America ' s Game : The Super Bowl Champions America ' s Game : The Super Bowl Champions is an annual documentary series created by NFL Films ( broadcast on the NFL Network and CBS ) . Its 45 installments profile the first 45 winning teams of the National Football League ' s annual Super Bowl championship game ; each episode chronicles an individual team . A spin - off debuted on September 18 , 2008 , titled " America ' s Game : The Missing Rings " which chronicled five of the best teams to never win the Super Bowl . Format . " America ' s Game " weaves together archival NFL Films footage , videotape , audio clips , and interview s into a new program with new talking head style interviews from three or more of the winning team ( players , coaches , or administrators ) and narration from a celebrity . In instances of teams winning multiple Super Bowls closely together different people are interviewed for each episode . For example , though Bill Belichick coached the New England Patriots to three Super Bowls in four years ( 2001 , 2003 , and 2004 ) he was only interviewed for the episode on the 2004 team . However , Bill Curry was interviewed twice — as a member of the 1966 Green Bay Packers and the 1970 Baltimore Colts . Also , Joe Greene appeared twice - on the 1974 and 1978 Pittsburgh Steelers broadcasts . Ernie Accorsi and Rich Dalrymple are the only non - players or coaches to be interviewed for the series — both were team administrators . Of the " Blue Ribbon " top 20 teams , the San Francisco 49ers and Dallas Cowboys are represented most often as a franchise with three championship teams each . The Green Bay Packers , Pittsburgh Steelers , and Oakland / Los Angeles Raiders are each represented twice . According to Steve Sabol , president of NFL Films , only 20 teams were ranked instead of 40 because they feared negative mail from fans of the franchise whose team was ranked the lowest . Sabol stated that , while the panel chose the 1972 Dolphins as the # 1 team , several voters hedged and said Miami ' s unbeaten season was " the greatest team achievement . " Of the voting methods , Sabol said , " That ' s what I think people were voting on , rather than , ' Could this team beat the ' 85 Bears ? ' " Airing . For its initial airings the show was divided into two waves , with the first series being a weekly series counting down the top 20 winning teams , as selected by a 53 person panel of " Blue Ribbon " experts on the NFL . The first 18 episodes aired on the NFL Network beginning in November 2006 and the final two programs on CBS the day before Super Bowl XLI in February 2007 . The remaining 20 champions ' episodes aired during the NFL ' s off - season , February through April , before the 2007 season begins . The first episode of the remaining 20 champions aired on Thursday , February 8 , 2007 . The show began its run with a one - hour " preview special " at 8 : 30 p . m . Eastern time on November 17 , 2006 , followed by the first of the countdown shows the following week . The " official " premiere episode aired on November 24 , the day after the first live regular season game telecast on NFL Network . After some speculation on the future of the series , the 2006 Indianapolis Colts , winners of Super Bowl XLI had their episode air on September 5 , 2007 , one night before the season opener . The 2007 New York Giants also received an episode , signaling the series ' will be annually renewed at the beginning of the next NFL season ; the most recent episode , covering the 2010 Green Bay Packers , debuted on September 7 , 2011 . The Missing Rings . A spinoff series , " America ' s Game : The Missing Rings " , debuted on September 18 , 2008 and aired for five consecutive Thursdays after that , starting at 10 p . m . ET . In this series , the producers picked five teams that did not win the Super Bowl and devoted an hour to each of them . The basic format of the show was the same . However , it should be noted that the theme song cut off abruptly before the show started , symbolizing the unfinished goals of the teams being profiled . The teams chronicled were the 1998 and 1969 Minnesota Vikings , the 1988 Cincinnati Bengals , the 1981 San Diego Chargers , and the 1990 Buffalo Bills . Top twenty . " The following list compiles the top 20 Super Bowl teams , as determined by the experts . The teams listed below were revealed in countdown form in the weeks leading up to Super Bowl XLI . The first 18 episodes aired on the NFL Network , while the top two teams ' specials were shown on CBS on February 3 , the day before Super Bowl XLI . " Non - ranked episodes . " Beginning February 8 , the NFL Network began to broadcast the remaining twenty champions ' episodes . " The 2005 Steelers and teams onward were not eligible to be in the Top 20 as the voting was done prior to Super Bowl XL .