High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1948 National Football League Championship game was the 16th NFL title game played. The game was a rematch of the previous year`s championship game between the Chicago Cardinals, champions of the Western Division and the Philadelphia Eagles, champions of the Eastern Division. It was the first NFL championship game to be televised. In the early days of television, "snow" was a frequent problem, but in this case the snow was real. The grounds crew needed the help of players from both teams to remove the tarp from the field, because of the heavy snowfall.