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The AFC West is a division of the National Football League's American Football Conference, currently comprising the Denver Broncos, San Diego Chargers, Kansas City Chiefs, and the Oakland Raiders.
The division has sent teams to the Super Bowl fourteen times beginning with Super Bowl I vs. Green Bay. The Raiders entering 2012 lead in Super Bowl wins with a 3-2 record; the Broncos presently are 2-4 in Super Bowls; the Chiefs are 1-1 while the Chargers went winless in Super Bowl XXIX, their lone Super Bowl appearance.
Entering 2012 the Raiders lead the division with a record of 426-351-11 and an overall playoff record of 25-18. The Broncos record is 406-372-10 with a playoff record of 18-16. The Chiefs record is 402-374-12 with a playoff record of 8-14. The Chargers record is 392-385-11 with a playoff record of 10-16.
The division was formed in 1960 as the American Football League's Western Division. In 1970, as part of the new NFL's two-conference, six-division alignment, the AFL West entered the merged league more or less intact as the AFC West.
AFC is an abbreviation that may refer to:
West is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography.
West is one of the four cardinal directions or compass points. It is the opposite of east and is perpendicular to north and south.
By convention, the left side of a map is west.
To go west using a compass for navigation, one needs to set a bearing or azimuth of 270°.
West is the direction opposite that of the Earth's rotation on its axis, and is therefore the general direction towards which the Sun sets.
During the Cold War "the West" was often used to refer to the NATO camp as opposed to the Warsaw Pact and non-aligned nations. The expression survives, with an increasingly ambiguous meaning.
Moving continuously west is following a circle of latitude, which, except in the case of the equator, is not a great circle.
The word west is derived from the name of one of the four dwarves in Norse mythology, Norðri, Suðri, Austri and Vestri, who each represented one of the directions of the world. cf Greek hesperus and Roman vesper.