Talk:2015 AFC Championship Game

Contested deletion
This article should not be speedy deleted as being recently created, having no relevant page history and duplicating an existing English Wikipedia topic, because this is the AFC Championship game and the NFL is performing an investigation on weather the Patriots deflated 11 of the 12 balls they used during the game --Michiganwolverines2014 (talk) 22:40, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Content should be merged to the DeflateGate article. There is growing consensus to keep and update that page, which results in this fork article frequently becoming out-of-sync and out-of-date. Zzyzx11 (talk) 19:00, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
 * The 2015 date in the title is also problematic. This results in the inconsistent naming conventions used by media and fans to dating the AFC Championship Game and the other NFL playoff games. This has caused Wikipedia articles take the form of XXXX–YY NFL playoffs as a compromise, such as 2014–15 NFL playoffs. In the 1970s and early 1980s, most of the playoff games were in December. Today, they are mostly held in January. As a result, a number of fans and media, for example, still consider the playoffs leading to Super Bowl XLIX (to determine the champion of the 2014 NFL season) as the 2014 playoffs, while others may call it the 2015 playoffs (because they are held in January-February 2015). Take our current 1995 AFC Championship Game article; there are citations that refer to it as the 1995 game despite the fact that it was played in January 1996. If I do a more extensive Google search, there would probably be an equally number of sources that use "2014 AFC Championship" and "2015 AFC Championship" to refer to this same Colts-Patriots "DeflateGate" game. Zzyzx11 (talk) 21:52, 24 January 2015 (UTC)