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The league was pleased with the results, and decided to revise its entire playoff schedule, beginning with the 2002 season. Wild Card and Divisional Saturday games continued to be played at 4:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. EST, as they had in the previous season. Sunday wild card and divisional playoff games were moved from 12:30 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. EST to ...
Beginning with the 1933 season, the NFL featured a championship game, played between the winners of its two divisions.In this era, if there was a tie for first place in the division at the end of the regular season, a one-game playoff was used to determine the team that would represent their division in the NFL Championship Game.
Denver Broncos (10-7), wild card No. 3: Third time was the charm as they finally secured the AFC's final wild-card berth, ending a nine-year postseason absence, by rolling over the Chiefs' backups ...
The only time such a scheduling conflict occurred was during Wild Card weekend in 1985 when only 10 teams qualified for the postseason and there were only two wild-card games. The 10-team system was used from 1978 to 1989 excluding 1982 (the 1982 NFL season used a 16-team playoff format). Instead of playing both Wild Card games on the same day ...
The 2001 NFC wild card game between the San Francisco 49ers and Green Bay Packers shares the title of the best wild card round matchup by record (along with the 1999 AFC Wild Card, between the 11-5 Buffalo Bills and 13-3 Tennessee Titans, and 2020 AFC Wild Card between the 11-5 Indianapolis Colts and 13-3 Buffalo Bills), with a combined mark of ...
The only way a wild card team could host a playoff game was if both teams in the conference's championship game were wild cards. This 2002 revised format lasted until 2019. In 2020, the number of playoff teams expanded to 14, and the number of wild card teams went back to three.
The Giants opened their 2002 season at home against the 49ers, in a preview of their infamous Wild Card game later that season. This was the first-ever Thursday night NFL season opener. The Giants led 6–3 at halftime, with new kicker Matt Bryant kicking field goals of 29 and 33 yards.
The easiest way for all four teams to make it is if they split the divisional games and win every other game. So, the Jets would need to beat the Patriots in Week 11, the Bills would need to beat ...