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The NFL did not use a fixed-bracket playoff system. The three division winners were seeded 1–3 based on their overall won-lost-tied record, and received a first-round bye while the wild card teams were seeded 4 and 5, and played in the first round, dubbed the wild-card playoffs or wild-card weekend, with the 4 seed hosting.
The 1986 NFL season was the 67th regular season of the National Football League.Defending Super Bowl Champion Chicago Bears shared the league's best record with the Giants at 14–2, with the Giants claiming the spot in the NFC by tiebreakers.
Divisional playoffs: Wild Card playoffs: A2 Denver 20 Jan 3 – Soldier Field: N1 NY Giants 39 Super Bowl XXI: 4 Washington 27 Dec 28 – RFK Memorial Stadium: Jan 11 – Giants Stadium 2 Chicago: 13 NFC: 5 LA Rams: 7 4 Washington 0 Jan 4 – Giants Stadium 4 Washington: 19 1 NY Giants 17 NFC Championship: 3 San Francisco: 3 1 NY Giants: 49 *
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.
1986–87 NFL playoffs; 1987 Pro Bowl; S. Super Bowl XXI This page was last edited on 14 April 2024, at 19:38 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
The Bears' defense became the third defense in the history of the NFL to lead the league in fewest points allowed and fewest total yards allowed for two consecutive seasons. [3] The Bears' 187 points allowed is the fewest surrendered by any team in the 1980s (other than the strike-shortened 1982 season ) – even fewer than the 198 points the ...
The 1986 Cleveland Browns season was the team’s 37th season with the National Football League. The death of Don Rogers , a promising young defensive back who was preparing to enter his third season in the NFL, cast a black cloud over the team as it prepared for the 1986 season.
The 1986 San Francisco 49ers season was the franchise's 37th season in the National Football League and their 41st overall. The team returned to the top of the NFC West after a one-year absence, and lost in the divisional playoffs to the Giants, by a score of 49-3, possibly the biggest playoff loss suffered by the 49ers in the history of their franchise.