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A wild card (also wildcard or wild-card and also known as an at-large berth or at-large bid) is an invitation to a tournament or a playoff berth awarded to a team or individual that does not qualify via an automatic bid. In some events, wildcards are chosen freely by the organizers.
The names of the first two playoff rounds date back to the postseason format that was first used in 1978, when the league added a second wild-card team to each conference. The first round of the playoffs is dubbed the wild-card round, wild-card weekend, or, from 2020–21 to 2023–24, super wild-card weekend. [4]
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After 272 regular season games, we have the final 14 NFL teams vying to lift the Lombardi Trophy. Of those teams, 12 who qualified for the postseason will take to the field in the Wild Card round.
The NFL playoffs kick off on Saturday, Jan. 11 with the league's super wild-card weekend before concluding on Feb. 9 with Super Bowl 59 in New Orleans. Wild-card round All times Eastern
In 2002 the NFL added its 32nd team, the Houston Texans, and significantly reshuffled its divisional alignment. The league went from 6 division winners and 6 wild-card spots to 8 division winners and only 4 wild-card qualifiers; by 2020, the number of wild-card qualifiers returned to six. The winners of each division automatically earn a ...
“Super” wild-card weekend used to mean something. Putting the moniker – a loose exaggeration of “expanded,” since the number of playoff teams went from six in each conference to seven ...
Fox is also guaranteed an NFC Wild Card game annually. [53] NBC's Wild Card game airs on Sunday night, [55] [56] [57] while ESPN's Wild Card game airs on Monday night, with a simulcast on ABC and the Manningcast on ESPN2. [58] This was the first season Prime Video will exclusively stream a Wild Card game, purchasing the rights to the game that ...