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The 2005 Pittsburgh Steelers–Indianapolis Colts playoff game was a National Football League (NFL) Divisional Round playoff game between the sixth-seeded Pittsburgh Steelers and the top-seeded Indianapolis Colts, taking place during the 2005–06 NFL playoffs at the RCA Dome in Indianapolis, Indiana on January 15, 2006.
The NFL does not use a fixed bracket playoff system, and there are no restrictions regarding teams from the same division matching up in any round. In the first round, dubbed the wild-card playoffs or wild-card weekend , the third-seeded division winner hosts the sixth-seed wild card, and the fourth seed hosts the fifth.
Four other teams have since won a playoff game despite a regular season record at or below .500. With the St. Louis Rams and Atlanta Falcons facing each other in the NFC Divisional playoffs, the St. Louis Rams became the first team in NFL history to face every team within their respective conference in the postseason at least once.
In the NFL's playoff format, the No. 1 seed in each conference is guaranteed a bye through the wild-card round, but their divisional round matchup is not a guaranteed meeting with the winner of a ...
The NFL playoffs are in full swing. The league wrapped up its wild-card weekend on Monday night with the Los Angeles Rams' blowout win over the Minnesota Vikings, which was relocated to Arizona ...
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.
The NFL's divisional round will see games played on both Saturday and Sunday. There will be two games played on each day, and the action will begin with the Chiefs vs. Texans game at 4:30 p.m. ET ...
The Steelers qualified for the playoffs as a wild-card team as the #6 seed and became just the second team ever (and the first in 20 years) to win three playoff games on the road after they beat the #3 seed Cincinnati Bengals (11–5), [1] the top-seeded Indianapolis Colts (14–2), [2] and the #2 seed Denver Broncos (13–3) to become the ...