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Despite San Francisco's 10–6 record, the NFC West title, and their Wild Card playoff win against the New York Giants, coach Steve Mariucci was fired three days after this game. The 49ers would not return to the playoffs until 2011. This was the first postseason meeting between the 49ers and Buccaneers. [6]
2002: 49ers 16–13: Giants Stadium 49ers 16–14 2002 playoffs 49ers 39–38 3Com Park 49ers 17–14 NFC Wild Card playoffs. 49ers overcome 38–14 deficit and the Giants botch last-second game winning field goal attempt, but controversially ended without an obvious pass interference against the 49ers being called. 2005: Giants 24–6: Monster ...
The 2002 San Francisco 49ers season was the team's 57th season, and 53rd in the National Football League (NFL) and the sixth and final under head coach Steve Mariucci.. The first season following divisional realignment, the 49ers won the new-look NFC West title with a 10–6 record; they swept their new division rivals, the Seattle Seahawks and the Arizona Cardinals while splitting with the St ...
The 2002 National League Division Series (NLDS), the opening round of the 2002 National League playoffs, began on Tuesday, October 1, and ended on Monday, October 7, with the champions of the three NL divisions—along with a "wild card" team—participating in two best-of-five series. The teams were:
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.
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.
Won Divisional Playoffs 24–23 Lost NFC Championship (at Redskins) 21–24 [40] 1984: 1984: NFL † NFC * West ^ 1st ^ 15 1 0 Won Divisional Playoffs 21–10 Won NFC Championship 23–0 Won Super Bowl XIX (2) (vs. Dolphins) 38–16 Joe Montana [41] [42] 1985: 1985: NFL NFC West 2nd # 10 6 0 Lost Wild Card Playoffs (at Giants) 3–17 [43] 1986: ...
The 2002 season was the New York Giants' 78th in the National Football League (NFL) and their sixth under head coach Jim Fassel.The team improved upon their 7–9 record from the previous season by three games and returned to the playoffs for the second time in three years, ending the season on a four-game winning streak. [1]