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In 1982, the league held a 16-team tournament due to the players strike, which reduced the regular season to just 9 games. The playoffs expanded to 12 teams for the 1990 season, and again to 14 teams for the 2020 season, with an additional game added to this week in each year. Teams who later went on to win the Super Bowl that season are in bold.
Oakland was the first AFC Wild Card based on better conference record than Houston (9–3 to Oilers' 7–5). Kansas City finished ahead of Denver in the AFC West based on head-to-head sweep (2–0). Philadelphia finished ahead of Dallas in the NFC East based on better net points in division games (plus 84 net points to Cowboys' plus 50).
The 49ers and the Bengals, who faced off in Super Bowl XVI (pictured), would play each other again in Super Bowl XXIII. The following teams have faced each other more than once in the Super Bowl: [n 2] 3 times – Pittsburgh Steelers (X and XIII) vs. Dallas Cowboys see also Cowboys–Steelers rivalry
The Raiders defeated the Eagles by the score of 27–10, becoming the first wild card playoff team to win a Super Bowl. The game was played at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, on January 25, 1981, five days after the Iran hostage crisis ended. The game was thus held under patriotic fervor, as the pregame ceremonies honored the ...
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, since 2021, super wild-card weekend. In this round, the second-seeded division winner ...
After playoff victories against the Houston Oilers, Cleveland Browns, and San Diego Chargers, the Raiders went to Super Bowl XV, and clinched their second NFL championship in five years with a 27–10 win over the favored Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl XV. With the victory, the Raiders became the first ever wild card team to win a Super Bowl ...
Since those defensive personnel changes, the Ravens rank first in dropback success rate (from 46.3% allowed to 35.3%), first in EPA per dropback allowed (-.15), first in net yards per attempt (5.3 ...
They also became the first team to make the Super Bowl as a Wild Card team since the 2010 Green Bay Packers. [71] The Buccaneers became the first team to play and win a Super Bowl in its home stadium, and only the third to play in their home metro area (alongside the 1979 Los Angeles Rams and 1984 San Francisco 49ers). [72]