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The Giants, the NFC's #5 seed, became just the second NFC wild card team ever to win a conference championship (the 1975 Dallas Cowboys being the other) and the third team ever (and first NFC team) to reach the Super Bowl with three road playoff wins (joining the 1985 New England Patriots and the 2005 Pittsburgh Steelers.
For the second straight year, the No. 1 seed in the NFC lost in the divisional round as the Cowboys lost to the Giants in the 2007 playoffs. The top seed had advanced to the NFC Championship Game every year from 1988 to 2006. The Eagles also became the third No. 6 seed to advance to the conference championship game and first in the NFC.
The 2008 NFL season was the 89th regular season of the National Football League (NFL), themed with the slogan "Believe in Now.". Super Bowl XLIII, the league's championship game, was at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, on February 1, 2009, [2] with the Pittsburgh Steelers coming out victorious over the Arizona Cardinals and winning their NFL-record sixth Vince Lombardi Trophy.
This is a template that was created to easily update every article with the 2008 NFC standings. The teams should be sorted according to the NFL tiebreaking rules, as indicated by such reliable sources as CBS Sports' playoff picture page (the conference standings page on NFL.com are usually not accurate on this issue because they normally do not sort them by ALL the tiebreaking rules until the ...
The next season, both the Packers and Seahawks failed to reach the playoffs, with both teams having losing records. [25] The 2008 season was the first for Aaron Rodgers as the Packers starting quarterback and they would go on to finish at 6–10, while the Seahawks went 4–12, which ended up being the last year under head coach and general ...
DAL win: NFC East Champions PHI win: Clinch playoff berth, NFC East lead, NO clinches first-round bye [17] 17 Sunday December 31* Green Bay Packers: 26–7: Chicago Bears: Soldier Field: Bears–Packers rivalry [18] Wild Card Saturday January 6 Kansas City Chiefs: 8–23: Indianapolis Colts: RCA Dome: AFC No. 6 vs. AFC No. 3 [19] Dallas Cowboys ...
Here's a look at the NFC East standings as the playoff race heats up. NFL STATS CENTRAL: The latest NFL scores, schedules, odds, stats and more. NFC East standings. Before the season started, it ...
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.