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The 2002 NFL season was the 83rd regular season of the National Football League (NFL). The league went back to an even number of teams with the addition of the Houston Texans; the league has remained static with 32 teams since. The clubs were realigned into eight divisions, four teams in each.
Since 2002, the league has consisted of 32 teams based across the United States. Each NFL season since 2021 has started with a three-week preseason in August, followed by the 18-week regular season which runs from early September to early January, with each team playing 17 games and having one bye week .
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.
This was featured on the NFL's Greatest Games as One Wild Finish, and was #4 on NFL Top 10's Top Ten Comebacks and was also #6 on NFL Top 10's Top Ten Controversial Calls for Rich Seubert's illegal man downfield call. [7] This was the seventh postseason meeting between the Giants and 49ers. Both teams had split the prior six meetings. [6]
The NFL playoffs kicked off on Saturday, Jan. 11 with the league's wild card weekend and will conclude on Feb. 9 with Super Bowl 59 in New Orleans. Below is a look at the schedule, scores and ...
The post-season schedule was moved back a week, including Super Bowl XXXVI (the NFL temporarily eliminated the bye week before the Super Bowl for the 2001 and 2002 after moving the start of the season back a week, leaving them with no choice but to push the game back a week after the earlier postponements.)
The six teams who have definitely qualified for the playoffs are: 1. Detroit Lions (15-2) - won NFC North 2. Philadelphia Eagles (14-3) - won NFC East 3. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (10-7) - won NFC South 4.
The 2002 Washington Redskins season was the franchise's 71st season in the National Football League, and their 66th representing Washington, D.C. They failed to improve on their 8–8 record from 2001, finishing at 7–9.