NFL Playoffs

73 points against the Washington Redskins in the 1940 NFL title game. The Bears defeated the Redskins, 73-0. The 73 points is the most points scored in a regular season or playoff game in NFL history.

The 2010 Raiders won all 6 of their division games. Not only did they miss the playoffs, they still managed to finish 3rd in their own division. The 9-7 Chargers finished 2nd and also missed the playoffs.

In the simplest terms, the club with the better regular season record (their win-loss percentage) receives home field advantage (I want to say this has been the case since 1975). Which means that a wild-card team will never play at home in the first or second round of the playoffs because they always face a higher ranked team. For that matter, it is unlikely they will host any playoff game, unless the fifth and sixth seeded teams (the two wild-card teams) were to end up playing each other for the conference championship.

Here is a lot more information from NFL.com dealing with tiebreakers (used to determine home field at the end of the season). It might look a little overwhelming, but most of the rules are never needed (as you'll read, technically a coin toss could decide venue, but that's pretty unlikely). Enjoy.

http://www.nfl.com/standings/tiebreakers

Well, its not the team with the better record that plays at home on wildcard weekend, but the team that won their division. A #4 seed will have home field advantage over a wildcard 5 seed, even if the 5 seed had a better record, as happened in the wildcard game between the patriots and jaguars during wildcard weekend 2006, for the 2005 season.

The term "wild card round" is somewhat of a misnomer. In the first round of the playoffs, there are two divisional champions and two wild card teams. The highest-seeded division champion hosts the lowest-seeded wild card team, and the other division winner hosts the other wild card team.

The winners of these games go on to play two more division winners -- the top two seeds in each conference, who earned a "bye" and got to skip to the second round of the playoffs. Once again, the highest seeded division winner plays the lowest remaining seed.

There is no rule for how many wins are needed to be in the playoffs. The more wins the better but, the team only needs to be a division leader and therefore automatically given a playoff spot.

The teams that are playing in the NFL playoffs are colts, chargers, titans, steelers, ravens, dolphins, eagles, vikings, falcons, cardinalds, giants, and the panthers.

The Steelers have been in the AFC championship game 15 times.

Detroit Lions

The Rochester Royals and the Indianapolis Olympians hold the record with 6 OT's played in 1951 (pre shot clock)

the shot clock era record is 5 played by the Bucks and Sonics in 1989 (dale Ellis set the single game minutes played record in this game with 69)

bq Lakers 103-98 ...

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Jaguars vs Browns 11/21/10

The Jaguars won that game after handing the ball over 6 times. The Browns only made a combined 3 points from the turnovers.

Yes. The only team in the NFL to ever go undefeated and untied in division play without making the playoffs was the 2010 Oakland Raiders, who finished the year third in the AFC West division (and out of the playoffs) at 8-8-0, despite going 6-0-0 in division play.

for the super bowl XLI apearence 2006-2007... playoffs:

bye weeks for playoffs:AFC byes:ravens,chargers

NFC byes:saints,bears

AFC wlid cards:23-8 colts over chiefs,patriots over the jets 37-16

NFC wild cards:seattle over dallas 21-20,eagles over giants 23-20

AFC Div. playoffs:colts over Baltimore 15-6,patriots over chargers 24-21

NFC Div. playoffs:saints over eagles 27-24,bears over seattle 24-27 (OT)

AFC champ title:colts over patriots

NFC champ title:bears over saints

superbowl XLI:17-29 as colts defeat bears

In a non-strike season prior to 2010 no team below .500 has made the playoffs.

In 1982, a strike wiped out 7 games of the regular season and the NFL decided to allow 8 teams from each conference to make the playoffs in the hopes that the owners could recoup some of the lost money. Both the Cleveland Browns and Detroit Lions made the playoffs with a record of 4-5 and lost in the first round.

I dont think they get anything. They already have a contract. I think it just helps them get re-signed.

Tampa Bay in the 2005 season (January 6, 2006).

The most playoff wins in NFL history is 33. There are two teams tied for wins and they are the Dallas Cowboys (1967-2009) and the Pittsburgh Steelers (1972-2010).

As of the start of the 2008 season:

In the NFL, the record is 73 scored by the Chicago Bears in a game against the Washington Redskins in the 1940 NFL championship game. The score was 73-0. The regular season record is 72 by the Washington Redskins in a game against the New York Giants in 1967. The final score of that game was 72-41.

In college football, the record is 222 scored by Georgia Tech in a game against Cumberland College in 1916. Georgia Tech won the game 222-0.

List of "cold" weather cities that have hosted the Super Bowl: Pontiac, Michigan - Pontiac Silverdome - Super Bowl XVI - Jan 24, 1982 Minneapolis, Minnesota - Metrodome - Super Bowl XXVI - Jan 26, 1992 Detroit, Michigan - Ford Field - Super Bowl XL - Feb 5, 2006

According to Bleacherreport.com per jersey sales the most popular are :

1. Tim Tebow

2. Donovan McNabb

3. Ladanian Tomlinson

4. Drew Brees

5. Tony Romo

6. Peyton Manning

7. Brett Farve

8. Ndamakong Suh

9. Sam Bradford

10. Troy Polamanu

But a recent poll of the 3rd week of July 2010 asked people who their favorite athletes were :

1. Kobe Bryant and Tiger Woods tied for first. 3.Derek Jeter.4 Farve. 5.Manning

Terry Bradshaw had 14 playoff wins. 1972 (1 win), 1974 (3 wins), 1975 (3 wins), 1976 (1 win), 1978 (3 wins) and 1979 (3 wins).

As of the 2009 season, the Eagles have appeared in 6 NFC Championship Games:
Season - Score of Game
1980 - Eagles 20, Cowboys 7
2001-02 - Rams 29, Eagles 24
2002-03 - Buccaneers 27, Eagles 10
2003-04 - Panthers 14, Eagles 3
2004-05 - Eagles 27, Falcons 10
2008-09 - Cardinals ,Eagles

The NFL teams with the most playoff appearances are: 56 Playoff Games

Dallas Cowbois: 1966-1973, 1975-1983, 1985, 1991-96, 1998-99, 2003, 2006-07 47 Playoff Games

Pittsburgh Steelers: 1947, 1972-79, 1982-84, 1989, 1992-97, 2001-02, 2004-05, 2007 43 Playoff Games (3 way tie)

-Oakland/L.A. Raiders: 1967-70, 1972-77, 1980, 1982-85, 1990-91, 1993, 2000-02

-St. Louis Rams (Includes Cleveland and LA records): 1945, 1949-1952, 1955, 1967, 1969, 1973-1980, 1983-86, 1988-89, 1999-2001, 2003-04

-N.Y. Giants: 1933-35, 1938-39, 1941, 1943-44, 1946, 1950, 1956, 1958-59, 1961-63, 1981, 1984-86, 1989-90, 1993, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2005-07

During the 2006 season, when the Colts won the Super bowl. The colts beat them in the wildcard round. 23-8.

The NFL team that has been to the playoffs the highest number of times is the New York Giants, with 32 times. They have made it to the Superbowl 5 times, and won 4 times out of those five. Their wins were Superbowl XXI against the Denver Broncos, Superbowl XXV against the Buffalo Bills, Superbowl XXXVI against the New England Patriots, and Superbowl XLVI against the Patriots.