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It was the last Wild Card Sunday of the esteemed 5-teams-per-conference-getting-in era that started in '78. And the NFL's two Pennsylvania teams each played on that very day. It was the first time in ten years ('79) that both Keystone State teams were in the playoffs. The first game was Robinson's R...

What I should have mentioned OP is my wishing that both these teams never moved into a dome thus making the 'black and blue' division all the more just that! Just imagine this upcoming showdown at that old, grizzled future-Mall of America site! Nighttime which would make it even MORE-so frozen tund...

It was said on one of the sports-talk shows today about how the 14-1 Forty Niners in '84 actually played all their starters in the finale against the Rams. They put it on the line, risked injury, for a 15-1 finish! It's not as if its today where only the top-seed gets a bye and some team was hot on ...

Here are all the rest. Excuse any omissions. To avoid it being a very long list, I separated them into groups based on how many regular season games at the time, ultimately lumping everything else, '34-and-prior, together. The only team that lost a meaningless finale, making it two losses overall, a...

Yes, you'd think it would have been down to allowing their heads-up match to decide. Especially with Pittsburgh, also 9-7, out of the way with a 6-6 conference record! Knox messed up those first 3 games by going with, of all things, the run and shoot! They go 9-4 from there, beat the Bengals convinc...

What I should have mentioned OP is my wishing that both these teams never moved into a dome thus making the 'black and blue' division all the more just that! Just imagine this upcoming showdown at that old, grizzled future-Mall of America site! Nighttime which would make it even MORE-so frozen tundr...

Not too many simultaneous good seasons with these two. Minny was of course the 'newbie' at first upon entering the League in '61, but they since their existence have always been together with the Lions - and da Bears & Packers - in the same division. It's not like the Bucs or Cards being '5th wh...

I'll start off with the 14-game era before either myself or someone else goes into the 12-game era, and so on. In backwards chronological order - correct/forgive me if I'm missing any - we got the '76 Raiders, '72 Dolphins, '69 Raiders*, '68 Colts, '67 Colts**, '67 Rams**, '67 Raiders, '63 Bears**, ...

good time to talk about the stats being "per schedule game" or "per fame" -- prefer the former 17-game seasons, 16 game seasons ... 14, 12, 10 only way to smooth it is to go away for "season" but would make things a little fairer then the argument is the eras and and t...

If the Chiefs three-peat in February, then you put them in 4th beneath da Bears, Forty Niners, and Patriots. If they go out in their first game, then place they and the Packers together. Washington's last World Championship in '91 should be honorably invited in this given they were 14-1 going into a...