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Probably 7 or 8 of the NFC championship games between 1984 and 1997.

I also went 3-3. With the Texans, Buccaneers and Vikings the teams I thought would advance but didn't. The Vikings offensive showing last night was... offensive. Troy Aikman's comment "Now Sam Darnold's easy throws look hard for him" (or something like that) summed it up.

The AFCs final 4 is identical to last year. I wonder when the last time that happened in a conference divisional round.

Chargers over Texans
Ravens over Steelers
Bills over Broncos
Eagles over Packers
Buccaneers over Commanders
Vikings over Rams

Chargers over Chiefs (I've got a feeling)
Bills over Ravens
Lions over Vikings
Eagles over Buccaneers

Bills over Chargers
Lions over Eagles

Lions over Bills

But was that the rule in 1990?

Hmmm. Possibly not? Under current rules that would have been the scenario.

With tomorrow night's Lions/Vikings matchup shaping up to potentially being a classic, I thought I'd start a discussion on the greatest games in league history... that happened to be regular season games. A few that quickly came to mind that I'll list in chronological order.... The 1932 "league...

Super quick off the top of my head guesses without looking anything up...
1) Preston Pearson
2) Roy Gerela
3) also Gerela?
4) Terry Bradshaw
5) Jerry Rice
6) Lynn Swann
7) Jake Scott
8-10) not touching these.

How was Houston the final wild card team over Seattle in 1990 when they each had 9-7 records and Seattle beat Houston head-to-head? Houston was 8-4 in AFC games and Seattle was 7-5, but wouldn't the head-to-head tiebreaker come first? Pittsburgh was also 9-7 so it came down to conference record. Ho...

6 tie games in a season by the 1932 Bears.

Same thing with Norm Van Brocklin's single-game passing record....that no one has broken it or really even come close is amazing to me.

That's been amazing to me for years now. That record is bound to fall sooner than later.