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The NFL does not use a fixed bracket playoff system, and there are no restrictions regarding teams from the same division matching up in any round. In the first round, dubbed the wild-card playoffs or wild-card weekend , the third-seeded division winner hosts the sixth-seed wild card, and the fourth seed hosts the fifth.
The 2009 season began on September 10, 2009. Under the current scheduling system, this is the latest date the NFL can start its season as the season typically starts the weekend after Labor Day, which falls on its latest possible date in 2009. For the 2009 season, the intraconference and interconference matchups were:
Wild Card playoffs: Divisional playoffs: Jan 9 – Paul Brown Stadium: N1 New Orleans: 31 Jan 17 – Qualcomm Stadium: A1 Indianapolis 17 5 NY Jets: 24 Super Bowl XLIV: 5 NY Jets 17 4 Cincinnati: 14 Jan 24 – Lucas Oil Stadium 2 San Diego: 14 AFC: Jan 10 – Gillette Stadium: 5 NY Jets 17 Jan 16 – Lucas Oil Stadium: 1 Indianapolis 30 6 ...
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 is a complete listing of National Football League (NFL) playoff games, grouped by franchise. Games featuring relocated teams [nb 1] are kept with their ultimate relocation franchises. Bolded years indicate wins. "(Years in italics)" indicate a pending playoff game. Tables are sorted first by the number of games, then the number of wins ...
The final eight teams alive in the 2009–10 NFL playoffs (Arizona, Dallas, Minnesota and New Orleans in the NFC; and Baltimore, Indianapolis, the New York Jets and San Diego in the AFC) were restricted in the free agents they could sign. [5] The issue of a CBA continued into the 2011 NFL season, affecting most of the off-season.
The NFC North dominates the rest of the conference’s playoff positions with the 11-2 Minnesota Vikings and 9-4 Green Bay Packers filing the No. 5 and No. 6 spots respectively.
The 2010 season was the Dallas Cowboys' 51st in the National Football League (NFL) and their second playing home games at Cowboys Stadium.After falling to the Minnesota Vikings in the divisional round of the 2009–10 NFL playoffs, the Cowboys sought to defend their NFC East division title and contend for a Super Bowl title, particularly given that Super Bowl XLV would be played at Cowboys ...