from 1972-79 a 8 year period, then played in 6 afc championship games, but from 1972-76 they only missed the afc championship in 1973.....is that a record for a afc team in the modern era, and if you figured in that they won 4 superbowl in 6 years...is that the greatest playoff run ever???
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IN THE 70'S STEELERS WAS THE BEST
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My old favourite team was the Redskins. Today, it's the Redskins. Yesteray, it was the Redskins. Tomorrow, it will be the Redskins. In 10 years and 20 years my favourite team will be the Redskins. 10 years ago and 20 years ago, my favourite team was the Redskins. It's not changing. Why are you fickle? Why not stick with one team?
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they dont have the worst record int he NFL. but youre right that they suck. obviously, they shouldnt have won the superbowl last year.
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How do they not deserve it? Of course they do. They won and thats all that matters. The only people who deserve to win are the ones who do. They went in as a last seed and beat every team that they faced on the road. I cant think of a single thing that makes them undeserving of a championship.\n\nBy the way, im not a Steelers fan, i just cant believe that anyone could think they didnt deserve to win the superbowl.
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The Houston Oilers were NEVER displaced. They were MOVED to Tennessee, that was the entire franchise. If you are thinking of the Texans, they have also never been displaced. As to the Saints last year they played in multiple places. Some of their games were at the LSU Tigers Stadium. The others, played where the team wanted, were in San Antonio. That was where the team moved to and had their work outs. Basically the team decides where they are going to. As to where they play I'm sure part of the NFL rules would give about the distance but I think with a displaced team that is basically waived.
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Same year as you 1969.  I was 13 as well.  It's interesting the year that we became fans because I'm a KC Chiefs fan.  The 1969 Chiefs played the Vikes in the 1970 Superbowl.  It's the last time the Chiefs appeared in a Superbowl.  You will recall that the Chiefs won that game.  I was so into it that I bought the Chiefs 1969 highlight album on vinyl (long before CDs were around).\n\nI'm a lucky man because my wife loves NFL football as much as I do.  We had season tickets for a 10 year stretch during the 1990s.  We eventually had to let them go after a business related transfer to St. Louis. The St. Louis Rams are now my adopted home team but the Chiefs will always be my favorite team.  I cheer for both except when they play each other.  Then it's, "Go Chiefs!!!"\n\nWhen the Vikes had Dennis Green as coach, it reminded me of when the Chiefs had Marty Schottenheimer as head coach.  Both could get you to the playoffs but never to the Superbowl. \n\nVikes are on hard times this year.  Back in the late 70s and 80s the Chiefs were terrible but I still pulled for them.  We never sold out during those days so the home games were never on TV.  Marty changed all that even though he never got us to the Superbowl.  I remember the first year we had tickets.  Opening game was against the Vikes.  It was early September and blazing hot.  Marty had not yet established a solid winning tradition so there was a bunch of available tickets in one endzone.  Almost all of them were bought up by Viking fans.  There were 10-12 thousand Viking fans that day and at times they were louder than the hometown fans.  It was embarrassing.  Chiefs fans made sure that scenario was never repeated in the games that followed.\n\nAnyway, I could drone on and on about football.  I've got to hit the sack.  We're getting up early to go see some college football; the Missouri Tigers vs. the hated Kansas Jayhawks.
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An NFC team has won only one of the last six superbowls.  It won't be any different this year.  I think that the Cowboys are probably the most complete team in the NFC right now, but they still don't stand much of a chance against the better AFC teams.  I think it will be Chargers 35, Cowboys 17.
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The question is "Which team won the Super bowl in 2003." Not "Who was the 2003 NFL Champion." The correct answer would  be Tampa Bay 48-21 over The Oakland Raiders to become the 2002 NFL Champions. The 2003 Patriots were crowned in 2004 as Champions for the 2003 season after beating Carolina 39-29.\nEagle fan here. Tried and true. I even have an Eagles mouse pad.
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Along with the divisional realignment before the 2002 season, a scheduling algorithm was set up to ensure that (a) every team would play every other team at least once every four years, and host every other team at least once every eight; and (b) teams in the same division and conference (who would compete with each other for playoff spots) would have schedules as similar as practical, to aid in determining tiebreakers.\n\nThe scheduling algorithm breaks down as follows:  Each team has a 16-game season - six divisional games, six conference games (outside their own division), and four inter-conference games.\n\nThe six divisional games consist of two against each division opponent, one home and one away.\n\nThe four inter-conference games consist of one game against each member of one division in the other conference, two home and two away.  The division pairings rotate in a four-year cycle; it was set up to get as many relevant inter-conference games played early in the cycle as possible.  By this, I mean that the AFC West was paired with the NFC West in the first year, so that Seattle (which had been moved to the NFC) would be "eased" out of its old division.  Similarly, the AFC South was paired with the NFC East, so that expansion Houston would host state-mate Dallas in its first year (actually, in its first ever regular-season game).\n\nAs for the six conference games, four of them are played against all of one other division, two home and two away; the divisions are rotated every three years for this purpose.  This year, both East divisions play every team in their conference's South division, and the Norths play the Wests.  The other two games are determined by order of finish, and are played against the teams in the other two divisions that finished in the same position, one home and one away.  For instance, Philadelphia finished fourth in the NFC East last year; their six conference games consist of the NFC South, and Green Bay (fourth in the North last year) and San Francisco (fourth in the West).\n\nI hope this helps.  Email me if you want the full division rotation.
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I think they are the best team in the NFL. One of my more favored teams and I hope they win the AFC championship game, and assuming they are not playing SF in the superbowl(which yeah I know SF isn't exactly a supebowl contender) I hope they take it all.
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What drugs are you taking?\n\nThey might go on a 7 game LOSING streak.\n-------------\nBill Cower is in his last year and he's CLEARLY lost interest.\n\nBig Ben is more beat up right now than Mike Tyson.\n\nThe defense is HORRIFIC.\n\nThe offensive line ought to be run out of town.\n--------------\n\nLook, you got REAL LUCKY winning that Super Bowl last year.\n\nFirst of all, you never should have got in the playoffs.\n\nThen (if you wouldn't have trashed Palmer's knee) Cincinnati should have beat you by 20.\n\nTo top it off, the referees apparently got together before the Super Bowl and decided to let you guys win no matter what.\n-----------------\n\nBe thankful for your Championship last season.\n\nIt won't happen again for a LONG LONG time!
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Yes, the Patriots have the worst record -- of the teams that won their divisions.  Winning a division trumps wild card teams no matter what the wild card team(s) record(s) (as a Steelers fan, that hurts).\n\nSo, the teams are seeded in each conference -- the four division winners and the two wild card teams (#5 and #6).  Each weekend the teams are re-seeded so that the lowest remaining seed always plays the highest remaining seed.
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I guess I don't understand....what happened to the Dallas Cowboys-Pittsburgh Steelers.  That rivalry was made in the 70's and never died.
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that sounds pretty good.  Except that I am a HARDCORE Peyton Manning/Indianapolis Colts fan and I think they are gonna be at least 14-2!  They're goin all the way!  It will be interesting to watch their division though.
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Yeah, these questions are always hard to answer, and I don't think it is possible to give a correct answer.\n\nCertainly, the Bears merit consideration, but what about the 1972 Dolphins?  What about the recent Patriot teams?  \n\nBest by wins and losses?  By which season's league rules?  \n\nSo many other questions.  What about the effects of performance enhancing drugs?  \n\nMy thought is that I would take today's athlete over any from previous decades, merely because of the advances in training technology and knowledge of the sport, such that a star of old is inherently disadvantaged when compared to the players of today.\n\nIt is very hard to make these comparisions.  So, I think the benchmark should be a relative comparison of how much better were they than the other teams in the league.  \n\nSo, I give the Patriots more credit in the fact that they had such a dominant team for 3 of 4 years, yet did so in a league in which parity dominates.  The salary cap and revenue sharing of today's NFL ensures that teams are on roughly an even footing.  Contrast this to baseball where the Royals $40 million payroll is expected to compete against the Yankees $200 million.  Is it any wonder why the Royals lost 106 games last season?\n\nSo, in my estimation, the Bears certainly could be considered one of the best teams ever, but it is all subjective.  It is much easier to say that they are probably one of the 5 best teams ever.
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The Dolphins beat the Bears? I knew they were winning 28-13, but I thought they would come back. Hot damn.............. How the heck did they pull that off against the best team in the league?
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I don't think the Colts are extremely lucky.  \n\nDo the Colts have as good of a team as last year?  I don't think they do.\n\nWill the Colts go farther than last year?  Yes, I think they will.\n\nWhy?  Normally teams that blow out teams all year long like the Colts did last year don't win the Super Bowl.  It's normally teams that win almost all of their games but barely win them all.  That's what the Colts are doing this year.  The defense is finally starting to step up and the Colts are slowly but surely starting to get their injured players back.  Consider this, the Colts are 9-0 with the Colts having to use the back-ups for the back-ups in many of the positions.  Can you imagine how good they will be when they get the starters back?\n\nAlso, the close games are partly due to the injuries and partly calculated.  The Colts mentality is to keep it close and win it at the end or get ahead and make the other team force passes to keep up.  So far it has worked and they are definitely showing that they know how to pull out the close games.  You have to know how to pull out the close games in the playoffs because most of them aren't going to be blow-outs.\n\nI think the Colts are probably one of the top contenders for the Super Bowl this year.  I think they learned the lessen that the Steelers did the year before they won the Super Bowl.  First, worry about making the playoffs, then getting home field advantage.  Then the rest of the season doesn't nearly matter as much as how you play in the play-offs, so be prepared.