Who Is Still Left In The Nfl Playoffs?
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The NFL playoffs are down to the final four teams. Who is still left in the running for the Super Bowl?
AFC
The Baltimore Ravens are currently the number one seed in the AFC. They have a record of 12-2 and are looking like they could make a run at the Super Bowl. The New England Patriots are also still in the playoffs and are the number two seed. They have a record of 11-3 and are always a tough team to beat.
Baltimore Ravens
The Baltimore Ravens are a professional American football team based in Baltimore, Maryland. They compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league’s American Football Conference (AFC) North division. The Ravens were established in 1996, when Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell hired Ted Marchibroda as the head coach of his new team in Baltimore.
Buffalo Bills
The AFC has four teams left in the NFL playoffs: the Baltimore Ravens, Buffalo Bills, Kansas City Chiefs, and New England Patriots. Of those four teams, the Bills have the least experience in the playoffs. In fact, their last playoff game was in 1995. They lost that game to the Pittsburgh Steelers, who went on to win the Super Bowl.
Houston Texans
The Houston Texans are a professional American football team based in Houston, Texas. The Texans compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (AFC) South division. The team plays its home games at NRG Stadium, a stadium it shares with the National League of Professional Baseball’s (NL) Houston Astros, and the National Hockey League’s (NHL) Houston Oilers.
The Texans were established in 2002 as the Houston Texans after the NFL awarded the city of Houston an expansion team following the suspension of operations for the city’s previous franchise, the Houston Oilers, who had moved to Nashville, Tennessee and became the Tennessee Titans two years earlier. The team’s majority owner is Bob McNair.
Kansas City Chiefs
The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Chiefs compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league’s American Football Conference (AFC) West division. The team was founded in 1960 as the Dallas Texans by businessman Lamar Hunt and was a charter member of the American Football League (AFL). In 1963, the team moved to Kansas City and assumed their current name. The Chiefs joined the NFL as a result of the AFL–NFL merger in 1970. The team is valued at over $2 billion. Hunt’s son, Clark, serves as chairman and CEO
New England Patriots
The New England Patriots are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston metropolitan area. The Patriots compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league’s American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The team plays its home games at Gillette Stadium in the town of Foxborough, Massachusetts, which is located 28 miles (45 km) southwest of downtown Boston.
Pittsburgh Steelers
The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Steelers compete in the National Football League (NFL), as a member club of the league’s American Football Conference (AFC) North division. Founded in 1933, the Steelers are the oldest franchise in the AFC.
In contrast with their status as perennial also-rans in the pre-merger NFL, where they were the oldest team never to win a league championship, the Steelers of the post-merger era are one of the most successful NFL franchises. Since the advent of free agency in 1993, they have been characterized by consistent excellence and have captured six Lombardi Trophies—tying them for second place with their chief rivals, the New England Patriots; behind only Green Bay , who have thirteen trophies. They have had more winning seasons (by far) and made more playoff appearances than any other franchise since 1970 . They have won 8 AFC Championships — tying them with Denver for seventh place all-time—and played in 15 NFL Championship Games going 11–4 .
NFC
The National Football Conference (NFC) playoff picture is pretty clear heading into Week 17. The New Orleans Saints have clinched the top spot and home-field advantage throughout the playoffs. The Los Angeles Rams have clinched a first-round bye. And the Chicago Bears have clinched the NFC North. That leaves two spots up for grabs in the conference.
Dallas Cowboys
The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team representing the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The Cowboys compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league’s National Football Conference (NFC) East division. They are headquartered in Arlington, Texas, and play their home games at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, which opened for the 2009 season. The stadium took the place of the partially demolished Texas Stadium, which served as the Cowboys’ home ballpark from 1971–2008.
Green Bay Packers
The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Packers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league’s National Football Conference (NFC) North division. It is the third-oldest franchise in the NFL, dating back to 1919, and is the only non-profit, community-owned major league professional sports team based in the United States. Home games have been played at Lambeau Field since 1957.
The Packers are regulated by a board of directors led by Mark Murphy, president and CEO of the Packers Corporation since December 2008. A general manager (GM) oversees the team’s football operations; their GM has complete control over player acquisitions and contract negotiations. Mike McCarthy has served as head coach since 2006; he was fired on December 2, 2018 and replaced by interim coach Joe Philbin for the final two regular season games before Matt LaFleur was hired as head coach on January 8, 2019.
Los Angeles Rams
The Los Angeles Rams are a professional American football team that competes in the National Football League (NFL). The Rams franchise was founded in 1936 as the Cleveland Rams in the short-lived second American Football League before joining the NFL the next year. In 1946, the franchise moved to Los Angeles. The Rams franchise remained in the metro area until 1994, when they moved to St. Louis. The Rams franchise returned to Los Angeles in 2016.
The Rams organization has won three NFL championships, and is the only one to win championships representing three different cities (Cleveland in 1945, Los Angeles in 1951, and St. Louis in 1999). The Rams have been divisional champions or have qualified for playoffs fourteen times since 1937, including eight seasons where the team had a winning record (1939–1941, 1949 filled by a playoff loss because of a tiebreaker, 1973–1976, 1979 fill by a playoff loss because of a tiebreaker, 1985 division title as a wild card because of strike-shortened season, 2017 division title which was their first since 1969 realigned divisional play and 2018 division title).
Minnesota Vikings
The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Vikings joined the National Football League (NFL) as an expansion team in 1960, and first took the field for the 1961 season. The team competes in the National Football Conference (NFC) North division.
New Orleans Saints
The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Saints currently compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league’s National Football Conference (NFC) South division. The Saints were founded by John W. Mecom Jr., David Dixon, and the city of New Orleans on November 1, 1966. The team played their home games at Tulane Stadium through the 1974 NFL season. They moved to the new Louisiana Superdome (now Mercedes-Benz Superdome) for the 1975 season.
Seattle Seahawks
The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football team based in Seattle, Washington. They compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league’s National Football Conference (NFC) West division.
Super Bowl
The NFL playoffs are down to the final four teams. In the AFC, the top-seeded Kansas City Chiefs will take on the fifth-seeded Buffalo Bills. In the NFC, the second-seeded Green Bay Packers will face off against the sixth-seeded Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Who will be in the Super Bowl?
At this point in the NFL playoffs, there are four teams left vying for a chance to play in the Super Bowl.
In the AFC, the New England Patriots and the Baltimore Ravens are set to face off in the conference championship game.
And in the NFC, the New Orleans Saints will take on the Los Angeles Rams.
So, who will be playing in the big game? We’ll have to wait and see!
Who will win the Super Bowl?
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC). The NFL is one of the four major North American professional sports leagues, the highest professional level of American football in the world, the wealthiest professional sport league by revenue, and the sport league with the most valuable teams. The Super Bowl is the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL). The game is the culmination to a regular season that begins in the late summer of the previous calendar year. Normally, Roman numerals are used to identify each game, rather than the year in which it is held. For example, Super Bowl XLVII was played at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on February 2, 2014. It was be nationally televised on CBS.
