overall regular season records qualified for the playoffs. The NFL did not use a fixed-bracket playoff system. The three division winners were seeded 1–3...

January 15, 1978, at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. This was also the last season that the NFL used an eight-team playoff tournament...

drafted into the National Football League (NFL) since the league began holding drafts in 1936. This includes 79 players taken in the first round and three...

or Eli). The playoffs were also notable for the Patriots reaching a seventh consecutive AFC Championship Game, extending their own NFL record, and the...

broadcasting career with the Steelers—the second longest term with a single team in NFL history, he was accompanied by only two play-by-play announcers: Jack Fleming...

were extended to 30 feet above the crossbar. Starting in 1978, ten teams qualified for the playoffs: the winners of each of the divisions, and two wild-card...

of the warmest playoff seasons of all time. It was also the first time since 1969 that no California-based NFL team made the playoffs. For only the second...

the playoffs. The four division winners are seeded 1–4 based on their overall won-lost-tied record, and the wild card teams are seeded 5–6. The NFL does...

Super Bowl) In 1978, the NFL expanded its playoffs pool from 8 to 10 teams, requiring the addition of another round of playoffs. From 1978–1989, this round...

divisional round of the 1977–78 NFL playoffs to the same team. They finally beat the Vikings in the 1978–79 NFL playoffs. However, they lost again to the...