Wild Card teams that won the Super Bowl
4th December 2023
Introduction
The National Football League has allowed “at-large” non-divisional winner to gain entrance in the conference playoff tournament since the 1970 season. When the League expanded the regular season from 14 to 16 games for each team, the amount of Wildcards from each conference increased from one to two. In 1990, the NFL bumped that number to three from the AFC and NFC. These teams have come to be known as the Wildcards, and though they are not the odds-on favorites of the postseason, they have the same chance that other teams in the playoffs have.
This article will examine the most successful Wild Card entrants of the last half a century as they came from the bottom of the playoff seeding to win the Super Bowl.
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