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1. This playoff team participated in the final game of the regular season on Sunday Night Football, winning a game against a divisional foe wherein the winner was guaranteed to be Division Champion.
Baltimore Ravens
Pittsburgh Steelers
San Francisco 49ers
New York Giants
 
2. Momentum? No, no-mentum! These two teams are backing their way into the postseason, each starting the playoffs on a three-game losing streak:
Houston and Cincinnati
Atlanta and Cincinnati
Denver and Houston
Detroit and Denver
 
3. Gronk play ball. Gronk catch ball. Gronk like end zone. Gronk take ball to end zone lots and lots. Who Gronk play ball for?
New York
New England
Atlanta
Bibi Jones
By way of explanation.....
Gronk!
 
4. Let's get divisional for a minute. The two #1 seeds for the playoffs represent the:
AFC East and NFC North
AFC North and NFC East
AFC South and NFC West
AFC West and NFC South
 
5. Meanwhile, the wild card teams represent each of the following divisions, except for:
NFC North
NFC South
AFC North
AFC South
 
6. If you guessed that only one division in the NFL fielded three playoff teams, you'd be right. If you guessed that this was that division, you'd be even more right:
AFC East
NFC South
NFC North
AFC North
By way of explanation.....
The AFC North's Ravens, Steelers and Bengals will all play past New Year's Day
 
7. The Megatron-fueled Lions return to the playoffs for the first time since the postseason following the _________ season
1999
1975
1995
1996
 
8. Each of these fields will see playoff action during the postseason. Which is the only venue that will host a wild card round contest?
Superdome
Gillette Stadium
Candlestick Park
M&T Bank Stadium
By way of explanation.....
The home fields of the Patriots, Niners and Ravens will all see action the second weekend
 
9. A team that earned a playoff birth will attempt to reach the Super Bowl to be played on its home field, right? Right??
Right, the Saints
Right, the 49ers
Right, the Texans
Wrong
By way of explanation.....
The Super Bowl will be played at Lucas Oil Stadium, home to the Colts, who narrowly missed the playoffs
 
10. As you might have heard - and if you didn't, Mercury Freaking Morris will be glad to tell you all about it - the Green Bay Packers fell one game short of being perfect. This non-playoff team upset them in a shocking result:
Kansas City
Washington
Minnesota
St. Louis
 
11. Outside of the Pack, this team went the longest into the season before its first loss:
Patriots
Lions
Saints
Ravens
 
12. This playoff team’s most famous defender went a little crazy on Thanksgiving and started stomping a defenseless offensive lineman. He was suspended two games, but the team managed to make the playoffs anyway.
San Francisco
Atlanta
Detroit
Pittsburgh
By way of explanation.....
*Never* debate Mr. Suh as to who was Britain's greatest Prime Minister. Take our word for it.
 
13. In addition to leading the league in passing, this team’s starting quarterback torched Dan Marino’s long-standing record for passing yards in a season.
New Orleans
Green Bay
New England
Atlanta
 
14. This team’s quarterback is the new Sammy Sosa (presumably without the steroids), as he also broke Dan Marino’s single season passing record, but finished second in the league for passing yardage.
New England
New Orleans
Green Bay
Baltimore
 
15. Arguably the league’s best free agent signing was this team’s acquisition of an all-purpose running back, who set the NFL record for total combined yards with 2,969.
New Orleans
Houston
Pittsburgh
Denver
 
16. Green Bay and New Orleans both had points differentials of over 200, meaning they totally crushed the competition. Which AFC team has the next highest total, with a point differential of 171?
Atlanta
Pittsburgh
New England
Houston
 
17. The #2 player in this past spring's draft was not the most publicized story on his own team, but he finished the season with an impressive 11 1/2 sacks nonetheless.
Green Bay
New England
Denver
Pittsburgh
 
18. This team finally got revenge on their divisional foe, who had ended their playoff run in two of the last three seasons by winning both of their 2011 games by a combined score of 58-27. They still probably don’t want to see that team in the playoffs, though.
Denver
New Orleans
Baltimore
San Francisco
 
19. This team didn’t give up a rushing touchdown until their 15th game of the season, making them the first NFL team in history not to allow a rushing touchdown in their first 14 games.
Baltimore
Denver
Atlanta
San Francisco
 
20. Which of these playoff teams did *not* have a starting quarterback who threw for 5,000+ yards this season?
Detroit
Green Bay
New England
New Orleans
By way of explanation.....
Consider for a minute that, if Rodgers had not rested during Green Bay's final game, we very well could have had *4* 5,000 yard passers this season
 
21. Of the playoff teams listed below, which one ended the regular season on the longest winning streak?
Baltimore
San Francisco
New England
Green Bay
 
22. New England was the correct answer for the previous question, natch. Bbut do you know how many consecutive victories New England has going into the playoffs?

Hint: it's the same number of consecutive victories that New Orleans, which wasn't listed as an option, had at the end of the season....
9
10
8
7
By way of explanation.....
The Pats last lost on November 6th against the Giants...and no one's beaten Saints since their October 30th game against the....Rams? Really? Huh.
 
23. This team’s unlikely path to the playoffs included competing in the same division against a pair of 12-4 teams and featuring an offense led by rookies at quarterback and wide receiver.
Houston
Detroit
Cincinnati
San Francisco
 
24. If adversity defines a team, perhaps no playoff team is better prepared than this one, which lost their starting quarterback and backup quarterback for the season in consecutive games, forcing them to use an unheralded rookie, who himself was injured early in the final game of the season.
New York
Houston
Cincinnati
Denver
By way of explanation.....
Gary Kubiak definitely achieved Mad Scientist status, somehow Frankenstein-ing his team together to make the playoffs
 
25. This team took the unusual step of not only benching its starting quarterback, but also releasing him with several games remaining. This decision came back to haunt them when he led his new team to victory in the final game of the season.
Denver
Detroit
New Orleans
San Francisco
By way of explanation.....
What does Brady Quinn have to say about all of this? What, we beseech you, what???
 
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