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In the strike-shortened 1982 season, the Falcons made the playoffs but lost to the Minnesota Vikings, 30 24.
On December 21, 2008, Atlanta beat the Minnesota Vikings 24 17 to clinch a wild card spot, earning a trip to the playoffs for the first time since 2004.
Gailey led the team to two playoff appearances with a 10 6 record in 1998 and an NFC East championship, but the Cowboys were defeated in the playoffs by the Arizona Cardinals 20-7 ; after an 8 8 season in 1999 ( during which Irvin suffered a career-ending spinal injury in a loss to the Philadelphia Eagles ) ending in another playoff loss ( this time to the Minnesota Vikings 27-10 ), he was fired and became the first Cowboys coach who did not take the team to a Super Bowl.
There were also five teams which the Texans had never beaten: the Baltimore Ravens ( 0-5 in regular season, 0-1 in playoffs ), Minnesota Vikings ( 0-2 ), New York Jets ( 0-5 ), Philadelphia Eagles ( 0-3 ) and San Diego Chargers ( 0-4 ).
However, the Vikings lost to the Dallas Cowboys in the playoffs, 17 14, on a controversial touchdown pass from the Cowboys ' quarterback Roger Staubach to wide receiver Drew Pearson that became known as the Hail Mary.
By, age was taking its toll on the Vikings, but they still made the playoffs with an 8 7 1 record.
Following the strike-shortened 1987 season, the 8 7 Vikings, who had finished 8 4 in regular games but 0 3 using strike-replacement players, pulled two upsets in the playoffs by beating the two teams with the best regular season records.
Nonetheless, the Vikings made the playoffs for the fifth straight year.
Tice was named the permanent coach after the season, but he would not lead the Vikings back to the playoffs until 2004.
During the 2003 season, the Vikings came close to getting into the playoffs.
However, the Arizona Cardinals completed a game winning touchdown on 4th and 28 with 0: 00 left knocking the Vikings out of the playoffs.
The Vikings became the second team in football history to miss the playoffs after getting off to a 6 0 start.
Despite a strong push in the middle of the 2007 season, winning five straight games, the Vikings lost their final two games to finish the season at 8 8, missing the playoffs.
In 1987, they finished 12-3 ( their first-ever winning season ) and made the playoffs for the first time in franchise history, but lost to the Minnesota Vikings 44-10.
In his first year, he took the team to the 2001 playoffs but lost to the Minnesota Vikings a week after beating the St. Louis Rams for the team's first ever playoff win.
They posted an 11-3 record during the 1971 regular season before defeating the Minnesota Vikings and the San Francisco 49ers in the playoffs.
The Vikings ' other loss was in week 12 to the Cincinnati Bengals, whom the Dolphins defeated in the AFC divisional playoffs.
The Vikings earned their second appearance in the Super Bowl after defeating the wild card Washington Redskins, 27-20, and the NFC Eastern Champion Dallas Cowboys 27-10, in the playoffs.
The Vikings were led by quarterback Fran Tarkenton and the Purple People Eaters defense ; they advanced to their second consecutive Super Bowl and third overall after finishing the regular season with a 10-4 record and defeating the St. Louis Cardinals and the Los Angeles Rams in the playoffs.
The Vikings went on to dominate the Washington Redskins, 35 20, and defeat the Los Angeles Rams, 24 13, in the playoffs.
The Cowboys earned their second trip to the Super Bowl in three years by defeating the Chicago Bears, 37-7, and the Minnesota Vikings, 23-6, in the playoffs.
The Eagles advanced through the playoffs, defeating the Minnesota Vikings, 31-16, and the Dallas Cowboys, 20 7.
The Vikings barely made the playoffs with an 8-7 record during the strike-shortened regular season, but advanced to the NFC championship by winning on the road against the teams with the best records in the NFL, defeating the 12-3 New Orleans Saints, 44-10, and the 13-2 San Francisco 49ers, 36-24.
On January 15, 1983, during the second round of the playoffs against the Minnesota Vikings, John Riggins rushed for a Redskins playoff record 185 yards, leading Washington to a 21 7 win and a place in the NFC Championship Game against Dallas, whom they beat 31 to 17.

playoffs and rolled
The Flyers rolled through the playoffs by sweeping the Rangers in three games, defeating the Islanders in five, and beating Quebec in six to return to the Stanley Cup Finals.
However, by the time the playoffs rolled around, Duncan was ready to return.
The Junior Wings rolled through the first two rounds of the playoffs, sweeping the London Knights and Peterborough Petes.
They rolled through the playoffs defeating Albany in five games, Wilkes-Barre / Scranton in five, and won the Eastern Conference in a sweep of Manchester.
As with many of the Islanders of the early 1980s, those instincts seemed to be more in tune when the playoffs rolled around.

playoffs and past
Bossy, who had scored 17 goals in each of the past three playoffs only scored 8 in the first three rounds of the 1984 playoffs and was silenced during the final series.
The Islanders barely squeezed past the Panthers to make the 1994 playoffs before being swept in a lopsided opening series by the first-place Rangers, who went on to win the Cup.
The Rangers successfully made it past the first two rounds of the playoffs, sweeping the New York Islanders, and then defeating the Washington Capitals in five.
Heading into the playoffs, the Flyers squeaked past Toronto in seven games and defeated Boston in five games, Game 5 featuring a five-goal outburst by Leach, the Riverton Rifle, to head to a third straight appearance in the Stanley Cup Finals.
Miller and Rik Smits both made the All-Star team that year, and in the playoffs, the Pacers breezed past the Cleveland Cavaliers and New York Knicks before falling to the Chicago Bulls in an epic seven-game Eastern Conference Final.
In the next seven seasons, plagued by injury including to Sampson who would be traded in 1988, they lost in the first round of the playoffs five times, until finally advancing in 1993 past the L. A. Clippers and battle the rival Seattle SuperSonics to the bitter end before falling short in an overtime Game 7.
They did not reach the playoffs again until they drafted Yao Ming and they did not advance past the first round of the playoffs again until 2009.
Using the past year's Finals defeat as motivation, the team won the Pacific Division for the fourth straight year and lost just twice in the Western Conference playoffs.
The club made regular appearances in the national playoffs through the early 1900s, but were unable to progress past Eintracht Braunschweig, planting the seeds of a rivalry that has survived to this day.
The Suns — defeated by the Spurs in three of the past four seasons of playoffs — were out for revenge and featured a new player in four-time NBA champion Shaquille O ' Neal.
The following season, the squad made the playoffs, but failed to advance past the first round.
The Stars were unable to advance past the first round of the playoffs in both seasons that they qualified.
Whenever they did make the playoffs, they faced the near-certainty of having to get past the Boston Bruins or Montreal Canadiens to make it to the conference finals.
Recently, the Mounties have made the playoffs three times in the past five years ( 2007, 2008 & 2010 ).
Despite making the playoffs eight times in the past 11 years, the 2007 season was the only one in which Guelph won any of their post-season games.
In the playoffs, Belfour won duels against past Vezina-and Stanley Cup-winning goaltenders Grant Fuhr and Patrick Roy, respectively.
Ever since they lost to the Austin Toros in the 2009 NBA Development League Playoffs, they've never returned to the playoffs, with a 70-80 record for the past three seasons.
His appearance with the Flyers in the 1997 Stanley Cup Finals marked the only time any of his teams advanced past the second round of the playoffs.
In his past two seasons with the Kings, he has missed the playoffs both times, marking the 2003 04 postseason as his last playoff appearance.
Due to the way the playoffs were structured at the time, he also faced the near-certainty of having to get past his former team in order to make the conference finals.
Bossy, who had scored 8 goals after the first three rounds of the playoffs ( and 17 goals in the past three consecutive post-seasons ), was silenced completely in the finals series.
Despite the presence of Bryant as the centerpiece of the team, the Lakers couldn't get past the first round of the playoffs in 2006 or 2007.

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