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In the 1978 season, the Falcons qualified for the playoffs for the first time and won the Wild Card game against the Philadelphia Eagles 14 13.
The next week, their dream season ended at home with a loss to the Cowboys 30 27 in the divisional playoffs.
In the strike-shortened 1982 season, the Falcons made the playoffs but lost to the Minnesota Vikings, 30 24.
In 2000, the Falcons suffered through another horrendous season finishing 4-12 and once again missing the playoffs.
The Falcons finished the 2001 season with a record of 7-9 and missed the playoffs.
Their season ended with a loss to Donovan McNabb and the Philadelphia Eagles 20 6 in the NFC divisional playoffs.
The Falcons finished the 2008 regular season with a record of 11 5, and the # 5 seed in the playoffs.
Although they failed to make the playoffs in 2009, the streak ended when the team rallied to win their final three regular season games to record back-to-back winning seasons for the first time in franchise history.
In 2010, with a regular season record of 13 3, their best regular season record since the 1998 Super Bowl season, the Falcons secured a third straight winning season, their fourth overall divisional title, and the top overall seed in the NFC playoffs ; however, the Falcons were overpowered by the eventual Super Bowl XLV champion Green Bay Packers in the NFC Divisional Playoffs 48 21.
Five teams make the playoffs from each league: the three regular season division winners, plus two wild card teams.
According to Nate Silver, the advent of this playoff series, and especially of the wild card, has caused teams to focus more on " getting to the playoffs " rather than " winning the pennant " as the primary goal of the regular season.
He played three seasons with the Blades, and in his final year with the club he led the league in assists and points in both the regular season and playoffs.
Those against the Wild Card see it as diminishing the importance of the pennant race and the regular season, with the true race often being for second rather than first place, while those in favor of it view it as an opportunity for teams to have a shot at the playoffs even when they have no chance of a first-place finish in their division, thus maintaining fan interest later in the season.
Nonetheless, in 1960, the Browns dropped three games by a total of 10 points, finished with an 8-3-1 record and out of the playoffs for the second consecutive season.
After finishing the 2006 and 2007 seasons with records of 8 8 and 7 9, respectively, the Panthers rebounded in the 2008 season, finishing the season with a 12 4 record, claiming the NFC South title and a first round bye in the playoffs.
Under Palmer, the team advanced to the playoffs for the first time since 1990 in the 2005 season, which also was the first time the team had a winning percentage above. 500 since 1990.
The Bengals returned to the playoffs again in 2009 in a season that included the franchise's first ever division sweep.
After defeating the wild-card Boston Red Sox 3-1 in the Division Series, Cleveland lost the 1998 ALCS in six games to the New York Yankees, who had come into the playoffs with a then-AL record 114 wins in the regular season.
However, the season came to an end as the Indians went on to lose six of their last seven games, five of them by one run, missing the playoffs by only two games.
As a result of the Rockies ' remarkable September run, the team finished the regular season tied with the Padres for the National League wild card spot in the playoffs.

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WMMS will air the Indians if the conflict occurs spring training, or if the Cavs are in the playoffs.
The Cowboys are the only NFL team to record 20 straight winning seasons ( 1966 85 ), in which they only missed the playoffs twice ( 1974 and 1984 ), an NFL record that remains unchallenged.
Three finalists are named and the trophy is awarded at the NHL awards ceremony after the conclusion of the playoffs.
Those three victories are often credited with getting the team into the playoffs and the basis for the 2000 movie The Replacements.
When a Chicago-area sports team goes far in the playoffs, the colors are changed to match the team's colors.
More complex systems for championship playoffs involving four or more wrestlers also exist, but these are usually only seen in determining the winner of one of the lower divisions.
The two colleges in town are both very active in sports, with Wesley being a perennial powerhouse in its conference in Division III football and Delaware State making the FCS playoffs for the first time in 2007.
The first two rounds of playoffs are best-of-three series ; the league championship series is a best-of-five.
As well, they are the first NHL team in history, and only one of two teams to lose nine or more games in a year's playoffs, yet still win the Stanley Cup.
Paul George and Tyler Hansbrough, who many believe are two key pieces to the Pacers return to the playoffs, rarely got off the bench for the most of the 2010 season.
The playoffs, postseason, or finals of a sports league are a game or series of games played after the regular season by the top competitors, usually but not always with a single-elimination system, to determine the league champion or a similar accolade.
In England playoffs are used in association football to decide promotion for lower finishing teams, rather than to decide a champion in the way they are used in North America.
One major difference between the NBA system and other sports playoffs is that division champions are not guaranteed home-court advantage at any time in the playoffs, as home-court advantage is decided strictly on regular-season record, without regard to seeding.
The NBA playoffs are often criticized for having too many teams, as it is common to see teams with losing regular season records in the playoffs.
In the First / Second and Second / Third Division, while the champions are automatically promoted and the bottom team relegated, there are playoffs of the second-bottom teams against the second, third and fourth placed teams from the league below.
These competitions run concurrently with the " regular season " league competitions and are not regarded as playoffs.
The winners then advance to face the top two teams in the semifinals, which are held at nominally neutral sites ( a traditional feature in the French playoffs )— although in the 2011 12 season, the semifinals were held at Stadium de Toulouse, occasionally used as a " big-game " venue by traditional Top 14 power Stade Toulousain.
The Edmonton Eskimos are notable for qualifying for the CFL playoffs every year from 1972 to 2005, a record in North American pro sports.
Three finalists are named and the trophy is awarded at the NHL Awards ceremony after the playoffs.
The Playoff beard is a tradition common with teams in the National Hockey League and now in other leagues where players allow their beards to grow from the beginning of the playoff season until the playoffs are over for their team.
The four remaining teams in each conference are reseeded by regular season points in the second round of the playoffs.

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