2002 was the 1st year the NFL realigned and made 8 divisions instead of 6. In those 10 years, 7 years had a team(s) that were 9-7 or worse declared division champions and allowed to host a home playoff game. The obvious one was the 2010 7-9 Seahawks hosting the 11-5 Saints, also the 10-6 Buccaneres who had 42% more wins than Seattle were left out of the playoffs.

Even from the get go, I hated the new relaignment because of the flaw. To me, I would like the NFL to drop playing nonconfernce games, each team play each team in the conference 1 time and then playing a rivalry team twice. Each year, switch who is home and who is road, jsut like college. Take the top teams and give out the seeds that way. It is still flawed, but much better than the current format. The issue is of coarse money, where the NFL wants more teams to have something to play for at the end of the season. I can't wait for a 6-10 division championship team to host a 13-3 team in the first round (it is mathmatically possible), maybe then the NFL should make a change.

At the very least the NFL should change that a team with 3 or more wins should be allowed to host the playoff game.

The NFL said if last year's Seahawks game was a trend they would loo into it. Isn't one occurance enough?

Enjoy the Broncos hosting the Steelers next weekend, ridiculous.