I remember people saying that - that whoever wins the Titans-Bills game is going to be the AFC team in the Super Bowl. I thought that's crazy. Back then, its seemed it almost always the playoffs were like this year - where all the wild card winners never even made it to the championship game.
But, sure enough - I was wrong about that when the Titans came up one yard show of winning the whole thing.
And, then for some reason it became common for the wild card teams to make the Super Bowl.