poo Posted January 20, 2013 Posted January 20, 2013 (edited) Once again, the NFC representative in the Super Bowl is a team that beat the Buffalo Bills during the regular season. I don't know the odds of this happening, but seven years in a row seems kind of ridiculous. 2006: October 8, 2006 at Chicago Bears L 40–7 2007: December 23, 2007 New York Giants 1 PM EST Ralph Wilson Stadium Fox L 38–21 2008: Sunday October 5 4:15 PM CBS at Arizona Cardinals L 41–17 4–1 2009: September 27 4:05pm EDT Fox New Orleans Saints L 27–7 2010: September 19 1:00 p.m. at Green Bay Packers L 7–34 2011: October 16 1:00 p.m. at New York Giants L 24–27 2012: October 7 4:25 p.m. at San Francisco 49ers L 3–45 Edited January 20, 2013 by poo
Miyagi-Do Karate Posted January 20, 2013 Posted January 20, 2013 1) This is insane 2) I am willing to bet that in more years than not, we also played the AFC rep.
sodbuster Posted January 20, 2013 Posted January 20, 2013 1) This is insane 2) I am willing to bet that in more years than not, we also played the AFC rep. I would be willing to bet many years we played them twice.
Just Jack Posted January 21, 2013 Posted January 21, 2013 Interesting that the NFC record in that span is 4-2 (Chicago, Arizona losses).
/dev/null Posted January 21, 2013 Posted January 21, 2013 I bet the Falcons are hoping this trend continues
boyst Posted January 21, 2013 Posted January 21, 2013 Falcons, Saints, Bucs or Panthers. God, I hope it is not the Panthers. I was sick of the Got Jake crap. If it is anything with Cam...gag. Slash is right, it's likely the Falcons.
Punch Posted January 21, 2013 Posted January 21, 2013 (edited) 2) I am willing to bet that in more years than not, we also played the AFC rep. Only one season in that span did the Bills not play the AFC representative (2008 Steelers). Of the remaining 5 seasons, the Bills lost to each team except the 2009 season finale against the Colts, where Indy rested many of their starters in the 2nd half: 2006: Colts 17-16 2007: Patriots 38-7, 56-10 2008: DNP the Steelers 2009: Colts 7-30 2010: Steelers 19-16 OT 2011: Patriots 31-34, 49-21 Edited January 21, 2013 by Punch
ganesh Posted January 21, 2013 Posted January 21, 2013 and all but one of them were ass kickings +1 Only one season in that span did the Bills not play the AFC representative (2008 Steelers). Of the remaining 5 seasons, the Bills lost to each team except the 2009 season finale against the Colts, where Indy rested many of their starters in the 2nd half: 2006: Colts 17-16 2007: Patriots 38-7, 56-10 2008: DNP the Steelers 2009: Colts 7-30 2010: Steelers 19-16 OT 2011: Patriots 31-34, 49-21 The bills have yet to consistently beat good to great teams. So I am not surprised that our record against the SB opponents are 1-11. It aptly describes the divide in the talent and coaching of this team from rest of the NFL.
reddogblitz Posted January 21, 2013 Posted January 21, 2013 So 2 out of the last 3 years before this year we beat the AFC Champs. Would have been 3 in a row if you know who had not dropped you know what. That's decent. This year we didn't play the Ravens so it doesn't count.
ExiledInIllinois Posted January 21, 2013 Posted January 21, 2013 The pattern is setting up for a SF loss? Too many wins in a row??
JPS Posted January 21, 2013 Posted January 21, 2013 Having the Bills on the schedule has been the guaranteed win for good teams. If you did not play the Bills, you're down 1 game against those who did. And those teams also got to play Miami. So I think the result is no coincidence. It's really quite logical.
eSJayDee Posted January 21, 2013 Posted January 21, 2013 Given our recent track rcd against good teams the fact given we played them, that we've lost 7x in a row to the NFC SB team is actually quite likely (I'd guesstimate >75%). The fact that we ended up playing them due to scheduling, I gotta think is very unlikely. Over the last 7 yrs, I'd say the AFC East has been, on avg, relatively avg (ie no particular advantage in playing them). Were it to be a particularly weak division, "gifting" a team 4 wins, would give them an advantage in helping to procure homefield, which of course would help them ultimately make the SB.
UpperDeck Posted January 21, 2013 Posted January 21, 2013 The thing that isn't surprising in that statistic is that we LOST to the NFC representative.
Badasss Posted January 21, 2013 Posted January 21, 2013 Any NFC team that has the luxury of playing the Bills also has the burden of playing the Pats in the same yr.
Dibs Posted January 22, 2013 Posted January 22, 2013 Once again, the NFC representative in the Super Bowl is a team that beat the Buffalo Bills during the regular season. I don't know the odds of this happening, but seven years in a row seems kind of ridiculous. 2006: October 8, 2006 at Chicago Bears L 40–7 2007: December 23, 2007 New York Giants 1 PM EST Ralph Wilson Stadium Fox L 38–21 2008: Sunday October 5 4:15 PM CBS at Arizona Cardinals L 41–17 4–1 2009: September 27 4:05pm EDT Fox New Orleans Saints L 27–7 2010: September 19 1:00 p.m. at Green Bay Packers L 7–34 2011: October 16 1:00 p.m. at New York Giants L 24–27 2012: October 7 4:25 p.m. at San Francisco 49ers L 3–45 It is amazing that we played the NFC SB rep each year for 7 years. We play one NFC Division each year.....so the odds that a team from that division is going to get to the SB is 1 in 4 For this to happen 7 years in a row mathematically equates to....1 in 4x4x4x4x4x4x4 1 in 16,384 The fact that we actually lost all 7 games is not that important IMO as in each of the 7 cases we have been a bad team playing an eventual SB contender.
Cereal Posted January 22, 2013 Posted January 22, 2013 This means that NE*, MIA,and NYJ all played the NFC representative in each of the past seven seasons as well. I would be interested to see their records against those opponents over the same span.
truth on hold Posted January 22, 2013 Posted January 22, 2013 Another weird factoid about bills and super bowls. In 2 of the 4 they played the NFC opponent in regular season: giants and cowboys. In both instances Bills won the regular season game, and both times on the road.
BRAWNDO Posted January 22, 2013 Posted January 22, 2013 Another weird factoid about bills and super bowls. In 2 of the 4 they played the NFC opponent in regular season: giants and cowboys. In both instances Bills won the regular season game, and both times on the road. I really wish we could switch that up and have lost to them in the regular season and won the rematch
apuszczalowski Posted January 22, 2013 Posted January 22, 2013 I went to 2 of those games The Saints game, and one of the Giants games (can't remember which one, but I think it was the '07 one, it was rainy in the morning then temperature dropped like a rock by halftime when it started to snow) I was also at a pre-season Bears/Cardinals game the year the Bears went to the Superbowl
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