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The National Football League playoffs for the 2010 season began on January 8, 2011. The postseason tournament concluded with the Green Bay Packers defeating the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XLV, 31–25, on February 6, at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. This was the first time that the new postseason overtime rules were in effect, although none of the playoff games this season ended up going into the extra session. Under the new changes, instead of a straight sudden death, the game will not immediately end if the team that wins the coin toss only scores a field goal on its first possession (the game will end if they score a touchdown). Instead, the other team gets a possession. If the coin toss loser then scores a touchdown, it is declared the winner. If the score is tied after both teams had a possession, then it goes back to sudden death. This was only the second post-season in NFL history that included a team with a losing record, and the first to occur with a full regular season, when the Seattle Seahawks won their division with a 7–9 record; only the 1982–83 NFL playoffs had previously included teams with a losing record, and that was after a strike-shortened season. ''Unless otherwise noted, all times listed are Eastern Standard Time (UTC-05)'' ==Participants== This marks the first time in league history that a team with a losing record has advanced to the playoffs in a full season; the Seattle Seahawks finished 7–9 (for a win percentage of .438), yet still made the playoffs. This was because all the teams in the NFC West had losing seasons and the Seahawks' record was the best of the four. The only other time any team with a losing record ever qualified for the playoffs was during the Super Bowl tournament following the strike-shortened 1982 NFL season, when two losing teams (one from each conference) qualified for the tournament. That tournament had an expanded field in which 16 out of the 28 teams qualified for the playoffs, as opposed to only 10 teams eligible at the time or 12 teams since the 1990 NFL season. Furthermore, the two teams that qualified with losing seasons that year, the Cleveland Browns and Detroit Lions, both had records of 4–5 (.444), having a higher win percentage than the 2010 Seahawks. Six days after winning the division, the Seahawks defeated the defending Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints to become the first playoff team with a losing record to win in the postseason. *In the opening wild-card round of the playoffs, three of the four home teams had fewer wins than the away team. The exception was the Packers-Eagles match, where both were 10–6. The Packers had defeated the Eagles in Week 1 of the season. *Away teams were 6–4 this playoff season for wins. *This is the first Super Bowl in which the NFC representative is a #6 seed, and only the second time one has made the Super Bowl (The previous being in the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XL). Had the Jets also won their conference championship game it would have been the first #6 vs #6 seed in Super Bowl history. *This was the first time since the 1979 NFL season where neither of the number one playoff seeds advanced to their conference's respective championship game. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2010–11 NFL playoffs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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