It seems like it was just yesterday that the Seattle Seahawks became the first sub-.500 team ever to make the NFL playoffs, when a 7-9 team could win the worst division in football.
Yes, once upon a magical time -- when the Y2K bug was still lingering in the backs of our minds -- the AFC South wasn’t the laughingstock of the league. Rather, it was the NFC West. Washed-up superstars such as Emmitt Smith and Jerry Rice roamed the land in this division, free of any care. This was a lawless division where four seasons in its first decade under the current alignment (since 2002) saw a division champion pick up nine wins or fewer.