Last week during the NFL owners meeting, teams discussed whether they should change current playoff seedings to no longer give division winners an automatic home game—a rule proposed by the Detroit Lions. Ultimately, the league owners opted to table the discussion for the next meetings in May, but Lions team president Rod Wood revealed an interesting fact about the overall process: the rule change was not the Lions’ idea—it was the NFL’s.
Let’s take you back to Week 18. The Lions and Minnesota Vikings were both 14-2 and set to play each other in the season finale with the NFC’s No.