Unlike other pro sports leagues, the allure of the NFL's postseason is its unpredictability. While MLB, NHL and the NBA all have best-of-five or best-of-seven game series, the NFL's postseason is more like best-of-60-minutes. That means even a wild-card team can get hot and win three straight games to make it to the Super Bowl.
But how likely is that to actually happen? Based on recent history, not so much.
Since the NFL expanded to eight divisions in 2002 – creating four wild-card teams in the process – 128 different teams have played on the first weekend of the playoffs.