The final regular season game of Pete Carroll’s inaugural year as Seattle Seahawks head coach was for the NFC West championship. Thanks to no other game having direct “winner qualifies, loser goes home” playoff implications, the 6-9 Seahawks and 7-8 Rams were flexed into Sunday Night Football for January 2nd, 2011. It would mark Seattle’s first night game at home since shutting out the 49ers on Monday Night Football in 2007.
Seattle was either going to be the first team to win a division title with a sub-.500 record or end up with a 6-10 season and a top-10 draft pick (if my memory is correct, they would’ve gone 7th).