NFL Playoff Schedule: 2010
The NFL has announced the complete 2010 playoff schedule. All games are broadcast nationally.
Wild Card Round
Sat 1/8, 4:30 PM ET: New Orleans @ Seattle (NBC; Tom Hammond, Mike Mayock)
Sat 1/8, 8:00 PM ET: NY Jets @ Indianapolis (NBC; Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth)
Sun 1/9, 1:00 PM ET: Baltimore @ Kansas City (CBS; Jim Nantz, Phil Simms)
Sun 1/9, 4:30 PM ET: Green Bay @ Philadelphia (FOX; Joe Buck, Troy Aikman)
Divisional Playoffs
Sat 1/15, 4:30 PM ET: Baltimore @ Pittsburgh (CBS; Greg Gumbel, Dan Dierdorf)
Sat 1/15, 8:00 PM ET: Green Bay @ Atlanta (FOX; Joe Buck, Troy Aikman)
Sun 1/16, 1:00 PM ET: Seattle @ Chicago (FOX; Kenny Albert, Daryl Johnston, Tony Siragusa)
Sun 1/16, 4:30 PM ET: NY Jets @ New England (CBS; Jim Nantz, Phil Simms)
Conference Championships
Sun 1/23, 3:00 PM ET: NFC Championship (FOX; Joe Buck, Troy Aikman)
Sun 1/23, 6:30 PM ET: AFC Championship (CBS; Jim Nantz, Phil Simms)
SUPER BOWL XLV (at Dallas)
Sun 2/6, 6:00 PM ET (FOX; Joe Buck, Troy Aikman)
One added note….
part of the scheduling is done to try to minimize direct conflict with NBA and NHL home market team games.
For example they had a blackhawks game in chicago set for 7pm Sunday and the Bulls played at home at 7pm on sturday so the Chicago game had to happen at 1pm.
For example next week there is a Flyers @ blackhawks game on NBC scheduled for the . This game will start at noon so it doesnt conflict with the Bears game.
It is good to see no NFC East teams anymore so FOX, Joe and Troy can shut up about it. They should be doing more NFC North games with this past weekend and weekend coming being prime examples. Study up guys, you need to do better about these teams.
DJP
what do you mean “you can’t have 10 a.m. football games on the west-coast during the playoffs? But theyve been showing it in the morning hours, in the west-coast
During the Wild-Card and Divisional-Rounds, Baltimore@Kansas City wild-card Sunday was shown at 10 a.m. in the west-coast last week
Seattle@Chicago Divisional-CARD Game was shown 10 a.m. in the west-coast on Sunday
@ Leonard
DJP means home games in the Pacific and Mountain timezones cannot start at 10 Pac or 11 Mtn.
Ohh.
It was my misunderstanding then. sorry
From all the rumors i’ve been hearing, is it true the NFL might be re-considering of expanding the 12 playoff contender teams, to 16 a few years from now??
@Gerardo,
The NFL will more likely go with a 7 team per league playoffs with 3 wild cards and the #1 seed gets a bye.
Its an issue to have half the NFL teams in the playoffs and they dont want 7-9 or 6-10 wild card teams should they go with 8 teams.
Lets say for example, in 2014,
Cincinnati clinches the AFC-NORTH
Oakland clinches the AFC-WEST with a (1st round bye)
Jacksonville clinches the AFC-South
and the New York Jets clinches the AFC-East
Baltimore,Indianapolis, and Miami are the wild cards.
Miami@Jacksonville
Indianapolis@Cincinnati
Baltimore@New York Jets
with Oakland having a 1st round bye
is that how it might be functioned?
@Gerardo
That is one possibility….
The other possibility is that the the division winners arent guarentted home field advantage or they only are guarenteed it for the first round then after that its based purely on record alone.
They could follow the NBA model where 1 wild card can pass the division winners in the first round so the lowere division winners are still assured home advantage in the first round but after that its purely based on record alone.
@DJP, your last statement about the championship Sunday games is not necessarily true. At the end of the 2006 regular season, the championship matchups were New Orleans @ Chicago @ 3 on FOX and New England @ Indianapolis @ 6:30 on CBS, but CBS broadcasted Superbowl XLI between Indianapolis vs Chicago that year. Also at the end of the 2007 regular, the championship games were San Diego @ New England @ 3 on CBS and N.Y. Giants @ Green Bay at 6:30 on FOX, but FOX broadcasted Superbowl XLII between the N.Y. Giants vs New England.
It’s simple:
The conference championship schedules are on a 2-year rotation, the Super Bowl TV coverage is on a 3-year rotation. One has nothing to do with the other.
Admin:
Do you necessarily mean that Fox would host the super*bowl for 3 years in a row, and then it would be CBS’s turn to host the super*bowl for 3 years in a row…. Back&Forth?
No…it rotates between each of the networks. Since there are 3 networks that broadcast the Super Bowl, it means each network gets a turn to broadcast it every third year.
Ex: NBC had it 2 years ago, CBS had it last year and FOX has it this year. Next year it rotates back to NBC.
With the exception of a couple years in the 90s, it’s been that way for 30 years.
I have to wonder if ESPN will ever host an NFL playoff game, and super-bowl too
This has been a great 2010-2011 NFL-SEASON, Admin/DJP, and to the rest of the guys who formed this great forum discussion website. The Green Bay Packers are crowned SUPER-BOWL CHAMPIONS. I throw my hats at them, to congratulate them for having an epic and monumental playoff-run that they had.
We look forward to working with you guys in the 2011-2012 NFL-SEASON
–Leonard