What Are The Best NFL Divisional Round Games Of All-Time?

Recency bias + some from way back.

Ted Bauer
7 min readJan 16, 2023

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If you remember Divisional Round of two years ago (2021–2022 NFL playoffs), you had:

  • Titans vs. Bengals
  • Bills vs. Chiefs
  • Rams vs. Bucs
  • 49ers vs. Packers

All of those games were within one score, leading us to this:

What really led us to “best weekend ever,” of course, was the ending of Bills-Chiefs:

Some have argued that’s the best game ever played. It’s probably up there.

I used to write about sports a lot more on blogs I had (I worked for ESPN from 2005 to 2012), but I don’t really write about football on here as much these days, minus this one:

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Ted Bauer
Ted Bauer

Written by Ted Bauer

I write about a lot of different topics, from work to masculinity to relationships and social dynamics, I.e. modern friendship. Pleasure to be here.