No defending Superbowl Champs have won a playoff game since 2005

[Jeremy Igo]

Just saw this on twitter.

 

 

Interesting....

[teeray]

Well.... no reason to break precedent. 

[jtnc]

No NFC South team has repeated as divisional champs...until three weeks ago.

[Vampire the buffet slayer]

Seattle fans be like" So nobody's done it in football history!1?!??"

[EgoDogg]

No NFC South team has repeated as divisional champs...until three weeks ago.

 

Way to piss on our parade before it even begins! 

[Gucci Mane]

Happy NFCCG birth y'all!!!!

[Diehardpanther02]

These are the type of things that should be looked over. You can never use the past as precedent to the future, especially in sports. Cool to know though.

[TheWiz]

since 2005 ?

 

That's like...

 

not even a thing.

 

 

[Johnny Rockets]

They've been talking about that for a couple of days on radio/tv, but I wonder how many of those Super Bowl teams even made the playoffs the following year? Haven't heard anyone mention that and I'm way too lazy to look it up.

 

 

*Edit* - NM - 4 didn't make the playoffs; 4 lost the first game

 

[Yaboychris28]

You can find some irrelevant statistic like that for any game if you look hard enough.

[Johnny Rockets]

It's part of the magic # 8.

 

- 8 years since a Super Bowl champ won a playoff game

 

- Panthers have 8 new starters compared to the first time they played the Seahawks this year.

 

- Panthers are 8-8-1

 

- It was week 8 when these two teams last played

 

etc..

 

There were a couple of other references to the # 8 but I can't remember them.

 

Obviously means the Panthers will win 8-6 with a safety in OT being the difference.

[caatfan]

That streak can stay alive until we're the defending champs. Meanwhile, we need to work on breaking the no 'back to back winning records' streak.

[Jase]

It's part of the magic # 8.

 

- 8 years since a Super Bowl champ won a playoff game

 

- Panthers have 8 new starters compared to the first time they played the Seahawks this year.

 

- Panthers are 8-8-1

 

- It was week 8 when these two teams last played

 

etc..

 

There were a couple of other references to the # 8 but I can't remember them.

 

Obviously means the Panthers will win 8-6 with a safety in OT being the difference.

 

This is like that number 23 movie.

 

The last good QB to play for the seahawks was #8... OMG

[Jase]

Both Starting running backs... Marshawn and Jonathan... both have 8-letter first names.  OMG