The Road teams did even better, (4-0) for the first time.

The road teams did even better than Mike Francesa compiling a (4-0) record in one round/weekend of the NFL playoffs for the first time in 71 such weekends.

Perhaps 70 should have been an omen, (a more telling one is that only the Green Bay Packers at most a one point underdog, were not favored), as the 4 game rounds began with the 1970 season.

70 times, (45 times in the divisional round (1970-2014) and 25 times in the wild card round 1990-2014), the road team failed to win all four games.

The road team also failed in 1969 when both the NFL and the AFL, in its last season, each had 2 NFL quarterfinal games as the eventual league winners met in the Super Bowl. Also one year before 1990, 1982 had 8 wild card round games, 4 each on Saturday and Sunday due to a work stoppage/strike. The road team did not win 4 games on either day.

Willie Nelson / On The Road Again

Click above to view the great Willie Nelson perform this great hit. Circa January 1982, CBS Sports used “On The Road Again” as it promoted its to be televised sports events for the year.

If it was 1982, the promo began with the Super Bowl to be played in Pontiac, Michigan (that was the 16th and number 16 Joe Montana and the S.F. 49ers won it vs the Cincinnati Bengals).

For years before that, people noticed the promo for that Supe when games were telecast from Detroit. 1982 seemed far away before it arrived, now it is truly a distant speck in the rear view mirror of life.