NFC Title Game notes

Tomorrow the Carolina Panthers will host the NFC title game for the first time in their 21 year history.

It will be the third of three possible playoff levels in which the Panthers will be hosting the Arizona Cardinals.

Last week the Cardinals, who have hosted one NFC title game in their 46 possible years of doing so, played a divisional round game at home, also for the first time in 46 possible seasons.

Going back, the Cardinals have hosted but two title tilts, the first in 1947, their only title season and that NFL title game was for all the marbles. The other was in 2008 vs the Philadelphia Eagles for the right to play for the NFL crown in the Super Bowl.

Last week, the Cardinals won and the Pittsburgh Steelers lost. That was not the case in the 2008 Super Bowl when Pittsburgh won the title, no covering the Cardinals.

Last week, the Cardinals won but did not cover. Last week the Steelers, 7 point underdogs, lost by 7 points.

The Panthers defeated the Cardinals in the 2015 wild card round. That game as well as a Saturday night divisional round game between the Panthers and Cardinals was hosted by the Panthers. The Cardinals won that 2008 divisional round game.