Awesome Freaking Conference

The AFC keeps rolling

The top two teams in the standings fell, with New Orleans losing its bid for a perfect season and Minnesota flopping again on the road against lowly Carolina. A surging wild-card contender (Green Bay) went down. Three NFC teams — St. Louis (1-13), Tampa Bay (2-12) and Detroit (2-12) — also remained on track to land the top three picks in next year’s draft. The conference hasn’t suffered that indignity since 1989.

Such struggles, though, have become par for the course.

As one decade ends and another begins, the AFC has clearly established itself as the NFL’s dominant conference. The AFC has a 35-25 record in interconference matchups this season and a .553 winning percentage since the 2000 campaign. Seven of the nine Super Bowl champions in that span have come from the AFC. At this point in 2009, the AFC can boast of the team with the best record (Indianapolis) and having far more squads still in the playoff hunt at .500 or better.

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