• If it seems like the Colts, Patriots and Steelers are always in the AFC playoffs, it’s with good reason. If at least two of them make this year’s Super Bowl tournament, it would be the ninth consecutive season that that happened. The 2000 season was the last time the AFC field included just one of those three perennial powerhouses (the Colts made it that year, but not New England or Pittsburgh).
And get this: The last time none of the AFC’s Big Three made it to the postseason? Way back in 1991, the most recent season the Colts, Patriots and Steelers all had losing records in the same year. This season will mark the 18th consecutive year that someone out of the Colts-Patriots-Steelers triumvirate will be playoff bound.
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