NFL '17 Dread News - Week 19

It's difficult enough in the NFL just defeating your opponent; but when you're fighting history as well as the team on the other sideline, the wins are twice as hard to come by. Two teams found themselves in the unenviable position of trying to beat history in the two NFC 2nd round playoff games on the weekend of Jan. 13-14 - the Atlanta Falcons and Minnesota Vikings. History - and I'm talking about a combined 73 years of history - says that they couldn't both win. Because if they did, then they'd be facing each other in the next round, and one of them would advance to the Super Bowl. And that would mean that either the Falcons would end the 22-year streak of Super Bowl losers failing to return to the Super Bowl the following season, or the Vikings would end the 51-year streak of teams never playing in the Super Bowl on their home field.