St . Louis(12-4) squandered a chance to be at home throughout the N.F.C. playoffs, an advantage it had en route to the 1999 and 2001 N.F.C. championships.
Dec. 20, 1986.. 55-24 over Green Bay Clinch playoff home-field advantage with most points ever at Stadium.
For many of those meetings, supremacy in the A.F.C. — and the potential for playoff home-field advantage — was on the line.
BADDELEY BEATS GARCIA IN PLAYOFF: Aaron Baddeley took advantage of a two-stroke penalty on Sergio Garcia and won the Greg Norman Holden International on the first hole of a playoff yesterday in Sydney, Australia.
The Rangers, who entered Saturday one game behind Tampa Bay and Cleveland for the final two playoff spots, took advantage of the groggy Angels, scoring their first three runs on errors by third baseman Andrew Romine, pitcher Garrett Richards and shortstop Erick Aybar.
Seattle dismantled their regular season opponents and won the NFC West giving themselves a bye for the first-round of the playoffs and home field advantage throughout the playoffs.
GP: Seeded round-robin playoffs with home advantage throughout for conference winners.
And the pace of these games tends to lighten as these playoffs continue, an advantage for teams like the Knicks.
"I thought we'd be fighting for the playoffs, home-field advantage and all that," defensive tackle Jason Ferguson said.
Maybe eight games isn't much of a sample size, but so far in the NBA playoffs, home-court advantage hasn't been much of one.
