... Report, I came across an interesting streak concerning teams that have won the Super Bowl.

 

Almost every team that won the Super Bowl since the American-National Football League merger had made the playoffs the season before.

 

The exceptions to this rule could be broken into two categories-

 

A-    Teams that employed a new starting quarterback from the previous season for the majority of the campaign (the 1980 Oakland Raiders, the 1999 St. Louis Rams, the 2000 Baltimore Ravens, and the 2001 New England Patriots).

B-  &nbs...

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