Health a big factor in playoffs

Used to be that home-field advantage was just short of essential to winning playoff games in the NFL. Not so much anymore, as Wild Card weekend showed once again.

In the 2010 version of the Wild Card Round, visiting teams won three of the four games, with the only host able to protect their home turf being the 7-9 Seattle Seahawks who did it by eliminating the defending Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints. Go figure.

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