ĮSPN Deportes served as the league's Spanish-language broadcaster. CBS had exclusive coverage of the AFC Championship Game and Super Bowl 50. Fox had exclusive coverage of the NFC Championship Game. Coverage of the NFC Wild Card and Divisional rounds was split between NBC and Fox, with each network having coverage of one game in each of those two rounds. The ABC/ESPN simulcast was a AFC Wild Card game, while CBS broadcast the rest of the AFC playoff games. Disney did not own any playoff rights from 2006 through 2013.
The last such broadcast was Super Bowl XL after the 2005 season. From Disney's purchase of ESPN and ABC in 1996 through 2005, ABC had aired all of Disney's playoff games (the network also aired Monday Night Football at the time). After airing one game exclusively on cable on ESPN in 2014, the lone game which The Walt Disney Company owns the rights to was broadcast on both ESPN and ABC, a broadcast network with a much larger audience. This was the NFL's standard policy through the end of the previous television contract in 2013. In a change from previous seasons, both AFC wild card games were played on the Saturday, and then both NFC Wild Card games were played on the Sunday (instead of having a game from each conference on the same day).Īll playoff games aired on network television. Although the Super Bowl, the fourth and final round of the playoffs, is played at a neutral site, the designated home team is based on an annual rotation by conference. The two surviving teams from each conference's divisional playoff games met in the respective AFC and NFC Conference Championship games, hosted by the higher seed. In the second round, the divisional playoffs, the number 1 seed hosts the worst-surviving seed from the first round (seed 4, 5, or 6), while the number 2 seed will play the other team (seed 3, 4, or 5). The 1 and 2 seeds from each conference received a first-round bye. In the first round, dubbed the wild-card playoffs or wild-card weekend, the third-seeded division winner hosts the sixth-seed wild card, and the fourth seed hosts the fifth. The NFL does not use a fixed bracket playoff system, and there are no restrictions regarding teams from the same division matching up in any round. The four division winners are seeded 1–4 based on their overall won-lost-tied record, and the wild card teams are seeded 5–6. Within each conference, the four division winners and the two wild card teams (the top two non-division winners with the best overall regular season records) qualified for the playoffs.
The postseason tournament concluded with Super Bowl 50, on February 7, when the Denver Broncos defeated the Carolina Panthers at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California.įor this year only, the Super Bowl decided not to use a Roman numeral ("L") and instead used the standard numerals "50." According to Jaime Weston, the league's vice president of brand and creative, the primary reason was that the league's graphic designers had difficulty designing a suitable, aesthetically pleasing logo with only the Roman numeral "L". The National Football League playoffs for the 2015 season began on January 9, 2016.
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