Last Decade: Being NFC 1 Seed has not produced many SB winners

Here’s an interesting fact: In the last ten years, the team earning the #1 NFC seed in the playoffs has only won the SB two times. Three other times the NFC’s #1 seed has made it to the SB and lost. So 50% of the time the last decade an NFC #1 seed has made it to a SB. Only 20% of the time has that team won a Lombardi.

Here are the NFC #1 seeds the last decade and how they fared:

• 2012- Atlanta was the #1 NFC seed- they lost in the NFC championship game to SF.
• 2013- Seattle was #1 NFC seed and won the SB.
• 2014- Seattle was #1 NFC seed- won NFC championship but lost SB to New England.
• 2015- Carolina was the #1 NFC seed- won NFC championship but lost SB to Denver.
• 2016- Dallas was #1 NFC seed- lost in divisional round to #4 seed GB.
• 2017- Filly was NFC #1 seed and won the SB.
• 2018- New Orleans was #1 seed in NFC- lost in NFC championship to #2 seed rams.
• 2019- SF was the #1 NFC seed and won NFC championship but lost SB to KC.
• 2020- GB was #1 NFC seed- lost in the NFC championship game to eventual SB champ Tampa Bay who was the #5 seed.
• 2021- GB again had top seed but lost in divisional round to #5 seed SF.

Sure it would be nice to get the #1 seed in the NFC playoffs this year. We still have a shot. But having it doesn’t mean as much as we used to think.