Which, of course, Green Bay won en route to a Super Bowl championship. The Packers, themselves a playoff underdog, beat the Eagles in the wild-card round the same weekend as Beast Quake, went on to beat the Falcons and met the Bears in the NFC title game.
Again, it's a moment that intersects with Wisconsin sports. The Seahawks lost to the Bears the week after that. The Beast Quake play accounted for the winning points since the Saints scored thereafter. With 3:30 left in the game and the Seahawks ahead, 34-30, Lynch took a handoff and broke several tackles on his way to a 67-yard touchdown run that generated such a crowd reaction that it actually showed up on local seismographs and registered as a small earthquake. Since Seattle won its division, it got to host a much better New Orleans Saints team (11-5) and rumbled past in a 41-36 shootout. The Seahawks won the lowly AFC West in 2010 with a 7-9 record, marking the first time an NFL team had made it to the postseason with a losing record aside from the 1982 strike-shortened (and playoff-expanded) season.īut then came Marshawn Lynch. If the Brewers beat the Dodgers, maybe Daniel Vogelbach can get the "Beast Quake" moniker as an homage to postseason success for teams with a losing record. But Cincy didn't go to the playoffs, having lost the first half to the Dodgers and second half to the Astros by 1½ games. The Reds went 66-42 between the two halves for the best record in baseball. The real loser in all of this? Cincinnati. to just two combined runs and winning, 4-0, 2-1 and 4-1. But Oakland, winner of the West, crushed the Royals in a three-game sweep, holding K.C. Though the Royals finished 50-53 overall in 1981 games, they won the right ones.
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The Brewers finished three games back of the Yankees in the first half but won the AL East in the second half, then lost to the Yankees in a five-game series for the right to go to the AL Championship Series. It also opened the door for teams to start fresh in the second half, and that's what the Royals did, having gone 20-30 and finishing fifth in the division (out of seven) when the strike began.īrewers fans will recall that the same thing happened in Milwaukee. It created a lot of strangeness, including uneven schedules (the Dodgers, for example, won the NL West first half by a half game over Cincinnati) and first-half winners with nothing to play for, since baseball decreed that if the same team won both halves, the second-place team in the second half would advance into a divisional series with the both-halves winner. The year was sliced into halves in June when the players' strike began, and baseball decided the best course of action was to pit winners of each half against each other. Technically, the Royals were 30-23 when they made the American League Divisional Series as the second-half champion of the AL West. I know, didn't we just say that the Brewers are the first team to do this?
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