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2004 New England Patriots season
2004 New England Patriots season: NFL team's 14-2 championship year under Bill Belichick and Tom Brady, ending with a 24-21 win over Philadelphia in Super Bowl XXXIX, the franchise's third title in four seasons.
2004 NFL season
2004 NFL season: 85th NFL regular season; Patriots beat Eagles 24-21 in Super Bowl XXXIX (Feb 6, 2005, Jacksonville) for a third title in four years; Steelers went 15-1; record 732 TD passes.
2004 Philadelphia Eagles season
2004 Philadelphia Eagles season: Andy Reid's Eagles went 13-3, won the NFC East at 6-0, beat Minnesota 27-14 and Atlanta 27-10 in the playoffs, and lost Super Bowl XXXIX 24-21 to New England.
2004–05 NFL playoffs
The 2004-05 NFL playoffs ended the 2004 season; the New England Patriots beat the Philadelphia Eagles 24-21 in Super Bowl XXXIX at Jacksonville for a third title in four seasons, after wins over the Jets, Colts, and Steelers.
2005 NFL Draft
2005 NFL Draft, held April 23-24, 2005; 255 picks over seven rounds. Alex Smith went first to San Francisco, Aaron Rodgers fell to 24th (Green Bay), DeMarcus Ware (11th, Dallas) became the class's first Hall of Famer.
2005 NFL season
2005 NFL season, the league's 86th, ended with Pittsburgh beating Seattle 21-10 in Super Bowl XL. Colts started 13-0; Shaun Alexander set a 28-touchdown record; first regular-season game held outside the US, in Mexico City.
2005 Pittsburgh Steelers season
2005 Pittsburgh Steelers season: 11-5 AFC sixth seed under Bill Cowher; won three road playoff games (Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Denver) and Super Bowl XL 21-10 over Seattle; first No. 6 seed to win a Super Bowl; Hines Ward MVP.
2005–06 NFL playoffs
2005–06 NFL playoffs (2005 season postseason): 12-team NFL tournament, January-February 2006. Wild card Pittsburgh Steelers beat Seattle Seahawks 21-10 in Super Bowl XL at Ford Field, becoming the first wild card team to win three road playoff games and the Super Bowl.
2006 Atlanta Falcons–New Orleans Saints game
The 2006 Atlanta Falcons–New Orleans Saints game, or Rebirth game, was the Saints' 23–3 Monday Night Football win returning to the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina.
2006 Chicago Bears season
2006 Chicago Bears season: Lovie Smith's Bears went 13-3, won the NFC North, beat Seattle and New Orleans in the playoffs, and lost Super Bowl XLI 29-17 to Indianapolis; Devin Hester set a rookie record with 5 return touchdowns.
2006 NFL season
The 2006 NFL season was the league's 87th, marked by NBC's return and new TV deals, ending with the Colts beating the Bears 29-17 in Super Bowl XLI.
2006–07 NFL playoffs
The 2006–07 NFL playoffs was the postseason of the NFL's 2006 season, ending with the Indianapolis Colts defeating the Chicago Bears 29–17 in Super Bowl XLI in Miami.
2007 New England Patriots season
2007 New England Patriots season: the franchise's 48th NFL year under Bill Belichick, when Tom Brady and Randy Moss set touchdown records and the team finished the first perfect 16-0 regular season before losing Super Bowl XLII to the Giants, ending 18-1.
2007 New York Giants season
2007 New York Giants season: Tom Coughlin's 10-6 wild-card team won four road playoff games and upset the 18-0 Patriots 17-14 in Super Bowl XLII on Eli Manning's late touchdown pass to Plaxico Burress.
2007 NFL Draft
2007 NFL Draft (April 28-29, 2007): JaMarcus Russell went first overall to Oakland; Calvin Johnson, Joe Thomas, Patrick Willis, and Darrelle Revis became Hall of Famers from the first round.
2007 NFL season
2007 NFL season: 17-week, 256-game regular season, Sept 6 to Dec 30, opened by Colts-Saints. Patriots went 16-0, the only perfect regular season, scoring 589 points, but lost Super Bowl XLII to the Giants; also first London game and Spygate fines.
2007–08 NFL playoffs
2007–08 NFL playoffs: the twelve-team NFL postseason for the 2007 season, January 5 to February 3, 2008, ending with the New York Giants upsetting the 16-0 New England Patriots 17-14 in Super Bowl XLII at Glendale, Arizona.
2008 Detroit Lions season
2008 Detroit Lions season: the NFL's first 0-16 team, coached by Rod Marinelli and fired GM Matt Millen in September; 268 points scored, 517 allowed, last in NFC North; matched only by the 2017 Browns.
2008 New England Patriots season
2008 New England Patriots season: NFL team went 11-5 under Bill Belichick after Tom Brady tore his ACL and MCL in the opener; Matt Cassel started 15 games, won 10, but the Patriots missed the playoffs on tiebreakers to Miami and Baltimore.
2008 NFL Draft
The 2008 NFL Draft (April 26-27) saw Miami take Jake Long first overall, Matt Ryan third, and a new two-day format with 10-minute first-round picks; Matt Ryan and Jerod Mayo won rookie awards.
2008 NFL season
2008 NFL season, 89th NFL regular season; Pittsburgh Steelers won Super Bowl XLIII. Tennessee Titans led at 13-3, Detroit Lions went 0-16, Peyton Manning was AP MVP, and Drew Brees passed for 5,069 yards.
2008 Pittsburgh Steelers season
2008 Pittsburgh Steelers season: 12-4, AFC North champions under Mike Tomlin; NFL-best 13.9 points allowed per game; won Super Bowl XLIII 27-23 over Arizona on Santonio Holmes's late touchdown catch, February 1, 2009.
2008–09 NFL playoffs
2008-09 NFL playoffs, ending in Super Bowl XLIII: Pittsburgh Steelers (12-4) beat Arizona Cardinals (9-7) 27-23 in Tampa on Feb 1, 2009, on Santonio Holmes's late catch, winning a record sixth title.
2009 New Orleans Saints season
2009 New Orleans Saints season: 43rd franchise season, fourth under Sean Payton with QB Drew Brees; went 13-3 after a 13-0 start and won Super Bowl XLIV 31-17 over the Colts, the franchise's first championship.
2009 NFL Draft
2009 NFL Draft, 74th annual selection meeting, held April 25-26, 2009 at Radio City Music Hall, New York; Matthew Stafford went first overall to the Detroit Lions, and six quarterbacks were taken in the first round.
2009 NFL season
The 2009 NFL season, the league's 2009 campaign, ended with the Saints beating the Colts 31–17 in Super Bowl XLIV. Colts 14-2, Saints 13-3, new kickoff and defenseless-player safety rules, pre-2011 lockout labor tension.
2009–10 NFL playoffs
2009-10 NFL playoffs: postseason of the 2009 NFL season. New Orleans Saints (13-3) beat Indianapolis Colts (14-2) 31-17 in Super Bowl XLIV, Feb 7, 2010, for their first title.
2010 Green Bay Packers season
2010 Green Bay Packers season: 10-6, NFC sixth seed, won Super Bowl XLV 31-25 over Pittsburgh on Feb 6, 2011; Rodgers 3,922 yards, 28 TD; 15 players on injured reserve.
2010 NFL Draft
The 2010 NFL Draft, held April 22-24 at Radio City Music Hall, selected 255 players over seven rounds. Sam Bradford went first to the Rams on the last pre-rookie-wage-scale No. 1 contract; Suh, McCoy, and Trent Williams headlined a deep class.
2010 NFL season
2010 NFL season, the league's 91st, an uncapped year ending with Green Bay beating Pittsburgh 31-25 in Super Bowl XLV; Patriots went 14-2 and Seattle reached the playoffs at 7-9.