Major rule changes

Source: Total Football: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Football League (ISBN 0-06-270174-6). pp 1583–1592.

• The definition of a drop kick, field goal, and punt is modified: all three can only be attempted from behind the line of scrimmage.
• If a foul by a player causes an injury to an opponent, a team time out will not be charged to the penalized team anytime during the game instead of only during the last two minutes of a half.
• The game clock will not start until the next snap following any change of possession, even if the player went out of bounds.
• Officials will immediately blow the play dead when a defensive player is offsides before the snap and clearly rushes beyond the offensive line in such a way that he becomes an unabated threat to the quarterback.
• A touchback will be ruled when a player fumbles the ball in the field of play and it goes out of bounds in the opponent's end zone.
• A touchback, not a safety, will also be ruled when a player fumbles the ball in his own end zone and the opponent is the one that knocks the fumble out of bounds in the end zone.
• An offensive player cannot deliberately bat a backward pass forward.
• The NFL shield was added to the yoke of the jerseys and the left thigh of the pants.

Final regular season standings

Tiebreakers

• N.Y. Jets finished ahead of Miami in the AFC East based on head-to-head sweep (2–0).
• Chicago was the first NFC Wild Card based on better conference record than Dallas (9–3 to Cowboys' 8–4).
• Atlanta finished ahead of San Francisco in the NFC West based on head-to-head sweep (2–0), and was the third NFC Wild Card ahead of Philadelphia based on better conference record (7–5 to Eagles' 6–6).

AFC

• Wild-Card playoffs: KANSAS CITY 10, L.A. Raiders 6; HOUSTON 17, N.Y. Jets 10
• Divisional playoffs: DENVER 26, Houston 24; BUFFALO 37, Kansas City 14
• AFC Championship: BUFFALO 10, Denver 7 at Rich Stadium, Buffalo, New York
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NFC

• Wild-Card playoffs: Atlanta 27, NEW ORLEANS 20; Dallas 17, CHICAGO 13
• Divisional playoffs: WASHINGTON 24, Atlanta 7; DETROIT 38, Dallas 6
• NFC Championship: WASHINGTON 41, Detroit 10 at RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C.
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Super Bowl

• Super Bowl XXVI
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