 Both the NFL and AFL had provisions prior to their merger to allow for two weeks of one-game playoffs if three or four teams tied for a division title.Despite the relatively high probability of such a tie happening in a 12 or 14 game schedule compared to a longer season, this scenario never took place prior to the abolition of one-game playoffs.The closest a three-way tie for a division came to happening was in 1957 when the Detroit Lions, San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Colts all entered the final week of the season with identical 7-4 records.