During the NFL's annual league meeting last week, the Detroit Lions made a proposal to change the league's playoff format. The interesting thing about the proposal is that it didn't get voted down. Although the NFL's 32 owners didn't approve the change,

Troy Vincent, the NFL's executive vice president of football operations, pushed for the Detroit Lions' proposal to change the NFL playoff seeding structure, whereas teams would be ranked by win-loss record regardless of whether they won the division.

The Lions proposed changing the seeding structure of the league's playoffs to favor a team's overall record over its place in the division. This would've favored the Minnesota Vikings, who finished 14-3 after losing the battle for the division lead against the Lions in the last game of last season.