Bears fans, you know I'm right. BWAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAH!!!
Posted on 12/29/2013 5:22:08 PM PST by Texas Eagle
Awright. I've had all I can take and I can't takes it no more.
Every year I fret and fume about the unfairness of the NFL playoffs. This year I'm doing something about it. That's right. I'm posting a thread on FR. I realize this is about as futile as expecting Jesse Jackson to stop being a deadbeat dad but, so be it. Fret me much.
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Having each team play every team every other year still doesn’t cut it. Each team goes through about 1/3 turnover from year to year, so next year’s version of Team X really won’t be the same team as this year’s. So you’re still stuck with the fact that you won’t play all the teams this year and your record could be highly effect by the quality of your opponents. Teams will always be able to luck into an easy schedule, just because teams fluctuate in quality, a couple of early injuries can change everything (look at this year’s Falcon’s from almost representing the NFC in the Super Bowl to 4-12 large because of 4 or 5 injuries suffered in game 1). Heck teams change dramatically over the course of the season because of injuries and experience (look at the first 1/4 Panthers vs the rest of the season Panthers).
This system works for all it’s trying to accomplish. It’s trying to keep as many regular season games exciting as possible, it’s trying to give as many teams as possible a definable “shot” at the post season, and it’s trying to make as much money as possible.
Any “rivalry” in the Ryder Cup was quenched long ago, nobody really cares about it, especially not the players.
Let me guess. Next you will want them not to keep score so we won’t hurt anyone’s feelings. What others ways can we further wimpify the NFL?
I don't know if that was really a factor at all. The NFL didn't have divisions until 1933, and at that time most of the teams were concentrated in the Northeast. There weren't any teams located west of Green Bay, Wisconsin or south of Cincinnati, Ohio. I don't think the NFL had a West Coast team until the Rams moved from Cleveland to Los Angeles in 1946.
Rivalries may not have been the original reason, but, IMO, it sure has evolved into it. Take tonight's game for instance. GO EAGLES!!
If everybody liked the playoff system what could we rant about. People enjoys rants! Ranting gets the blood pumping. Once you have ranted you have a feeling the your not just another dumb fan but a super smart fan. And if we didn’t have these stupid rules the San Diego Charges would not be in the play offs with their mediocre record. I lived in near San Diego while in high school thus am duty bound to be a fan if I want to maintain certain relationships with some of my old friends. And some of their parents. I always like football better in high school because you could not smell the players.
The original reason for HOW the divisions were divided was about travel time. But the EXISTENCE of divisions was different, it’s to create rivalries. Nothing gins up hate like seeing the same opponent over and over again. In every sport the biggest rivalries are the division rivalries, it’s why they’ll never get rid of them, it’s why the NHL recently changed the playoff format to increase the importance of divisions. Rivalries are good for the cash register.
This is a great thread you've started, Texas Eagle!
It wasn't always so. The Rams and Saints were pretty darn good a lot of the time. In 1988, The 49ers, Saints, and Rams were tied at 10-6 and the 49ers won the Super Bowl, but the other two teams were darn good. In 1989 the Rams were probably the 2nd best team in football.
My premise is fine. I acknowledge my mistake as regards to Chicago. A faux pas.
Green Bay ended up with a similarly crappy record that Chicago would've ended up with.
So my premise stands. If Chicago had won, they'd've had a worse record than Arizona and would've made the playoffs while Arizona wouldn't've.
Obviously I've watched football or I wouldn't give a damn. The whole reason I started this thread is because Arizona got screwed.
No it shouldn’t be. Because it CAN’T be. Since all teams can’t play each other, and even if they could the injury rate is high enough that teams change dramatically over the course of a season, it quite simply can’t be “fair”. And attempts to make it otherwise are just spitting in the wind. There’s one important chunk of fairness in the league, you and your divisional rivals will play mostly the same teams, thus your records will be results based on like opponents, if you win your division you’re in. That’s as close to fair as it gets, and anybody that has a problem with it needs to suck it up.
Only in the NFL is Dallas considered part of the East.
New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC and Dallas....As the song goes......”One of these things is not like the others.....”
You’re going to see the same controversy in the NHL when this season ends, too. If the playoffs began now, the Eastern Conference would have a number of teams that get into the playoffs on the strength of their division records even though their records are worse than some others that won’t even qualify for the wild card spots.
Bears fans, you know I'm right. BWAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAH!!!
I'm not suggesting making the divisions larger. I'm suggesting doing away with them.
Rank the teams 1 to 32 based on their records.
Rivalries would still exist. They would most likely even intensify because it would take longer to exact revenge.
As it is now, you win one game against your rival and then a few weeks later you lose one game against your rival.
Big whoop. No smoldering resentment.
In 1991 the 49ers were 10-6 and clobbered the Bears, who were going to the playoffs, by 52-14 in the last game. They could have beaten both Super Bowl teams. But that's irrelevant because they didn't win their own division.
And the perplexing attitude and firm belief of football fans is that you can have 32 teams in the league each with a winning record if they each had a right coach and the right players. It is achievable, isn’t it, boys?
So answer the question, DID AL GORE GET SCREWED??
Major League Baseball went through a period a while back where the Atlanta Braves were in the National League West. In that case, I think it was because they had previously been put in the West when they were the Milwaukee Braves, and the NL just didn't have teams in the right places to balance the two divisions.
You sound like a typical lefty. “The rules should be changed retroactively” “My feelings are hurt” “Waaaaa”
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