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Neither is the NFL.Jerry isn't giving up 3 games in the highly populated northeast.
Neither is the NFL.Jerry isn't giving up 3 games in the highly populated northeast.
The NHL did this to a degree and everyone hates it.forget realignment, just do away with the silliness of playing your division rivals twice.
Play well and win. that's the fairest way for the best teams to advance. Today the league is the #1 sport and there is as much parity as you can get in team sports. Those old motives don't exist anymore. people will complain about change because its change but overall it would be a better product and new rivalries would emerge.What you're saying is the league would then be saying that some divisions just don't matter. Right now every division winner in both conferences goes to the playoffs and then starting this season the 3 teams with the best records after the divisional winners in each conference also go to the playoffs. So you're say that maybe there may be a team that doesn't get into the playoffs because the league doesn't take the stance of not caring about all divisions and saying to bad XYorZ division you don't count this season? How long do you think the owners of the teams in that division will keep quite and not demand that all divisions be represented in the playoffs? When there was just 14 teams in the entire league and it was the Eastern conference again the Western Conference for the NFL championship the owners were already squawking about some fairer way for teams to play for the championship. The fairest way is for all divisions to have a shot in the playoffs.
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I did like this post, but as I sat here writing a reply as to why I think it may be a good idea, I have thought of why it is better the way it is. I see your logic, but current method plays to strength within division then within conference, four games in other conference, then a few games against rivals from recent years past. Basically you prove it against your division rivals who like you play against same conference opponents... kinda like my team represents the NFC because they won not just in playoffs but proved their worth during regular season. If they just play 8 in afc and 8 in nfc, then they just prove they can win, not represent, besides do you really wanna see the two teams in the superbowl play a second game against each other in the same year (higher chance at that with the 8 games in each conference)
Don't follow the NHL so I can't draw any comparisons.The NHL did this to a degree and everyone hates it.
OK. Thanks for knowing I’m “that type of person”. I guess you should just go by Nostra*******.No you would rather throw out 60 years of history because you don't like how a couple of teams have been down for a few years. You're the type of person that if there was a realignment and the Cowboys ended up in a much tougher division and hasn't won a title inn a few years would be one of the first to question why they did the realignment in the first place.
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That doesn't really happen, and it certainly doesn't happen when that 11-5 team didn't play in a crappy division anyway.Don't follow the NHL so I can't draw any comparisons.
I know that seeing an 11-5 team left out of the playoffs while another team gets in as division winner just because there had to be a division winner is criminal.
That would destroy the one and only reason the Cowboys are "America's Team".I know this is not the year to mention it or even in the near future. But what happens if the NFL decides to expand the number of teams. Or even another team moves across the country in the NFC.
I love our rivals and our matches against the Eagles, "Washington", Giants, but how would you feel in swapping conferences with the the Panthers to put us in the South and them in the East. It would create a new dynamic and change up rivals for a while.
It is something to think about, however, I don't think the Cowboys vs. Saints/Falcons/Bucs have the same rivalry as the classics. It would definitely help with travel and location based rivalries. Personally I would love a 4 team add of foreign or new markets, and moving to a 3 divisions per league division setting. Works well with the new playoff format.
I am bored, just noticed an article on this recently and it had me thinking.
Play well and win. that's the fairest way for the best teams to advance. Today the league is the #1 sport and there is as much parity as you can get in team sports. Those old motives don't exist anymore. people will complain about change because its change but overall it would be a better product and new rivalries would emerge.
OK. Thanks for knowing I’m “that type of person”. I guess you should just go by Nostra*******.
First, I would keep the East. Plus the NFL is not going to move America's Team for playing games in America's most populated areas of NY, Philly, and Washington. Too much money and ratings.I know this is not the year to mention it or even in the near future. But what happens if the NFL decides to expand the number of teams. Or even another team moves across the country in the NFC.
I love our rivals and our matches against the Eagles, "Washington", Giants, but how would you feel in swapping conferences with the the Panthers to put us in the South and them in the East. It would create a new dynamic and change up rivals for a while.
It is something to think about, however, I don't think the Cowboys vs. Saints/Falcons/Bucs have the same rivalry as the classics. It would definitely help with travel and location based rivalries. Personally I would love a 4 team add of foreign or new markets, and moving to a 3 divisions per league division setting. Works well with the new playoff format.
I am bored, just noticed an article on this recently and it had me thinking.
I guess it went over your head. Shocker.Gee if you don't know how to spell Nostradamus you could just look it up.
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Crazy idea but a complete realignment. Also, allows Arizona to move to Mexico city. Baltimore to move to London, or NY jets to move to Toronto.
Exactly. The NFC South is blah. Meh to the Falcons and Bucs. Saints are annoying. They want a rivalry with us so badly.Cowboys-Saints would become an intense rivalry I think, but Cowboys-Falcons? Cowboys-Bucs?..Nah lol
Jerry isn't giving up 3 games in the highly populated northeast.
That doesn't really happen, and it certainly doesn't happen when that 11-5 team didn't play in a crappy division anyway.
The bigger thing is that rivalries are good for sports, and the Cowboys playing say, the Chargers more often, instead of playing the Giants twice is a lot less interesting.
Sure, but it's not a glaring problem like people make it out to be. There's always a team or two good enough to be in but doesn't get in for whatever reasons.11-5, 10-6 teams do occasionally get left out to inferior teams who won their division. So the system does have some issues that could be addressed.
Don't get me wrong I like the rivalries, I loath the igglets and love to beat their ***** every chance we get. They feel the same way I know! But the former skins are just a dumpster fire and the gmen, other than Barkley, are boring as hell. Neither of those teams are great rivalry games anymore.
But to say new match ups would be less interesting is really just your opinion. It certainly wouldn't be if you're a Charger fan using your example. I'm sure they'd love to play the Cowboys more often. I'd love to see us play the Raiders twice a year, I think that could turn into a great rivalry and quickly. KC is another one. Houston is too.
First, you would still be playing the historic rivals but not necessarily twice a year. So those haven't been lost.Here's the huge flaws in your idea. You say there's more parity in the NFL than any other team sport and that realignment would be better because of new rivalries. First things first. If there is more parity in the NFL and I do agree that there is, changing teams around doesn't take away parity. They will have the same salary cap and the same drafting system. Then realigning the league will be a better product? What will happen is the same very tiny microscopic vocal minority of all NFL fans will in a few years say they are tired of the current rivalries and start yelping for another realignment. But then the vast majority of NFL fans will ask just how does realigning the NFL become a better product? They will ask why does removing many many many long decades of history and long standing rivalries that they look forward to every year become a better product. It doesn't for the hugely vast majority of NFL fans. If watching games with the current alignment is so difficult may I suggest don't watch and then you won't have to worry about having to watch historical rivalries.
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