Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!roth From: roth@ut-sally.UUCP (Mark Roth) Newsgroups: net.sport.football Subject: Re: Whither the USFL? Message-ID: <2338@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 20:43:15 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-sally.2338 Posted: Fri Jul 12 20:43:15 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Jul-85 21:16:12 EDT References: <8994@ucbvax.ARPA> Reply-To: roth@ut-sally.UUCP (Mark Roth) Followup-To: net.sport.football Distribution: net Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 15 Keywords: USFL, NFL, merger, realignment Summary: rearranging teams hard to push through As is always the case when you suggest divisional realignment you are going to hear it from the traditional rivalry people. For example, you moved Miami away from the Jets. Dallas from Washington. and others. These games bring in lots of viewers and lots of money, so it would be hard to convince the powers to be to change them. I like your first choice for playoffs. Wild card teams are usually has beens anyway. One good reason to have them is you might catch a team that got hot at the end of the season but had a bad start...maybe we should look at the last 10 games of the season win/loss record to see who should play? I don't think so, as another purpose of wildcards is to reward runner ups who are really good but had an even hotter team finish ahead of them. But then with only 4 teams in a division this is less likely to happen. Less than a month till preseason starts!