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From: roth@ut-sally.UUCP (Mark Roth)
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: Re: Whither the USFL?
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Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 20:43:15 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 12 20:43:15 1985
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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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!