Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihuxb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!ihuxb!mcal From: mcal@ihuxb.UUCP (Mike Clifford) Newsgroups: net.sport.football Subject: Re: Whither the USFL? Message-ID: <1099@ihuxb.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 13:53:43 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxb.1099 Posted: Mon Jul 15 13:53:43 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 06:20:14 EDT References: <8994@ucbvax.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 32 > The USFL consolidates into four franchises, ... > ARIZONA: Arizona, Houston, Memphis, San Antonio > BALTIMORE: Baltimore, Jacksonville, New Jersey > BIRMINGHAM: Birmingham, Orlando, Tampa Bay > OAKLAND: Oakland, Denver, Los Angeles, Portland > Now you've got four new franchises, and they aren't all that bad. Give them > an early draft choice or two, and they certainly shouldn't start off 0-16. > Baltimore and Oakland join the AFC, and Arizona and Birmingham join the > NFC. Everybody else stays where they are. Now reorganize each conference into > four 4-team divisions. The geography is mostly very reasonable. > > NFC > East Central South West > Detroit Chicago Atlanta Arizona > NY Giants Green Bay Birmingham Dallas > Philadelphia Minnesota New Orleans LA Rams > Washington St. Louis Tampa Bay San Francisco > > AFC > East Central Midwest West > Baltimore Cincinnati Denver LA Raiders > Buffalo Cleveland Houston Oakland > New England Miami Indianapolis San Diego > NY Jets Pittsburgh Kansas City Seattle > Any comments? Am I out of my tree? Would the NFL sit still for this? Would > the USFL buy it if they did? > Bill Laubenheimer > ----------------------------------------UC-Berkeley Computer Science Alot of great traditional rivalries would be terminated or shortened to one regular season meeting a year: Wash-Dallas, StL-Dallas, Det-MN or Chgo or GB. I bet the NFL and TV would balk because of this alone. Mike Clifford