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From: mcal@ihuxb.UUCP (Mike Clifford)
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: Re: Whither the USFL?
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Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 13:53:43 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 15 13:53:43 1985
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> 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