NFL expansion

[laughedatbytime]

Add four expansion teams, bring the league to 36. Add them in LA, Las Vegas, Portland and Toronto.

 

Go back to the old "East/West/Central" divisions, but add a "North/South" subdivision within them. Top team from each subdivision makes the playoffs so long as they have a .500 record or better. If they don't, then a wildcard from the other side of their division makes it. If the second team there isn't at .500, it falls back to a conference wildcard.

 

The divisions would look as such:

NFC East (North) New York, Philadelphia, Toronto. (South) Dallas, Washington, Carolina.

NFC Central (North) Minnesota, Green Bay, Chicago. (South) Detroit, Tampa, Atlanta.

NFC West (North) Seattle, San Francisco, St Louis. (South) LA, New Orleans, Arizona.

 

AFC East (North) New England, New York, Buffalo. (South) Miami, Jacksonville, Tennessee.

AFC Central (North) Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Cleveland. (South) Cincy, Houston, Indianapolis.

AFC West (North) Denver, Portland, Kansas City. (South) San Diego, Oakland, Las Vegas

 

Each team would play their two subdivisional opponents twice, and would play their three other divisional opponents once each. Season goes to 18 games with 2 byes for a 20 week regular season. No preseason.

 

So now, get me Goodell's number so I can get this done.

Please no.

[Rick N. Backer]

Put a team in Goatnut, TN. We got game!

Move the Lions there...please, please, please. Seriously, no need for additional teams but move at least one to LA. When you look at the divisions, they are seriously misaligned geographically. By shuffling the divisions, you may create more regional interest. For example, WTF is Miami in the East when the division should be Tampa, Jacksonville, Miami and Atl (and maybe New Orleans)? Same thing with Dallas...WTF are they in the east?

 

Miami probably belongs in the SEC. They wouldn't win it, but they'd be a solid .500 in conference.

New England belongs in the SEC because everyone (well, maybe not Vanderbilt) breaks the rules in that conference.

 

And most of the fans wouldn't have it any other way...at least it immunizes them against charges of hypocrisy which in their minds everyone else is because they don't know how to think any other way.

Brady will pay someone to get surgery to attend classes for him.

 

I'm pretty sure Michigan is a decent academic school. If he could stay eligible at Michigan I'm sure he could handle the SEC's rigorous academic standards.

Missed the point my friend. He Doesnt need to deflate balls, tape practices, or bug rooms either. He's actually pretty good. He would skip classes now not because he's dumb it would be because he can

If all that is true, they should put him in charge of the school of insurance there.

All what?

All the stuff they did.

Meh, we already have at least one thread about this. This is about expansion.

 

Good luck getting the tin foil hat wearing fellas to focus on ANYTHING else.

 

Or getting you folks wearing blinders to SEE reality.

 

I seem to recall a discussion we had where you placed a lot of weight on the fact that Ray Lewis wasn't found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt by a jury as suggesting he wasn't a murderer. Surely Brady prevailing in a lawsuit where he bore the burden of proof, and the NFL enjoyed a presumption that it's finding that the Patriots cheated was valid, should similarly mean that Brady did nothing wrong, no? I can say with some confidence that convicting a guilty man is harder than overturning an arbitration award.

[laughedatbytime]

Put a team in Goatnut, TN. We got game!

Move the Lions there...please, please, please. Seriously, no need for additional teams but move at least one to LA. When you look at the divisions, they are seriously misaligned geographically. By shuffling the divisions, you may create more regional interest. For example, WTF is Miami in the East when the division should be Tampa, Jacksonville, Miami and Atl (and maybe New Orleans)? Same thing with Dallas...WTF are they in the east?

 

Miami probably belongs in the SEC. They wouldn't win it, but they'd be a solid .500 in conference.

New England belongs in the SEC because everyone (well, maybe not Vanderbilt) breaks the rules in that conference.

 

And most of the fans wouldn't have it any other way...at least it immunizes them against charges of hypocrisy which in their minds everyone else is because they don't know how to think any other way.

Brady will pay someone to get surgery to attend classes for him.

 

I'm pretty sure Michigan is a decent academic school. If he could stay eligible at Michigan I'm sure he could handle the SEC's rigorous academic standards.

Missed the point my friend. He Doesnt need to deflate balls, tape practices, or bug rooms either. He's actually pretty good. He would skip classes now not because he's dumb it would be because he can

If all that is true, they should put him in charge of the school of insurance there.

All what?

All the stuff they did.

Meh, we already have at least one thread about this. This is about expansion.

 

Good luck getting the tin foil hat wearing fellas to focus on ANYTHING else.

 

Or getting you folks wearing blinders to SEE reality.

 

I seem to recall a discussion we had where you placed a lot of weight on the fact that Ray Lewis wasn't found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt by a jury as suggesting he wasn't a murderer. Surely Brady prevailing in a lawsuit where he bore the burden of proof, and the NFL enjoyed a presumption that it's finding that the Patriots cheated was valid, should similarly mean that Brady did nothing wrong, no? I can say with some confidence that convicting a guilty man is harder than overturning an arbitration award.

And it's harder to get your Social Security DI claim approved by some judges over others.

 

 

One gets the impression that you really do understand the law of large numbers, you just relish pretending that you don't.

[Fred Star]

What's the attraction of London (Wembley), England.. ?

[WorkingAllTheTime]

What's the attraction of London (Wembley), England.. ?

 

The club that moves there won't play in Wembley. It will be the new stadium for Tottenham Spurs (burrough of London). It's design specifically includes components to support an NFL franchise. In fact, the league just signed a 10 year host deal in Tottenham.

 

And the NFL has coveted London for a very long time. It is a city of 8.5M people, putting it on par with metro areas like San Francisco and Boston. Jacksonville, by the way, has a population of just under 1M in a state with 2 other franchises and another franchise just a few hours to the north in Atlanta.

 

Plus, the whole of Great Britain, which the league would certainly promote the team to, has 64.1M people.

 

That's the answer to your question is simple: London is a whole new, *very* large marketplace. Think about the TV rights in the UK and that contract. The jersey and other merchandise sales. The opportunity to launch into other, non-English speaking European countries down the road. The league is about one thing: Money. Pounds are not dollars, but they are still money.

 

By the way, reports are already surfacing that Shad Kahn, the owner of Jax who also happens to own EPL second division club Fulham, is interesting in buying EPL Tottenham and their soon-to-be shiny new stadium. Why oh why could that be?

 

Kahn, of course, adamantly denies these reports, which in NFL owner speak is, "Of course I am trying to move the team to London. Have you *seen* the uniforms and helmets I am putting on these clowns? I am purposefully trying to drive down merchandise and ticket sales to justify the move. Besides, Jacksonville is a shithole and London is..... London."

 

Mark my words. This will happen, likely within 5 years, 10 tops.

Edited November 25, 2015 by WorkingAllTheTime

[lerxt1990]

Is anyone interested in having the NFL add more teams, or expand the season? If they add teams, they don't have to add games, but it will be a great excuse to add a game or two.

 

I love the lay out right now, 4 teams per division, 4 divisions per conference... the schedule makes sense.

 

To hell with Goodell

 

The talent, especially at QB, is spread thin enough. Teams barely over (or not) .500 are vying for playoffs. No to expansion for goodness sakes.

[Rick N. Backer]

Is anyone interested in having the NFL add more teams, or expand the season? If they add teams, they don't have to add games, but it will be a great excuse to add a game or two.

 

I love the lay out right now, 4 teams per division, 4 divisions per conference... the schedule makes sense.

 

To hell with Goodell

 

The talent, especially at QB, is spread thin enough. Teams barely over (or not) .500 are vying for playoffs. No to expansion for goodness sakes.

 

Even worse, feeble players like Ryan Tannehill, who deserves to be paid minimum wage (not league minimum, federal minimum) are making outrageous money. So we know the owners make many bad decisions.