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That would be because it is. Palatine Send a noteboard - 05/01/2014 03:36:37 PM

View original postThe point of the season isn't to make sure the best two teams play in one single game. The post season is great fun but it really just icing and typically isn't even the best games of the year. Despite all the hype the regular season is the heart of the NFL not the few games at the end. It is also so where the drama is for the greatest number of fans and most teams make most of their money so don't expect the NFL to make changes that will make a large number of late season games irrelevant.

The point is to win the championship. The Super Bowl determines the champion.

The two best teams don't often play each other for the championship in any sport and haven't for decades now.


View original postI was born a Cowboys fan and I have watched them win a lot of post season games including 5 Super Bowls but the game I enjoyed the most is when a terrible Cowboys beat the Red Skins in a regular season game. Take away the divisions and you take a way the rivalries. Football would not be as much if you didn't rivals to hate. Sure I hate the 49s because the Cowboys met them so many times in the Championship game but anywhere near as much as I hate the Giants.

It's less so in football, but with with free agency, rivalries don't mean so much anymore. Without the same core of players year after year, the players themselves don't care about the rivalries, and that lack of feeling bleeds through. Also, because of that, rivalries wax and wane depending on the fortunes of the two teams involved. For example, the Raiders and Chiefs used to be an intense rivalry, but with how bad the Raiders have been for the last 15 years, it's not even close. When both the Cowboys and Redskins were good teams every year, that was a nice rivalry. Now, while the Cowboys have been relatively good most years and the Redskins' winning percentage acting like a yo-yo, it's not even close to the same.

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