Saturday, January 3, 2009

Realigned NFL

Just messing around. I did this because of the decided lack of teams in the western half of the continent.

NFL West - Seattle, San Francisco, Oakland, San Diego, Arizona, Denver, Kansas City, St. Louis.
NFL East - Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, NY Jets, NY Giants, Buffalo, New England, Tennessee, Indianapolis.
NFL North - Minnesota, Green Bay, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinatti, Baltimore, Washington
NFL South - Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, Atlanta, Carolina, Jacksonville, Tampa Bay, Miami

**Alternatively, KC and St. Louis are put in the South division, and Dallas and Houston switch to the West.**

Teams play 16 games each in a season, playing all teams in their own division twice, and two of the 24 other teams, in a 12-year cycle.

The season could also be expanded to 18 games by replacing two of the preseason games with games that actually count. This would allow each team to see every other team in a 6-year cycle. Maybe even 20 games? That's 14 against divisional opponents, and 6 others, to see every other team in 4 years.

The top 4 teams in each division make the playoffs. 1 plays 4, 2 plays 3.
(Alternatively, the top 3 in each division make the playoffs, allowing for the top 4 teams in the playoffs to earn byes to the second round, like it is in the NFL now.)

The winners of each division are re-seeded 1-4, with #1 playing #4 and #2 playing #3.
The best two teams go to the Superbowl.

Alternatively:

All 32 teams are ranked 1-32. The best 16 or 12 or whatever make the playoffs.

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