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    NFL Tournament?

    They could scrape their way into having a 2011 season with only six weeks of regular season. Each division plays a double round robin (home and away). The top 16 make the playoffs, with the "group" winners getting home field, and second place teams seeded against them.

    In a pinch, they could complete an entire season with a relatively meaningful and fairly determined outcome in ten weeks.
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    I'm thinking they will want eight regular-season games at minimum, but more likely ten games per team. If they skip the bye week, move the Super Bowl to 2/12 (a contingency that Indy has already been asked to be prepared for), and eliminate the off week between the conference championships and the Super Bowl, they could conceivably start the season as late as Thanksgiving weekend. They could even consider having just four teams from each conference making the playoffs (eliminating the wild cards) to save yet another week.
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      Are we talking the National Foosball League?
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      • #4
        Originally posted by comfortably numb View Post
        Are we talking the National Foosball League?
        Sure seems like that, don't it...
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          It'd be like the World Cup, except with the kind of football Americans like, and with pretty much only Americans playing, in the correct time zones and without vuvuzelas.

          I predict success.
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            In a shortened season, they'd be more likely to let more teams into the playoff "tournament" rather than fewer. The logic being that a less-than-complete regular season does a less-than-complete job of separating the worthy from the not-worthy.

            I think Marc's proposal could work, but the biggest drawback might be fashioning a 6-game schedule from scratch and making the dates line up with stadium availability. In other words, the venues will have games slotted based on the 16 (or 18)-game schedule that gets announced in April. If things go awry and they wind up cobbling a 6-game, divisional games-only schedule after the fact, there could be date conflicts at certain stadiums that prevent a schedule from fitting neatly into the 6 available weeks. And they probably wouldn't want any teams playing 3 in a row at home or away, putting further restrictions on the plan. It would be especially tricky for the Jets and Giants, for obvious reasons.

            Granted, the NFL is the 800 pound gorilla, so they can probably call the shots as far as stadium availability is concerned. But, not without a cost, if other contracted events need to be cancelled/moved.

            If they could make the 6-game "World Cup" of football work, they could start the season as late as December 11, if my math is correct.

            Hopefully, we'll never find out "how low they would go."

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