NFL: NFL Considering Expansion
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I don’t believe the lawsuit will lead to an expansion team for st Louis. The nfl absolutely screwed the city and the city leaders are pissed and have the nfl by the balls.
I follow some of the St. Louis sports reporters and the sentiment across the city is that they will not build a stadium through public financing anymore. Building a new stadium (which is what stl will demand) as well as an expansion team will be more expensive then the bullion or so stl will win.
I guess the billion dollar question is will that be prioritized over Kroenke and the nfl getting humiliated if this thing goes to court
I follow some of the St. Louis sports reporters and the sentiment across the city is that they will not build a stadium through public financing anymore. Building a new stadium (which is what stl will demand) as well as an expansion team will be more expensive then the bullion or so stl will win.
I guess the billion dollar question is will that be prioritized over Kroenke and the nfl getting humiliated if this thing goes to court
The Rams owner moving out of St Louis and telling the other owners to commit fraud (or whatever dirty deed to exit StL) but he’ll take the blame only to back out of covering losses and potentially causing the shield and it’s owners BILLIONS in damages could be worse…
36 teams means six divisions of 3 in each conference. Play your own division home and away (4 games), two of the other five in your own conference (6 games), two of the six in the opposite conference (6 games), and then two games against teams that finished in the same position as you in their division from the remaining three divisions in your conference. That’s 18 games, 16 of which are shared with your divisionmates for fairness.
8 playoff teams per conference; no byes. But the two wild cards get seeds 7 and 8 to promote winning divisions.
If they expanded with STL, SA, LON, and TOR, divisions could look something like:
NFC:
1 - SEA, SF, LAR
2 - ARI, STL, NO
3 - MIN, GB, CHI
4 - TB, ATL, CAR
5 - NYG, PHI, DET
6 - DAL, SA, WAS
AFC:
1 - LV, LAC, DEN
2 - HOU, KC, IND
3 - CIN, CLE, PIT
4 - NYJ, NE, LON
5 - MIA, JAX, TEN
6 - BAL, BUF, TOR
8 playoff teams per conference; no byes. But the two wild cards get seeds 7 and 8 to promote winning divisions.
If they expanded with STL, SA, LON, and TOR, divisions could look something like:
NFC:
1 - SEA, SF, LAR
2 - ARI, STL, NO
3 - MIN, GB, CHI
4 - TB, ATL, CAR
5 - NYG, PHI, DET
6 - DAL, SA, WAS
AFC:
1 - LV, LAC, DEN
2 - HOU, KC, IND
3 - CIN, CLE, PIT
4 - NYJ, NE, LON
5 - MIA, JAX, TEN
6 - BAL, BUF, TOR
The NFL has a perfect setup with 8 pods of 4, and they want to go and mess it up.
Good work analyzing & constructing divisions/playoff setup.
But wow, that would blow up a TON of longtime division rivalries.
A lot of people probably think of Mexico City as being by Texas..It is a long way from Texas. Think of driving to Las Vegas from Des Moines. That's how far away Mexico City is from the Texas border.
Yeah...he was Jerry Jones' puppet during this move...it was orchestrated by Jones...Kroenke (sp??) is a greedy guy for sure but he had full-support of Jerry at the time! Maybe Jerry is being given a bit of his own medicine!
For the same reason people seem to start dating their ex spouse. They may have slept around and had a drinking problem, but I’m familiar with those problems.
Yeah, my OCD doesn’t like this expansion talk.
I personally know someone who was kidnapped and held for ransom in Mexico City. BY COPS.
There may be worse people that are owners but the Spanos clan has a unique combination of sheer ineptness, a trust fund baby’s sense of “the world owes me everything”, and a complete lack of willingness to actually work for anything. Poppa Spanos made a killing in real estate development and handed his kids the golden goose off an NFL team. His kids, and now his grandkids, have spent the last thirty years doing everything they can to run it into the ground. If there was an open market option to bet against the Spanos decisions you could make a fortune. Everything they do turns out wrong.
Following your conferences, here is what that looks like on the map:
NCF: I put WAS with PHI+NYG, DET with STL+NO, and ARI with DAL+SA
AFC:
If they go with MC instead of LON, I would group them with HOU+MIA, then do JAX+TEN+KC, IND+CLE+CIN, PIT+BUF+TOR, and BAL+NE+NYJ.
It wasn't quite overnight. There were at least negotiations with the city which led to the team name and history not leaving with the club. Now the Colts on the other hand...
6x6 would seem more obvious to me.
Keeping your set of teams...
NFC
East = CAR, DAL, NYG, PHI, TOR, WAS
Central = CHI, DET, GB, MIN, STL, TB
West = ATL, AZ, NO, LAR, SF, SEA
AFC
East = BUF, JAX, LON, MIA, NE, NYJ
Central = BAL, CIN, CLE, IND, PIT, TEN
West = DEN, HOU, KC, LV, LAC, SA
Breaks the two south divisions up, but they have the weakest rivalries.
Atlanta and New Orleans in the West bothers me (Just like it does in the NBA), need to come up with names for conferences that aren't geographic in nature if you're gonna go this route IMO.
Depends on the fanbase. CFL is similar to American college in that places that don't have NHL or NBA franchises draw extremely well (Saskatchewan, Hamilton) and in the big markets, it's down the totem pole (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver).
I have a lot of family in Canada, and the impression I get is that almost everyone who gives a **** about sports follows CFL, but only about half the franchises draw good attendance. Saskatchewan, Hamilton, Edmonton, and Winnipeg are probably the best attended percentage-wise. A lot of the big market teams have moved into smaller stadiums recently to create a better atmosphere.
I've been to the Winnipeg stadium shortly after it opened. It's absolutely gorgeous. Saskatchewan's new stadium is across the road from where my grandpa grew up, and that's an awesome stadium too.
