The Super Bowl is becoming meaningless - Page 7 - New England Patriots Forums

FirstAndGoal · 09-09-2007, 07:39 AM

Maybe we should bring back the XFL. lol

09-09-2007, 08:08 AM

No need to fix what ain't broke. AFC/NFC dominance is cyclical. Existing NFL championship format is the best by far of all the major sports.

godef · 09-09-2007, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by JoePats

The NFC won 15 straight Super Bowls at one point, so the AFC dominance is in its infancy compared to that stretch...It's completely cyclical...The AFC teams do not have a competitive advantage over the NFC ones, it's not like the high payroll teams are in one conference and the low ones in others...It's all the same.

That wasn't quite the same. If you add up all the won-less records of either conference during those years, you would see their records are fairly even. It's just the the NFC kept coming up with the one or two dominant teams (Dallas & San Francisco, Green Bay), but they also had some of the worse teams too (no "anti-kudos" for teh bad teams). Compared to now where the NFC sometimes only produces 4 or 5 winning teams in the whole conference, and the won-loss records between the two are really lopsided, something like 40-24 last year, which is grossly significant at such a scale.

smg93 · 09-09-2007, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Deus Irae

That's useless. One loss by a higher seed and the whole thing's a wreck. Think NCAA basketball tournament.

JEEZ!!!! HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SAY IT. IT'S NOT ABOUT GUARANTEEING THAT THE TWO BEST TEAMS PLAY IN THE SUPERBOWL ITS ABOUT GIVING THEM THE CHANCE SHOULD THEY WIN ALL OF THEIR MATCHUPS. IT'S A SIMPLE CONCEPT.