Slagathor

I've been listening and watching the media talk alot about parity in the NFL this week.

They discuss how Pete Rozelle actually wanted to create parity in the league.......the goal being, every year........all teams had a chance to be champs.

They talk about what a failure it is, but no one seems to address why?

The reason is simple.

Everybody has equal money to work with.
Everybody has access to great talent through free agency.

But if you don't have luck or you don't have smart/wily ownership and management, you'll be a perrenial also ran.

Regardless if you try to equal the playing field, there is no equalizer for stupidity and bad business.

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Ishdul

Parity means having a league where teams don, not where there's rapid changes in who makes the playoffs from year to year. To that end, the MLB is the league with parity; no 100 win team this year, no 60 win team either, just a bunch of teams that are between 65 and 95 wins.

A season like the 2002-2003 year where the best teams in the NFL had 12 wins, the Raiders won the AFC with 11 wins and you had like 20 teams in the playoff picture in the final week, that' a season with parity. This year, teams like the Patriots, Colts, Cowboys and Steelers should all win a jackload of games while the Bills, Falcons, Rams and Dolphins all look classically awful.

DynastyDriven

Slag: What happened to your BB is/needs to resign theory?

*coughs* 2013 *coughs*

Slagathor

I swear on both of my children that I love more than life itself.........

My post was, that with all the bad publicity camera-gate caused the Pats......

.......and with how conscious Bob and Myra Kraft are of having the Pats maintain a sterling reputation..........

the controversy might have forced Kraft to have BB resign. That was my argument.

Not that he needs to resign. Not that he should. That's one thing that bugged me.

Nobody READ the post throughly. It was speculation on my part.

If anything I totally under-estimated the Krafts. Of that I am guilty and I'm extremely happy my speculation was wrong.

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signbabybrady

the whole parity thing is a stupid thing....regardless of the rules when a team gets good players want to play there making it a little easier to stay there.

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Slagathor

Tell Ty Law that.

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QuiGon

I don't think it has been a failure. Part of parity is set up so that no team enjoy a financial advantage over any other, like the Yankees do over Tampa Bay.

With parity, the cream is still going to rise to the top. Better run teams will succeed and poorly run teams will fail.

patsgo

that was the biggest over reaction ive ever read here, look at it the other way,what do you think the fan base would do if he fired bb or made him resign?thats a pr nightmare

MetalBleachers

I agree. Look at the Cowboys: they were great in the '90s, had an up-and-down run, and now look strong again. The Texans seem to have found their QB and have drafted well on D. The once-great Rams appear to stink.

Our experience as Pats fans over the past seven years is the rarest of rare, and even this team went 5-11 in 2000.

Here's the best example of parity: since the year 2000 (Ravens/Giants SB), only one team has even appeared in the SB more than once, much less won it.

I think we all know who that team is.

betterthanthealternative

The teams DON'T all have the same amount of money to work with. They have the same limits on payroll, and there is some revenue sharing, but some teams have far more revenue than do others. The Krafts have built the Pats into a major business that provides the team with much more income than most teams in the league. And it helps the team win.