OT: NFL faces calls to change playoff format after snowstorm during Patriots-Broncos

[SammyBlueCat]

NFL faces calls to change playoff format after snowstorm during Patriots-Broncos

 

[SammyBlueCat]

Florio proposes the NFL moves its championship games to neutral sites in order to avoid similar situations going forward. The intrepid NFL Insider says the issue has already been discussed.

What nonsense...

 

[TommyD4207]

Moving conference championship games to neutral sites makes playoff seeding irrelevant.

 

[A Defiant Goose]

What nonsense...

I hope it was discussed and then laughed out of the building.

What is this, March Madness where we play all 12 playoff games in one indoor stadium?

 

[neckroll#14]

Patriots win: Change the rules... nothing new under the sun...

 

[fnordcircle]

Bill Polian's back I guess.

 

[BUSTAMOVE]

Laughable

 

[KCSVEN]

Click bait story, zero chance of happening

 

[Pape]

Moving conference championship games to neutral sites makes playoff seeding irrelevant.

There is no reason good enough to take away HFA for any team that has earned it... The AFCCG not in Denver? We win by a landslide, no question in my mind...

 

[Pape]

I hope it was discussed and then laughed out of the building.

What is this, March Madness where we play all 12 playoff games in one indoor stadium?

i know you were kidding, but don't give those idiots any ideas...

 

[sb1]

The Patriots won. Dis not fair!
- The Nihilists

 

[Pape]

Bill Polian's back I guess.

i hate that rat faced ****er

 

[PatsFan2]

They should go back to the old Playoffs Format where the Two Top Teams get a bye week. That extra playoffs Team is not needed.

 

[ScottishPatriots]

As soon as you take away home field advantage in a championship game you massively lessen the regular season and the reason the NFL is so great is every game matters, under this scenario you could almost just build yourself in a bye week like NBA teams do on back to backs and just rest everyone at any moment.

The difference between a 1 and 2 seed is no longer as valuable, the first round bye is great but you can just take your own self created "bye week" whenever you want in this scenario and be a 2 seed and then should you both get to the championship game the 1 seed no longer has any advantage.

I think the fact the game was in Denver was a bigger advantage than them playing one less game against the Chargers, if you do this you're as well dumbing down the regular season completely letting half the league in the playoffs and having no byes and just turning it into an NHL style crap shoot where seeding means nothing and the 8 seed is as likely to win as the 1 seed.

The old format with 6 teams and 2 byes was the best, the 7 seed has brought nothing but 2 extra playoff games for the NFL to sell to TV, the 7 seed has only ever won once against the 2 so far.

 

[Steve102]

"You want to change the rules? Change them. We still play. And we win. That's what we do." - Tedy Bruschi

 

[Wingy]

Moving conference championship games to neutral sites makes playoff seeding irrelevant.

Sure but they can make more money!!! ‍smh

 

[jmt57]

When a sport expands from 13 weeks (12 regular season games plus one playoff game), to 23 weeks long, then of course events like this will frequently happen. What did you expect?

But for pompous high-and-mighty knee-jerks such as Florio, this is disingenous revisionist history. Nobody was advocating for the league to have championship games moved to a neutral site after one of the most famous games in NFL history, the Ice Bowl, which determined the NFL champion in a game played in Decemberof 1967.

Even if you play the game at a neutral site, who's to say there won't be a torrential downpour that day. Play indoors? That's completely antithetical for football purist snobs. Besides, it give a major competitive advantage to certain teams that are built for speed on a carpet.

You don't want the elements to be a factor? Then have a season that starts in early September and ends Thanksgiving Day weekend, similar to what high school football used to be back in the day. There's a better chance of me hitting the next powerball than that ever happening.

 

[TheRainMaker]

Rage bait article. You know the Pats are back when it makes media, players and coaches start imploding.

 

[Koma]

It’s been reported that Goodell has retained Bill Nye the Science Guy to build a weather machine to ensure good weather for playoff games.

 

[Hugepatsfan]

Hate the idea. I get why they do it for the Super Bowl because it's such a massive event that you really need a designated site to prepare. You can't just spring that on a team that wins the championship game. It's not just a football thing, the whole municipality has to prepare. Public transportation, policing, etc.

Championship weekend does not impose the same burden on the cities that this is needed. It would have a greatly reduced atmosphere because you aren't going to get the same kind of neutral fan interest in the games like you do the Super Bowl. Just awful all around. And none of that even gets to mentioning how it's such bull **** for competition.