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Resolved Question: Why 40 years after the merger hasn’t the NFL abolished the conferences? Please see below?

Resolved Question: Why 40 years after the merger hasn’t the NFL abolished the conferences? Please see below?
Please read my thoughtful essay and reply thoughtfully. Please no “you don’t know nothing about football” or “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. I would leave the divisions and the way the schedule is drawn up exactly as it is now but eliminate the conferences. The 8 division winners would make the playoffs, (the 4 with the best records get first week byes, just like now). There would be 4 wild cards rather than 2 and 2. The teams would be seeded according to their season records. This system would have several advantages over what we have now: 1.The teams with the best records would make the playoffs. Nowadays this doesn’t always happen. And no, I am not a Pats fan still upset from 2 years ago. I’m not! 2.It would be theoretically possible for all 4 teams from a division to make the playoffs. What’s wrong with that? 3.It would be theoretically possible for 2 teams from the same division to play in the Super Bowl. What’s wrong with that? 4.It would keep the best teams away from each other until they had to play. Some years it has been obvious that the two best teams were in the same conference. 5.It would mean that any two teams could play in the Super Bowl. What would be wrong with having 2 former NFC teams or 2 former AFC teams in the big game? My reasoning is as follows: 1.It seems to me that 40 years after the merger the conferences only serve as a talking point for the fans and sports writers. Ask any player who played for the runner-up in the Super Bowl how much of a consolation their Conference Championship is to them. 2.The marketers like to be able to present the Super Bowl as a big Show-Down between the two best teams. But with the interconnecting schedule some years it’s not a showdown at all, it’s a rematch. And in some years it’s not the best two teams. 3.It’s not as if there was a long history of 2 leagues with slightly differing rules and styles of play as used to be the case with MLB. After all, it only took 6 years before a common draft was agreed to and 10 years for the full merger. 4.The NFL conferences have nothing to do with geography as is the case with the NHL and NBA. 5.It’s not like the conferences and their teams are carved in stone anyway. Remember that 3 teams moved from the National to the American at the time of the merger and more recently, Seattle moved from the AFC to the NFC. What do you think?

Open Question: What do you think of my 2010 MLB season predictions?
American League East New York Yankees117 45 Tampa Bay Rays9567 Boston Red Sox 8577 Toronto Blue Jays7983 Baltimore Orioles6399 Central Minnesota Twins8874 Chicago White Sox8181 Detroit Tigers 7191 Cleveland Indians6993 Kansas City Royals6597 West Seattle Mariners 8676 Los Angeles Angels 8577 Texas Rangers 7685 Oakland Athletics7488 National League East Philadelphia Phillies10656 New York Mets 8874 Atlanta Braves 7587 Florida Marlins 6597 Washington Nationals 54108 Central Houston Astros 10260 Chicago Cubs 9073 St. Louis Cardinals 8379 Cincinnati Reds 7785 Milwaukee Brewers 7488 Pittsburgh Pirates 6993 West Arizona Diamondbacks 9963 San Francisco Giants 8974 Los Angeles Dodgers 8379 Colorado Rockies 7785 San Diego Padres 6498 Division Series NYY vs. SEA (NYY 3-0) MIN vs. TB (TB 3-2) PHI vs. CHC (CHC 3-2) HOU vs. ARZ (HOU 3-1) Championship Series NYY vs. TB (NYY 4-1) CHC vs. HOU (CHC 4-3) World Series NYY vs. CHC (NYY 4-1) One Game Playoff Chicago Cubs 5 San Francisco Giants 2

Resolved Question: MLB Expansion….(Itll Never Happen, but….)?
Heres what I propose even though it would NEVER happen….Expand the MLB to four divions in each league: AL EAST: Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, Baltimore Orioles, Toronto Blue Jays AL SOUTH: Florida Marlins, Atlanta Braves, Tampa Bay Rays, (Domincan Republic) Santo Domingo Himnos AL CENTRAL: , Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds AL WEST: Seattle Mariners, San Francisco Giants, Oakland Athletics, Las Vegas Rollers NL EAST: New York Mets, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates, Washington Nationals NL SOUTH: Texas Rangers, Houston Astros, Colorado Rockies, Kansas City Royals NL CENTRAL: Minnesota Twins, Milwaukee Bucks, Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals NL WEST: Los Angeles Angels, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Diego Padres, Arizona Diamondbacks I figured before Canada or Mexico got a new team, Dominican Republic should get a team cause it is VERY VERY popular there, and one of the most popular sports in that country. Vegas just seems to make the most sense IN the United States cause New Orleans doesnt have a large baseball fan base from what ive read and heard. But that would be the 2nd choice for inside the United States. THEN the playoffs would be the top two teams from every division seperated by the AL and NL. I know, itll NEVER happen, but whats your input?? In the D.R. you’d be surprised how many people would show up because of how huge it is in that country.