10/12/2009

It's the Owners, Stupid

The NFL has been carefully crafted over the last two decades so to insure "balance" between teams. When you look at the train wreck that is the title race this year you can see that there are, at best, four really good teams by a mile and a bunch of slugs and total slugs. The ownership has abandoned winning, for some reason. How else to explain the decades long record of ineptitude of the Lions, Chiefs, Browns, Rams (plane bombing since Mr. Rosenbloom died),Raiders etc. other than the ownership. This bodes ill for the entire league if the bad teams cannot be forced to try. The fan base will not continue to sit on their couches for TV fare like the Browns vs Buffalo (3 to 3 til late) and Giants vs Raiders (44-7) as was the case yesterday forever. Could be the beginning of the end.

2 comments:

Big Bad Wolf said...

Well now, don't forget that there's hope for the Rams yet. Limbaugh will be buying them any day now...

I'm actually under the impression that the whole 'market sharing' thing that the NFL does was to promote teams in smaller markets and with possibly smaller revenue pools and give them a chance to compete against the big boys. That said, yeah...there's more than a few stinkers out there.

CJ said...

Agree with you about the long-term bad teams, but there's more than four good teams. NE, IND, BAL, SD, ARI, NO -- those are decent teams. And teams like DAL, CHI, and DEN are at least trying to build winners. You're right that balance and "any given Sunday" are gone. They might as well split into Division 1 and Division 2. They could do like English soccer used to do, having the top two second division teams move into the first division every year and the bottom two Div 1 teams get "relegated" to the second tier.