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Goat Pupil
posted on 09-15-2001 @ 2:21 PM      
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With the games being postponed this week, the 2002 superbowl will most likely be played in February. I personally don't feel the game would be affected. With our nation's tragedy, i think the NFL did the right thing by postponeing this weeks games.



suicidalsteve
posted on 09-15-2001 @ 2:56 PM      
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Registered: Jan. 01
date of the game wont change at all. they're either gonna just have a 15 game season or eliminate the first round of the playoffs but they're not gonna touch the superbowl.

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PoseUr i ahve 2 threads at teh top, i feel like maynard		posted on 09-15-2001 @ 3:02 PM      
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I would prefer they schedule the Super Bowl the first week of February but since it seems they wouldnt do that, a 15 game schedule would be a MUCH better idea than eliminating the 1st round of the playoffs. Losing one game in a season isnt that big a deal while kicking out 4 playoff teams based on 1 missed week seems overly drastic.

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um ok, i dont see a problem with moving the SuperBowl to February, it wouldnt be a fuckin travesty if they do ya know. Theres more important things than football ya know. Case in point, this week.



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Goat Pupil
posted on 09-15-2001 @ 10:53 PM      
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Now i know that Football isn't important now. But sometimes you just need something to take your mind away...I think it is possible to have a 16 game season without taking away the first round of the playoffs and without moving the superbowl to February. They should get rid of that sunday off the week before the super bowl. You should have the conference championships and then the super bowl one week later.
WhackBagKid
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HE WHO IS #1.		posted on 09-15-2001 @ 11:01 PM      
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they cant move the super bowl back a week, i heard it on ESPN, its because the CITY its in is booked every week,, convention centers the NFL reserved for FanFest and stuff like that , and hotels are booked because its such a busy city, so its impossible to move it back

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PoseUr i ahve 2 threads at teh top, i feel like maynard		posted on 09-16-2001 @ 12:09 AM      
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quote:
They should get rid of that sunday off the week before the super bowl. You should have the conference championships and then the super bowl one week later.


I'm almost positive that there is no sunday off currently. The AFC and NFC Championship games are gonna be played on the 21st, and the Super Bowl on the 28th. So it can't be done.

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i think the NFL should move back the Super Bowl to Feb., 1 game means alot in the NFL, and who would eliminate a whole playoff round?

Francine Banger
posted on 09-16-2001 @ 2:34 AM      
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There is no week off between the Superbowl and Championship Games, and thats just the NFL's luck because a Vast Majority of the time, there is a week off, and if that was the case here, than there would be absolutely no problem in scheduling.

The NFL Is not going to move the Superbowl back to February. I wish they would, but they are not going to. They have reservations and commitments book for the last weekend in January. I dont know why they just cant honor those reservations and bookings for the First week of February, but who knows.

There are really only 2 options being considered by the NFL, and both aren't very good.

1- To play 15 games, and eliminate this Week 2. I wouldn't mind this one that much because it would take away a Jets game at Oakland. But it wouldnt be balanced as teams would either play 8 Home, 7 Away, or 7 Home, and 8 Away. Also some teams would play 8 Divisional Games, while others would play 7

2- Eliminate the Wildcard Week and make these games up then as the Last Week of the Regular Season. I am Strongly Opposed to that. It ruins the season having only 8 teams make the playoffs. Its tough enough to make the NFL playoffs as it is, reducing the field by 33% doesn't help.

Unfortunately, Plan #2 is the plan the NFL is most likely going to go with.

My suggestion is to take a Wednesday during the season, some time soon, and play the Week 2 games that were supposed to be played. And then play the following games on Sunday. Take the previous weeks games and move them to Saturday. This way your play

Saturday
Wednesday
Sunday.

its 3 days off between games which is done during the season for Thursday games anyway.

It would be a tough week, but its only 1 week.

There is no perfect solution, but I think my plan is better than the NFL's.

WhackBagKid
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HE WHO IS #1.		posted on 09-16-2001 @ 3:03 AM      
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the reason they cant move the reservations is beacause their are conventions being held there and they cant just move the people that have stuff reserved just because the nfl wants them to

BaLLooN NoT
posted on 09-16-2001 @ 7:56 PM      
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who needs a super bowl??? we will be watching afganistan getting bombed to shit


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darthziggy
Isles fan for life		posted on 09-17-2001 @ 4:34 PM      
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francine, thursday games count towards the following weekends games, so there are for most teams 10 days off after a thursday game, not 3.


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Francine Banger
posted on 09-17-2001 @ 8:27 PM      
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quote:
francine, thursday games count towards the following weekends games, so there are for most teams 10 days off after a thursday game, not 3.


Yeah so. Whats that got to do with anything I said.

I said that teams Play on Thursday during the season and have 3 days off between games from the PREVIOUS WEEK!.

Sunday-Thursday.

darthziggy
Isles fan for life		posted on 09-17-2001 @ 9:43 PM      
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francine, you're right, my mistake, i misunderstood. sorry.


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suicidalsteve
posted on 09-18-2001 @ 2:00 AM      
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Registered: Jan. 01
FB personally i think your way is a hell of a lot
better than the 2 things they're considering. but
there's no way in hell that i think they're gonna
go with the 15 game season one cause like u said
then some teams have 8 homes games while others
have 7 and some teams have 8 division games while
others have 7 etc....i got a feeling only 8 teams
in the nfl will be making the playoffs this year.

TeenWeek
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NEW YORK -- The NFL will play a full 16-game schedule this season, making up last week's missed games in the first week of January.


And while it may still reduce the number of playoff teams from 12 to eight, commissioner Paul Tagliabue said Tuesday that full playoffs are still a possibility.



Tues., Sept. 18
Among the ways the league is exploring how it can salvage a complete playoff schedule is something called the "Shanahan Plan."

Proposed by Broncos head coach Mike Shanahan to the competition committee, this plan calls for the makeup games to take place, as planned, on Jan. 5 and 6 -- but the ones involving teams still alive for a wild-card berth would be played Saturday of that weekend. The wild-card playoffs would then be held the following Wednesday, creating a short week for the winners of the new wild-card weekend.

Shanahan's reasoning is that even though the wild-card teams would be forced to play three times in a span of about eight days, their only other option, if the NFL can't move the Super Bowl back a week, is to not be in the playoffs at all.

The NFL, which is talking to New Orleans about the logistics of moving the Super Bowl back a week, will probably make contact with the organizers of a car convention scheduled for the following week about flip-flopping weeks, with compensation involved.

Another 12-team playoff scenario, according to a league source, is to hold both conference championship games in New Orleans on Jan. 27 of Super Bowl weekend, then have the winners play the Super Bowl at a new site the following week.

But league sources on Tuesday said the most likely scenario will be a 16-game schedule with the elimination of four wild-card teams, making for an eight-team playoff.

The league is trying to appease owners such as the Saints' Tom Benson, the Jaguars' Wayne Weaver, the Chiefs' Lamar Hunt and the Patriots' Bob Kraft by not locking itself into a playoff formula yet that would eliminate four wild-card teams, sources say. Kraft is concerned about TV ratings for the final week of the season, while the others are concerned about having wild-card berths to play for.





Tagliabue said the league's competition committee had voted unanimously to keep the 16-game format, switching the games called off last weekend to the weekend of Jan. 5-7, when wild-card games had been scheduled.


But he said the committee is still looking at ways to keep the normal complement of 12 playoff teams rather than eight. That would mean three division winners and three wild-card teams in each conference would make the playoffs rather than the three winners and just one wild card.


"This would be the best of both worlds. If they can keep the 16-game schedule and the six wild cards, then everybody's happy. It's just back to business," said coach Mike Sherman of Green Bay, one of many teams whose playoff chances would be hurt badly if the NFL cut back on wild cards.


"I'll be curious to see what follows after this," added Andy Reid of Philadelphia, another team that might be affected. "I'd hate to disrupt the playoffs in that situation. ... I'm sure they'll come up with an answer for it. They understand the importance of the playoffs."


When the teams return, they could have the regular officials back.


The league and the NFL Referees Association continued negotiations Tuesday.


As for the playoffs, Tagliabue said:


"We continue to work on keeping six division winners, six wild cards and our entire postseason format intact. Several options have been presented to us in recent days that would help us accomplish that. If we cannot resolve our entire postseason lineup in a satisfactory fashion, we then will go to a system of six division winners and two wild-card teams for this one season only."


One option would be to move the Super Bowl, to be played in New Orleans, from Jan. 27 to Feb. 3. There is only a one-week break this year after the championship games.


One way to do that would be to switch the Super Bowl and the National Auto Dealers Convention, scheduled for the next week. The Pro Bowl, scheduled for Feb. 4, would either be moved back a week or played as scheduled without players from Super Bowl teams.


Another option would be to schedule most of the potential playoff teams for Saturday, Jan. 5, then play the wild-card games on Wednesday Jan. 9. The next round would be played Jan. 13-14 with the championship games as scheduled on Jan. 20 -- most likely with four exhausted teams.


A third would be to play the title games on Super Bowl Sunday, Jan. 27, as a doubleheader at the Superdome. The Super Bowl would be played the next week at another site with New Orleans promised another game in the future.


The 16-game season appeared to be a certainty soon after Tagliabue announced last Thursday that last week's games were off because of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.


One reason is financial. If the league had played 15 games, 15 teams would have played seven home games instead of eight, missing out on one lucrative gate. And the league would owe the networks $40 million to $60 million for the wild-card games that would not be played if the alternate scenarios don't work out.


Another was practical. San Diego was scheduled off last week. So the Chargers would have ended the season having played 16 games while the others would have played 15.


And a third seemed to be that most players and coaches wanted a full schedule.


But the players and coaches also wanted a full playoff schedule. If options can't be worked out, however, they won't get that.


"Fewer playoff teams is basically going to take the playoffs out of a lot of teams' reach," said Wayne Gandy of Pittsburgh, which must play in the AFC Central with Baltimore, Tennessee and Jacksonville.


"By December, maybe even November, guys are going to get down on themselves because they're going to realize only four teams are going to make the playoffs and, in the AFC, there are a lot of good teams. It's going to be a challenge for everybody."






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