NFL schedule readjustment

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Originally posted by Bloody Anus
<a href=\"http://www.atlantafalcons.com/team/790/\" target=blank>Get used to it.</a>

That's gay .. fuck rivalries. You can't realign and expect to keep all your rivalries intact.

Exactly! It's just more proof positive that old, white NFL refuses to emerge out of the Dark Ages and wants to live in the past. God, just look how long it took them to actually realign the league. Yup, Arizona in the East always made sense.

Anyway, I just wanted to reprint this one line from BA's article.

A team’s record from the previous year will have less of a bearing on its schedule with only two (rather than four) opponents being based on the previous year’s standing. Thus, the so-called “easy” fifth-place schedules are eliminated.

So glad they actually care about competition in the NFL.
Now, as for the "easy" fifth-place schedules comment. Umm, first off there are no fifth place teams anymore and even so if the last place teams all played each other, I wouldn't call that easy. It's not like a 1st place vs a 4th place. They both sucked the previous year so it's a pretty even matchup, just like if two 2nd place teams went at it.