Posted on 01/03/2010 8:30:20 PM PST by FromLori
The NFL flaps its gums to appease Colts fans forced to watch their team tank last week's game against the Jets, blowing their perfect season.
MIAMI (AP) -- Commissioner Roger Goodell says the NFL competition committee will review league policy regarding late-season games where teams might be tempted to rest their starters for the playoffs.
Goodell said the league was sensitive to criticism in the wake of the Indianapolis Colts' decision to use backups a week ago in a game they lost, ending their bid for a perfect season.
''It is something we'll look at,'' Goodell said Sunday. ''We heard the fans loud and clear. It's something our competition committee has looked at in the past, but we're going to ask our competition committee to look at it again in the future. We want every game to be competitive.''
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And he/she would need to be a Communist to qualify
And in St. Louis, we were actually hoping the rams would lose so we could get the first draft pick.
And they want to add 2 games to the current 16 game schedule. Idiot$
You’re ideas make a heck of a lot of sense!!! Forward them to Goodell.
Exactly!!!
This is the craziest sports controversy I’ve heard of. The Colts earned the bye, and they’re playing smart. I wonder how many Colts fans would be happy if they couldn’t win the divisional because somebody got clobbered in a meaningless game and couldn’t play.
The Bengals didn't even show up against the Jets tonight.
My suggestion: give every team a home game and a road game for the last two weeks of the season, but don't set the schedule for the last two weeks. Then schedule games between contenders (e.g Steelers, Dolphins, Broncos, Texans, Jets, Ravens all scheduled against one another). That way winning is in the hands of the competing teams.
Personally I am just Happy the Steelers (Team Obama) didn't make the playoffs.
Later, in an interview with CBS, Goodell said various incentives to prevent teams from benching starters will be considered.
Such incentives could include awarding draft choices.
Now Goodell is gonna give teams draft picks to play starters?
The guy is a joke!
*Here’s the no-brainer solution: Switch back to a 14-game season.*
Uh, yeah, well, the Colts would have tanked game 12 then.
This is all idiotic anyway. If the Commish is worried about money & viewers, how about getting rid of blackout rules and the distribution maps. Allow me to watch whatever game I want wherever I live. For instance, today I had to suffer through Brett F*cking Favre—AGAIN, when I would have rather watched Paint Dry VS. Grass Grow.
*Then schedule games between contenders (e.g Steelers, Dolphins, Broncos, Texans, Jets, Ravens all scheduled against one another). That way winning is in the hands of the competing teams.*
How do you know who will be “contenders” before the season starts? This ain’t the AL East.
Maybe they should take a page out of the NHL. Make it so that all but 4 teams DON'T get in the playoffs.
What a joke. They had a chance to be undefeated but mailed it in.
The worst team I've seen in the New York Giants... nobody showed up for the last two weekends. Just weird.
* Now Goodell is gonna give teams draft picks to play starters?
The guy is a joke! *
Sounds like a Democrat, too.
The winners earned the right to do what they wish best for their teams. Why should the NFL act like the Federal Govt. and punish incentive or the rights of teams to make their own decisions. If the Indy Colts fans have a beef with their team is one thing but having NFL intrude on team decisions is over reaching.
Those teams facing the Colts would have been more competitive though.
You assume the Colts would have still maintained a perfect season prior to the Jets game fiasco
In a 14 game season the league would become drastically more competitive. In addition to the extra wild card berths the bottom-feeders would be playing for something too.
Nope, because the Saints @ 13 and 2 weren’t playing for an undefeated season.
The Colts have been ousted out of the playoffs each time they rested their starters at the end.
In their Super Bowl season they played all their starters through the end.
Resting your starters is a horrible idea and gives a false sense of security.
What could make it more exciting for the fans when this happens is for the "present" team to run up the score on the "absent" team as much as possible. The fans attending the games know they won't see real competition, but if they're lucky they might see a record-breaking blowout debacle. The fans get to say "I was there when the Skankers lost by 68 points!", and the team that rested their starters gets a well-deserved humiliation.
It's ridiculous. The NFL season is already too long. It basically starts with the training camps in July and then preaseason games in August. The Super Bowl is in February now. They did a good thing with having the Pro Bowl the week before the Super Bowl though. But even with the Pro Bowl, they should just announce the teams and cancel the game itself or have a 30-min touch football game.
A few decades ago, the controversy was over bad teams throwing their last few games to make their season even worse.
The reason: So they could be better positioning in the player draft.
Controversy is a part of the system — gotta give all those ‘journalists’ something to write about.
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