Quote:Look, I've already stated that it would be fine with me if they left well enough alone. But you and I don't get a vote. Unless you plan to vote by not watching and going to NFL games anymore.

 

Sorry - but that's not a price I chose to pay. And I seriously doubt you, or anyone else around here, will either.

 

You (and TMD and others) who pine for the days of yore remind me of the hard-core traditionalists who said that major league baseball was going to hell in a hand basket (where did that phrase come from?) and they'd never watch again, etc., etc. Well, MLB is doing just fine. When (not if) the NFL expands the playoffs - which I'd much rather have than the useless four exhibition (I'm sorry, pre-season) games - the NFL will do just fine.

 

  While we don't get a vote and very likely won't change the outcome of the decision,   I still believe that it's worth expressing my opinion on a subject that's very important to me as an NFL fan.    There are many NFL decisions that I'm relatively neutral on.   This isn't one of them.   

 

  I would take a 4 game exhibition season 100 out of 100 times if it means that the regular season maintains it's importance level.   We have difference preferences,  which of course is fine.

 

 As for MLB,   the way they added two playoff teams a couple of years ago was actually a good decision.  It made the regular season more important from the standpoint that the division winners don't have to participate in a one game playoff.   Under the playoff structure prior to the current one when each league had one wild card,  there was almost no difference in being a division winner compared to being a wild card.     My only major issue with the current structure of the MLB season is the 2nd Round of the playoffs are best 3 out of 5 instead of best 4 out of 7.   It's too easy for an inferior team to win a short series.   

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