Quote:I guess for the point I'm trying to make, let's look at it this way. Say we play New England in the AFC Championship game and they beat us in a close competitive game. Then, they go on and lose in the Super Bowl, and then over 4 months after the Super Bowl it is determined that they paid off the refs in the game against us and only won because they cheated and the NFL decides to void their win and declare us AFC champions. Would you be celebrating? Would you be bragging to everyone that we won the AFC championship? I sure hope not. It would be a paper championship. I mean it's not like we actually won on the field. It's not like we got to go on and play in the Super Bowl and try to win the big game. It's not like in our memories we look back and talk of how awesome of a win it is.

 

In the end, it is a bad situation for everyone.

 

We get your point -- you can't actually erase the events from the past.  

 

As a result, one must impose some type of penalty to reflect the team is not the US Champ.  As such, they take away the trophy and remove them from the record books.   That's pretty much all you can do given the fact that you can't legally execute the head coach or wind the clock back and try to recreate history.

 

You want cheating ?   Head over to HS Football.  The recruiting is terrible !!

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