N/S Divisions that would make sense for fan travel… (1 Viewer)

[Krodwhodat]

 

[solarbear88]

Would make sense to me.

 

[Saint KayBee]

I’d dislike losing the Falcons as a division rival, and the Titans never bothered me so I’d have to invent reasons to hate them

 

[saintmike23]

Yeah gotta keep the Dirty Birds as division rivals. Plus flights to Atlanta are more plentiful than flights to Nashville. Cowboys as division rivals would be fun also. Texans are a bit boring as is Houston lol.

 

[Saintscuffy]

I’d dislike losing the Falcons as a division rival, and the Titans never bothered me so I’d have to invent reasons to hate them

wouldnt really have to..Saints-Cowboyswould be the big rivalry in that division.

 

[GW93]

I associate “Big Sky” with Montana. Change that division’s name to “Prairie West.”

Also, having an “Atlantic” division south of the “Mid-Atlantic” division is confusing. Put Atlanta and the Florida teams in the “Waffle House” division (and secure some corporate sponsor $).

And wouldn’t having the Jets and Giants, and Rams and Chargers, in the same division cause logistical issues w/a shared stadium? I seem to remember that was a potential problem when both the Chargers and Raiders were eyeing L.A., while the Rams were still in St. Louis.

 

[St. Geezy]

I really miss the quirkiness of the old alignment. I am honestly not a believer that the divisions needed to be geography based.

It was fun having divisional rivals from California, especially against the Niners.

Look at the NFC East. It makes no sense but it makes for fun rivalries with the East Coast teams rivaling the Texas boys.

It just was more fun the old way, IMO.

There’s also some mathematical stuff it did with the standings as it relates to watering down the division winners and negatively impacting wild card participants that I don’t like, but that’s a topic for another thread.

 

[ShadowMan]

Aren't you suppose to have all AFC and all NFC teams in one division?

 

[weunice]

IMHO they should rip off the band aid and do this. It would build MUCH better rivalries. The problem is, owners like to move teams and it screws this all up again. It is the ONE reason college football is fun. Universities (rarely) move and rivalries stand the test of time.

Otherwise, give me the NFL 8 days a week.

 

[GW93]

It was fun having divisional rivals from California, especially against the Niners.

You call San Fran standing in the way of winning the NFC West year after year in the ‘80s fun?

 

[St. Geezy]

You call San Fran standing in the way of winning the NFC West year after year in the ‘80s fun?

I do actually lol.

They were the king of the mountain we had to overcome, the big baddies from California, and we were the little guys from Louisiana trying to knock them down.

It sure would have been fun being the little Louisiana guys finally beating them down when SP and Drew were here.

 

[Saint Jack]

IMHO they should rip off the band aid and do this. It would build MUCH better rivalries. The problem is, owners like to move teams and it screws this all up again. It is the ONE reason college football is fun. Universities (rarely) move and rivalries stand the test of time.

Otherwise, give me the NFL 8 days a week.

Conference realignment says otherwise.

 

[SystemShock]

How does that make sense for fan travel? Maybe the driving fan?
Divisions consist of 4 teams, and playing road games against your division opponents count for only 3 games.

Houston may be closer than Atlanta as the crow flies, but takes you what, and extra hour to drive from N.O. to Atlanta (~6hrs) than Houston (~5 hrs). Dallas vis a vis Tampa, do people drive 9 hours to Tampa to the game? To Charlotte?

And that Pacific division, isn't it forcing a grouping that includes Seattle just to be called "Pacific division"? By the groupings' logic, you'd group Rams - Chargers - Cardinals - Raiders should be grouped together.

Also, how many fans travel from N.O. to road games? It's not like all fans of a given team live in the city or even State the team plays. At times, AT&T stadium sounded like the Dome, but was that a function of people from N.O. going to Dallas, or transplants from Louisiana that now live in Dallas?

And a team is losing games, how well do its fans travel?

 

[Moon]

Aren't you suppose to have all AFC and all NFC teams in one division?

I would go:

NFC:
Pacific
Great Lakes West
South
Northeast

AFC:
Big Sky
Great Lakes East
Mid-Atlantic
Atlantic

 

[Saint Greg]

I like Saints, Falcons, Cowboys, Texans.