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Listening to NFL radio on the way home yesterday, Pat Kirwan insisted that neutral sites for all future conference championships was coming sooner rather than later. He said it’s pretty much a done deal already, and here’s an article I saw about it this morning:
I personally think it’s a disaster for fans of the teams playing, as the costs will be through the roof to attend, and I can’t imagine a better home game experience than a conference championship. Besides that, the incentives for regular season performance continue to go away. Before, the top two teams got a bye and one got home field advantage. Next, only one team gets a bye plus home field advantage. After this, congratulations you get a bye, which is about the same as playing the 7 seed if you get the the 2.
I hope it doesn’t happen, but knowing the NFL it seems inevitable.
NFL ponders taking conference championship games to neutral sites
For years, Chiefs founder Lamar Hunt pushed for the NFL to move conference championship games to a neutral site.
profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
I personally think it’s a disaster for fans of the teams playing, as the costs will be through the roof to attend, and I can’t imagine a better home game experience than a conference championship. Besides that, the incentives for regular season performance continue to go away. Before, the top two teams got a bye and one got home field advantage. Next, only one team gets a bye plus home field advantage. After this, congratulations you get a bye, which is about the same as playing the 7 seed if you get the the 2.
I hope it doesn’t happen, but knowing the NFL it seems inevitable.