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- NY Giants82
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Re: 2008 NFL season
I actually love watching the Steelers, at least when they are on defense. On offense, they are very ordinary, but on defense they are great. I love that style of defense.
- Randall Flagg
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Pittsburgh is my team and the Steelers have been performing well all year. Pittsburgh doesn't get the attention other franchises get, but to suggest they're not a A-list team is nuts. We're talking about a team that has had some of the greatest players in the game and were the dominant team during Football's toughest era...Steel Curtain anyone?
Pittsburgh is a team that is consistently in the Playoffs and has an enormous fan base. I'm talking about real fans and not just people who buy a shirt or jersey cause they did good the year before. When I moved to Seattle, I expected to find no Steelers fans in sight. Sure enough there was an entire Northwest Steelers club at my local hooters who had the placed reserved every Sunday. How many other franchises have a fan base like that?
Pittsburgh has proven once again that defense is what gets you to championships and have the best defense in the league bar none. I won't go out on a limb and claim their victory of Arizona is absolute, but to suggest Pittsburgh won't pull in the audience a team like Dallas would is wack. Anyway, the Steelers are going all the way bitches and will be the first team to get 6 rings. The great part is they're not losing anyone next year and will be a great contender again. I see another dynasty being born in Pittsburgh just like the late 70s and early 80s era.
- Randall Flagg
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Re: 2008 NFL season
Bono wrote:James did you seriously pick them at the start of the year?
Yep. Predicted an Arizona/Cleveland SB. Arizona/Baltimore is awfully close.
I've decided to just embrace this parity era. The magic is gone anyways, so I'll just wallow in the league's mediocrity.
Hate the Cardinals? Don't worry! Next year the Vikings will go. Hate them too? Don't fret, because the Rams will go all the way the following season. Even if you're a Detroit fan, you're guaranteed a SB run at some point in the coming decade.
I'd say you were a lil off there James. The cardinals squeaked in and the Browns were the worst team in the AFC North and one of the worst in the league. I never follow this part of the forum, but if I did I'll honestly admit I would have picked the Giants to win it again. As much as I love Pittsburgh (born and raised bitches) I didn't think they'd make it after last year's showing in the Playoffs, but my boys have done me proud.
Re: 2008 NFL season
I'm rooting for the Cardinals too since I can't stand the Steelers.
However, this thread does make an interesting point regarding parity. Would you rather have a league where essentially regular season accomplishments mean nothing (NFL)? Or would you prefer a sport where the regular season holds some meaning (NBA)?
As much as I like some aspects of parity--quicker rebuild time for a franchise, genuine hope for say 75% of teams to have some kind of playoff aspirations--part of me wonders whether or not some of those Super Bowls would have been better had the higher seeded team won. I can't even remember when the last time there was a one seed vs one seed in the Super Bowl; I think Super Bowl 26 WAS vs BUF might have been the last one. I think the general goal of every team should be to make the playoffs since its pretty much a crapshoot now and the records are wiped clean and everyone is 0-0.
- Communist China
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If you want to see football where only a handful of teams have a chance to win it all from day 1, watch college.
Re: 2008 NFL season
If you want to see football where only a handful of teams have a chance to win it all from day 1, watch college.
You mean watch football where every single team gets to play in a bowl game? No thanks. That's worse than the NFL.
As much as I like some aspects of parity--quicker rebuild time for a franchise, genuine hope for say 75% of teams to have some kind of playoff aspirations--part of me wonders whether or not some of those Super Bowls would have been better had the higher seeded team won. I can't even remember when the last time there was a one seed vs one seed in the Super Bowl; I think Super Bowl 26 WAS vs BUF might have been the last one. I think the general goal of every team should be to make the playoffs since its pretty much a crapshoot now and the records are wiped clean and everyone is 0-0.
Don't remember the exact seeding, but I'm pretty sure quite a few of the Super Bowls in the 80s and early 90's consisted of the top seeds.
Look at the monster teams that dominated the 80's...
San Francisco
New York Giants
Washington Redskins
If you couldn't beat them, you weren't going to be successful. The ONLY NFC team to challenge those teams was the Bears. Destroyed them all in the 85-86 season, and were highly competitive against all three of those teams during the decade. Let's say you're a team like the current Cardinals and you went back in time to the playoffs of that era. Not only do you have to beat Chicago(at Soldier Field, no small feat back then), you had to go beat either NY or Wash at home in order to make it to the NFC title game against San Francisco.
If you somehow managed to accomplish that, you got to play against a high powered offense(Denver, Buffalo, Cincy) in the SB.
That is why mediocre teams didn't stand a chance. Hell, the AFC was pretty damn weak back then, yet mediocre teams such as the Jets, Chiefs, Colts,etc. didn't stand a chance in the playoffs if they got lucky enough to make it.
The 90's saw a minor shift. Chicago entered permanent clusterfuck status, and Jimmy Johnson built up a killer team quickly and it filled that void. SF went on a slight decline, and the NFC East spent most of that decade battling to be SB champions. Every now and then you had an anomaly like the Packers come in and win it all.
Now those anomalies happen every single year.
I prefer the NFL of old to the current state of the league. The talent is spread way too thin now.
- NY Giants82
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Re: 2008 NFL season
I prefer the NFL of old to the current state of the league. The talent is spread way too thin now.
Too many teams in the NFL for one.
