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Message: <blockquote data-quote="toolkien" data-source="post: 473311" data-attributes="member: 4637">1) with 16 teams, parity, and all it taking is winning the turnover margin in the playoffs to win it all, there will be a team to win it all with a losing regular season record within a decade of moving to 16 teams. I will bet $1,000 on that.  2) There is already a breakdown between the regular season and the post season as is, and 16 teams will make that worse.  You might as well structure the NFL season like this - play 2 preseason games, a 16 game season, then week 17 will be "rivalry week" where the same two teams play every year, the home field given to the team with the better record (so the regular season has SOME meaning). The winner moves on to the "sweet sixteen" and so forth. Why not? With 16 teams over 8 4-team divisions, you're, again, bound to have a team with a losing record wind their way through and win it all, so you might was well let everyone in. Is a team that "got hot" at the right time winning it all with a 7-9 record that much worse than a team doing the same with a 4-12 record? Not in my book. If the NFL wants to increase its revenue, it will eventually have to water down the meaning of champion  to a point or no return.</blockquote>

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