Unabated Sports

As the 2005 regular season came to a close, some NFL executives began throwing around the idea of a larger playoff format that would allow two extra teams from each conference into the post-season. I'll be honest, I'm mostly against that idea. In other sports, the playoffs seem watered down when half the league moves on, even if they barely have a winning record. It really devalues the regular season, where most NFL games still have so much riding on them. But there's one argument that really appeals to me:


Yeah, starting around noon on Saturday until pretty much midnight and the same thing the next day. Three games each day. As much as I feel that this format would diminish the regular season and give too much of an advantage to the #1 seeds in each conference, I certainly couldn't argue with two straight days of twelve straight hours of football.