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Originally Posted by wazu
I doubt one more game kills division rivalries. I do get your point about it watering down some, but winning the division is still the clearest/best path to the playoffs. If a team somehow gets swept by division opponents yet still wins the division that would almost be cool to see. Seems highly unlikely, though. Don't remember ever hearing of a team getting anywhere close to doing that.
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To me it's not so much the one more game. It's the one more step in a process. Back in the Olden Tymes most divisions had 5 teams. You had 8 division games, home and away. That was half of a 16 game season. That was a
really big deal. I know that my NFL experience is just a slice in the history of an institution but I don't like where it's going.