What if NFL Divisions Were Like This? (1 Viewer)

[Hot Sauce Guy]

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Dov Kleiman tweet

Makes so much more sense. I’d love this.

 

[eighsse2]

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Makes so much more sense. I’d love this.

I'd hate it, but only because I'm a Bengals fan. Neat idea though, and most of the divisions make a lot of sense. But I think of Cincinnati as midwest to the core. So being grouped with Carolina, Washington, and Baltimore feels very, very wrong. I know we're already grouped with Baltimore. But that's the weirdest team we're currently grouped with, and suddenly they would become the most fitting which is really bad.

 

[zed2283]

Except that no Big Sky team is in Big Sky country...

 

[RandyDB]

Put Detroit in the Great Lakes West
Put Buffalo in Northeast
Put Philadelphia in Mid Atlantic
then you can slide Cincinnati and Indianapolis into Great Lake East

 

[BLOCKED_PUNT]

I've argued for years now that it makes more sense to have a more regional approach to divisions and it's something that I liked about college football when I used to follow it.

Although my atlantic would be
jacksonville
tampa bay
miami
washington

south
dallas
houston
new orleans
arizona

big sky would be renamed mid west and would be
las vegas
denver
green bay
minn

south east
tn
atlanta
carolina
kc

chi
indy
bengals
detroit


bills
browns
steelers
ravens

 

[FreeBaGeL]

How well aligned were the current divisions before teams started moving around and we got expansion teams, etc?

 

[Snoopy]

To the last question, I will use the 1967 NFL. 16 teams divided into 4 divisions all starting with a "C". Central was all teams currently in the North. Capitol was the East except the Saints were in instead of the Giants. The other 2 divisions were all screwed up to say the least.

 

[-OZ-]

south east
tn
atlanta
carolina
kc

Three of those work. The chiefs seem like a stretch.

Swap Indy in for KC, then KC and Green Bay.

las vegas
denver
KC
minn

south east
tn
atlanta
carolina
Indy

chi
GB
bengals
detroit

 

[jabarony]

Don’t spend too much brainpower on this.5 years from now the Chargers, Jags and oh let’s go with the Cardinals, will probably be in Toronto, London and Mexico City. Or perhaps San Antonio, St. Louis, and Portland.

TBD!