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Originally Posted by Eeyore
Who even wins the super bowl is the best team of the year.
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And see, I don't agree. Everybody knew back in the 90's that the NFC Championship was the real Super Bowl. And recently the same could be said for the AFC. How is that any different from a good college football conference beating up on itself, only to have its number one get pitted against some random lesser team from another conference. Seems like the same thing to me. The randomness in one comes from pollsters, and in the other in comes from the good fortune of being in a weak division or a weak conference.
That's part of football. Bad day doesn't equal bad team. That's why I much prefer a series like every other major sport does. But the game of football doesn't lend itself to that. Also doesn't lend itself well to one game elimination playoffs. The voters pick up the intangibles that football otherwise can't account for.
Find me one person (outside of the NY/NJ area) who doesn't think the 2007 season was a gross disappointment. Maybe New England was the wrong team, but there were three other AFC teams that probably also could have won that game. No way you can tell me the best team in football won that year, unless you're doing it on faith. EVERY system is flawed.