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...league is more famous for its delusional geography than the NFL. Dating back to the expansion of the 70's, the disoriented alignment of New Orleans and Atlanta in the NFC West and Dallas and Arizona in the NFC East has since been deeply ingrained in the minds of its fans...
...June at the latest, the NFL will announce a realignment plan with a keener eye towards location in order to accommodate the Houston Texans in 2002. Those fictitious eight-year olds who use the NFL standings as their trusty atlas will finally have a fighting a chance in our nation's schools--unless they're from Dallas...
DIED. LOWELL PERRY, 68, star football player at the University of Michigan; first post-World War II black assistant NFL coach and chairman of the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission in the Ford Administration; of cancer; in Southfield, Mich. He was also the NFL's first black broadcaster and one of the first blacks to head a major auto plant--for Chrysler...
...lastly, even if salary caps did ensure parity, and even if they did so in the proper way, I still would not support them. Why? Because parity is overrated. Say what you want about competitive balance in the NFL, I think it just makes things boring. There's a reason why last year's Super Bowl between St. Louis and Tennessee received such low ratings. And this year's title game will surely be no better. The Ravens and the Giants? For those outside Baltimore and New York, it doesn't get much more boring than that...
...professional sports leagues could do a lot worse than if they returned to the days when you could expect great things from certain teams each year. Having suffered through this past weekend's NFL conference championship games, I can say with great confidence that, for my money, I'd much rather pay to see the likes of the old Niners-Cowboys rivalry than the crap that FOX threw at us last Sunday...