Remember how I revealed my plan to fix the MLB playoffs? Well, tonight I'm going to tell you how to fix the NFL.
To be fair, the NFL doesn't need much help. Of all professional sports, it offers the most excitement and best playoff system. As a result, it receives the highest television ratings.
But as I mentioned in yesterday's post, there is one slight problem with the NFL: the two-week layoff between the Conference Championships and the Super Bowl. This week without football isn't going to go away anytime soon, so what should we do with it?
Easy. Have the Pro Bowl played on the Sunday between the Conference Championships and the Super Bowl.
No one purposely watches the Pro Bowl. You might be home, flipping through the channels, notice that it's on, and watch a quarter or two. But no one circles that date on his calendar and wakes up that morning thinking, "YES! It's Pro Bowl Day!"
By the time the Pro Bowl rolls around, The Super Bowl has already been played. We have little interest in football at this point. So wouldn't it make more sense to move it to that vacant weekend when we are all still interested in football? You would get more viewers if the Pro Bowl were played on this date and -- this is the important part -- more advertising revenue.
The only people that would get screwed with this plan are the Super Bowl players that were selected to play in the Pro Bowl. A week in Tampa is not comparable to a weekend in Hawaii, so just use give ALL the Super Bowl players an all-expenses paid, three-day vacation in Hawaii on the weekend after the Super Bowl.
Everyone wins!
Song of the day: Bela Lugosi's Dead by Bauhaus
One Of These Days, Everyone Will Listen To Me
