Being that this is the worst weekend of the year because there is absolutely no competitive football: I was wondering if anyone felt the NFL should establish a Super Bowl Consolation Game (Give it another appealing name) the week before the Super Bowl which pits the AFC and NFC runners-up. In that case, this season would be Baltimore and Detroit. Let's say players on the winning team get $80K and the losing team gets $40K each. That is half of what the winners and losers will make in the SB. Also, it would always be a competitive, exciting game compared to the watered-down, lame (If you make me look good on this play; I will make you look good on the next play.) Pro Bowl.
Suggestion: A Super Bowl Consolation Game
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Two worst teams. Winner gets the first pick in the draft.
Could be wrong but I think they had this type of loser’s bowl years ago.
Two teams eliminated in the conference championship games, winner gets the first pick in the draft.Two worst teams. Winner gets the first pick in the draft.
For sure. Why risk injury and play a game which means absolutely nothing?? That's why the Pro Bowl is no longer what it used to be. It's also why I think non-playoff college bowl games will slowly disappear.
But, for a professional, doesn't every game risk their career? The OP's proposal gives this game more monetary incentive than any regular season game.
And they would be in violation of their contract for which they can fined and suspended.
That would be a PR nightmare for a business that cares deeply about PR.
They already have, part of the standard contract mandated by the CBA.
Maybe, maybe just the opposite.
So they have in the nfl contract to play a runner up game. That is what you are saying?
Let's give it a modern name to celebrate inclusion. Call it the Participation Bowl!
Originally called the Runner-Up Bowl. Boy, those were some deep thinking PR guys the NFL had working for them back in the days before Rozelle.
Lombardi, iirc, had some choice words to describe that game.
This does sound like the Lombardi of “Instant Replay.”
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I like it. Could call it the "Tanker Bowl." Sure as hell beats something like the NBA Draft Lottery.Two worst teams. Winner gets the first pick in the draft.
Well then players union would never go for it. Playing for 9th place trophy is not their mindset. Cant think of one all pro etc that would do it. To much risk for injury for no championship.
The regular season is limited to 17 games (not more than 20 including pre-season). The post-season will be a four-tiered (“wild card” game, division playoff game, conference
championship and Super Bowl game) play-off system throughout the term of the Agreement.
I don't think the league could add a post season game without changing the CBA with the players' consent.
ARTICLE 31
ADDITIONAL REGULAR SEASON GAMES
(a) The League and/or Clubs shall have the discretion to increase the number
of regular season games per Club from sixteen (16) to seventeen (17) (but not more),
provided that the combined total of preseason and regular season games played per Club
shall not exceed twenty (20) games. The League and/or Clubs shall not increase the num-
ber of regular season games per Club to eighteen (18) or more games.
ARTICLE 37
POSTSEASON PAY
Section 1. System: A four-tiered (“wild card” game, division playoff game, conference
championship and Super Bowl game) play-off system will be used and continued through-
out the term of this Agreement. Any player on a Club that has earned a first-round bye
will be paid an amount equal to the amount received by players on a non-Division Winner
participating in a “wild card” game for that Club’s bye week, provided such player is on
the Club’s 53-player Active/Inactive List or the Club’s Reserve/Injured List as of the Sun-
day immediately preceding such Club’s Division Play-off game.
My comment was not relative to whether the NFL could add a game unilaterally, but whether players could opt out.
What everyone has overlooked is the sheer genius of BobPSU92's suggestion (Post #3).
Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi detested the Playoff Bowl, coaching in the games following the 1963 and 1964 seasons, after winning NFL titles in 1961 and 1962. To his players, he called it "the 'S*#t Bowl', ...a losers' bowl for losers." This lack of motivation may explain his Packers' rare postseason defeat in the 1964 game (January 1965) to the St. Louis Cardinals. After that loss, he fumed about "a hinky-dink football game, held in a hinky-dink town, played by hinky-dink players. That's all second place is – hinky dink."
Maybe in the summer, we could have a college all-star team play the previous Super Bowl champs.
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