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Welcome to Seesaw Sports, where two brothers from New York jaw back and forth about the hottest sports topics today. Todd Salem and Dan Salem take turns 'discussing' (read argue) a topic, with each exchange of words spanning two to three posts.
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Mondays and Fridays the sports seesaw is here. On to topic number one. Enjoy!
TODD:
The NFL is ridiculous. People claim that parity in the sport is
awesome, that nothing is better than a team being able to win ‘Any Given
Sunday.’ I call bullshit. The NFL has become a parody (see what I did
there?). If there's no rhyme or reason
to what happens in the games, then the sport becomes inexplicable. Rather than being excited for upsets to occur,
we are left to wonder if any team truly ever has an advantage other than the
fact that no one believes in them.
Seriously, what's more important to a team winning on Sundays:
Having a star quarterback or having no
one believe they can win?
The reason people love March Madness so much is because the
upsets come in waves, and then by round three or four, we are usually left with
some good teams to watch battle for the title. In years where the Cinderella goes a bit too
far, popularity and ratings drop. No one
wants to see that in the Elite Eight.
The
NFL has become just a continuous round of thirty two where anyone can win any
game and, after a while, even buzzer beaters become monotonous.
DAN:
Love the parity in the NFL and it’s definitely more
important to have "no one believe you can win." Playing the “nobody
believes in us” card won the NY Giants two Superbowls and the Green Bay Packers
one. Both of those teams do have star quarterbacks, but on a weekly basis in
the NFL, playing with your back to wall inspires the entire team and creates
wins even when your quarterback is barely above average. For example, the Ravens.
Definitely love the parity in the league though. Its completely unpredictable! It used to be that by week four, week five at the latest, you knew who all the good teams were and could probably envision the playoff picture. But for at least three seasons now that is completely wrong. And its amazing! We need to keep watching, must watch, in order to even figure out who is good in the league. Plus, any random game can be super awesome and exciting to watch when it comes down to the final two minutes or overtime, which has happened a ton this season by the way.
Now we have to
wait until week ten to see what teams are legit and who may or may not shake out. The top five teams have distanced themselves and the bottom ten are out of
it. I love this aspect! And how can you possibly hate on it?
Its this exact situation that won your team, the Giants, a championship last year. And its this phenomena that has kept me, as a Jets fan, glued to every game week after week for the last three seasons. You don't have to go 11-5 to win in the playoffs, and this season you might only need a 9-7 record to get in or win your division.
Its this exact situation that won your team, the Giants, a championship last year. And its this phenomena that has kept me, as a Jets fan, glued to every game week after week for the last three seasons. You don't have to go 11-5 to win in the playoffs, and this season you might only need a 9-7 record to get in or win your division.
The talent is evenly dispersed more
so than ever before and personally I love seeing a "talented" team
like the Cowboys squander a victory because of poor coaching. Or Andy
Reid. Andy Reid!
Enough said.
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