WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 19, 2001
SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 3B
NFL considers new schedule as playoffs approach
The Associated Press
The NFL will go with a 16-game schedule, making up the games lost last weekend on Jan. 6. But the league is still considering ways to have full 12-team playoffs.
"We believe that a full 16-game regular-season schedule is vital to our fans and the integrity of our season," NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue said. "Each team needs to be guaranteed the same number of home and away games plus an equal number of divisional games. The NFL Competition Committee was unanimous on that point."
Tagliabue said the committee was studying ways to get 12 teams
into the playoffs, even though the second week's games will be played on what would have been wild-card weekend. Jan.
7. Without a week off before the Super Bowl, that would be hard.
"If we cannot resolve our entire postseason lineup in a satisfactory fashion, we then will go to a system of six division winners and two wild-card teams for this one season only." he said.
The league had been considering two options — playing just 15 games and keeping the 12-team
playoff format, or retaining the 16-same schedule.
As for the change in the playoffs, no team seeded lower than fourth has made it to a championship game since Jacksonville upset Buffalo and Denver to reach the AFC title game after the 1996 season. And only one has made it to a Super Bowl - New England after the 1985 season, when there were just two wild-card teams per conference.
But it could have an impact on some of the NFL's strongest teams — particularly in the AFC.
Each AFC division appears to have two strong teams: Miami and Indianapolis in the East; Baltimore and Tennessee in the Central; and Oakland and Denver in the West. Recent history shows there is at least one sleeper every year that turns 180 degrees from a horrible season — San Diego, 1-15 last season, opened with a 30-3 win over Washington.
With only one wild-card team per conference, the division races become far more important. Tennessee's opening-week loss to Miami might be pivotal if the two contend for a wild card spot. The situation also is complicated by Tennessee and Baltimore, two of the top three or four teams in the NFL, playing in the same division.
As teams returned to practice Monday, things still seemed a bit
awry following the terrorist bombings in New York and Washington.
"It was kind of different," Indianapolis quarterback Peyton Manning said. "You know, you always have an off week and you prepare for that, but this was a little different. I don't think anyone wanted to play football this weekend and I'm not sure if people even wanted to come out and watch football, either."
Some players and coaches remained concerned about travel. Carolina coach George Seifert said the Panthers were considering driving to Atlanta for this week's game rather than flying.
The New York Jets considered it but will fly anyway.
"We thought about it, but we want to fly." Jets coach Herman Edwards said.
"Teams will have to be flying around the country anyway, so we might as well get used to it."
Overall, most players seemed glad to be back at work.
But they also seemed to have more perspective on what they do.
"Some things are far greater than playing sports," Cincinnati running back Corey Dillon said. "People just need to come together. Americans don't need the game; Americans need each other."
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