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NFL Dome teams -- Prescription for Mediocrity - or worse.
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Jan 4 18:27 UTC 1998 |
Well, it's the second week of the NFL playoffs and as usual the dome teams
are gone! In the history of the NFL, no dome team has ever made it to the
super bowl. Just by random chance, about one of every three or four super
bowl teams should be a dome team but it hasn't happened yet.
The odds of this being just a coincidence are astronomical. I propose it's
either one of two causes: either:
1. Something about playing in a dome causes teams to be soft and lose
at crunch time.
2. Playing in a dome and fielding lousy teams are both syptoms of bone-
headed management - hence they occur simultaneously.
Just to make it even more astonishing, consider that dome teams have very
rarely made it to the conference championship game. I think the Houston
Oilers, perhaps the Indianpois Colts, and maybe the Minnesota Vikings are
the only examples. And to my recollection, never has a conference
championship been played in a dome - meaning that the dome team, in the
unlikely event it gets to the conference championship game, has never
had home field advantage.
In light of all this it boggles my mind that the Detroit Lions are
considering building a new dome.
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albaugh
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Jan 5 16:29 UTC 1998 |
A few years ago Detroit went 12-4, and had a 1st round playoff bye, then
stomped Dallas at the Silverdome. Then they had to go to Washington, D.C.
for the NFC championship game, and got stomped by the Redskins, keeping their
record of never having won in Washington intact. I can't explain why dome
teams have never been good enough to host their conference championship games,
where ostensibly they would have a great change to win and go to the super
bowl...
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