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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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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...
Whatever the lions do, it never boggles my mind. Itonly confirms what I already know about them.
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