The_Philster
12-08-2002, 05:26 PM
Take your eyes off Michael Vick for a minute. Ignore those power rankings stacked with NFC powers at the top. You're missing all the real action.
It's over here in the Pete Rozelle parity-dise known as the American Football Conference.
It's somewhat fashionable to trash the AFC right now. It seems that every team except Cincinnati's Ben Gals are flirting with .500. You can't pick out a dominant team or a Super Bowl favorite. Thirteen of the AFC's 16 teams have a 6-6 record or better. No one, it seems -- not even the salary-cap-ravaged, Ray Lewis-less Baltimore Ravens -- is out of the AFC playoff hunt.
This lack of dominance has caused some alleged experts to conclude that the football in the AFC is a mediocre byproduct of the salary cap and Rozelle's twisted desire to create league-wide parity.
Surely something is wrong when 32-year-old Ben Gal castoff Jeff Blake is quarterbacking a team with December playoff hopes.........
more (http://espn.go.com/page2/s/whitlock/021206.html)
It's over here in the Pete Rozelle parity-dise known as the American Football Conference.
It's somewhat fashionable to trash the AFC right now. It seems that every team except Cincinnati's Ben Gals are flirting with .500. You can't pick out a dominant team or a Super Bowl favorite. Thirteen of the AFC's 16 teams have a 6-6 record or better. No one, it seems -- not even the salary-cap-ravaged, Ray Lewis-less Baltimore Ravens -- is out of the AFC playoff hunt.
This lack of dominance has caused some alleged experts to conclude that the football in the AFC is a mediocre byproduct of the salary cap and Rozelle's twisted desire to create league-wide parity.
Surely something is wrong when 32-year-old Ben Gal castoff Jeff Blake is quarterbacking a team with December playoff hopes.........
more (http://espn.go.com/page2/s/whitlock/021206.html)