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TroubleMan

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12. So imagine in the NFL the Giants, the Patriots, and Dallas were tired of not making the playoffs, so

Tue Apr 20, 2021, 06:38 PM

Apr 2021

they made they're own playoffs, so they could sell TV deals direct. And those playoffs would run parallel to the NFL playoffs. They were tired of competing with the "smaller" teams that sometimes would win, instead of them, and wanted to guarantee themselves playoff money. That's basically what it was.

The richest teams (not the best teams) wanted to make more money and were tired of the system that promotes winning to get money, rather than guaranteed money. So they were going to make their own playoffs and bypass everybody else. These teams would be guaranteed to be in it, regardless if they had a good or bad season.

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