From: ashley@oasis.gtefsd.com (Bob Ashley)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.pro
Subject: 93 NFC-AFC Sites (1st-4th pl teams) ... LONG
Date: 29 Dec 92 20:28:55 GMT
Reply-To: ashley@oasis.gtefsd.com
Organization: GTE Federal Systems Division


The sites of the interconference games will be the opposite that of the 1990 season,
when division positioning determined the sites.  This is an effort by the NFL to
avoid having an AFC team travelling to the same NFC site every third year.  I mean,
if you were Don Shula, wouldn't you cringe at the possibility of going to RFK every
third year?  Wouldn't you want to have the Redskins at your own park?  Well, this
is what they have done ...

This can be traced back to 1978, at the inception of the 16-game schedule, when
East played East and Central play West.  In 1981, the sites were reversed based on the
four teams involved three years prior.  If one of those teams finished 5th, then the
team that had finished 5th in the prior year gets those sites of that other team.

In 1984, placements were a factor, while in 1987, sites were reversed from 1984.  So,
in 1990, placement was a factor, so in 1993, sites are reversed.  I will use the
East/East as an example:

   1990	N/East	A/East

	NYG	Buf		Buf and Mia traveled to NYG and Was, while
	Phi	Ind		   hosting Phi and Phx
	Was	Mia		Ind and NEn hosted NYG and Phi while they
	Phx	NEn		   had to travel to Phi and Phx
	Dal	NYJ		Dal and NYJ had fifth place schedules


   1993	N/East	A/East		Dal assumes Phx sites and NYJ assumes NEn sites

	Dal	Mia		Mia and Buf will HOST Was and NYG, while they
	Phi	Buf		   will travel to Dal and Phi
	Was	Ind		Ind and NYJ will TRAVEL to Was and NYG, while
	NYG	NYJ		   hosting Dal and Phi
	Phx	NEn		Phx and NEn have fifth place schedules

This can be applied to ALL interconference matchups for the NEXT THREE YEARS!!

In article 8767@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU,  gidi@Hilbert.Stanford.EDU (Gidi Avrahami) writes:
>
>The NFL has posted next year's basic schedules, i.e., the lists
>of home/away opponents, but of course no dates yet.
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Miami           Buffalo         Indianapolis    NY Jets
>    Dal             NYG             Dal            @Dal       
>    Wash            Phil            Wash            NYG
>   @NYG            @Dal            @NYG             Phil
>   @Phil           @Wash           @Phil           @Wash
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Pittsburgh      Houston         Cleveland       Cincinnati    
>   @NO             @Atl             Atl            @Atl       
>    Atl             NO              SF              NO        
>    SF              Rams           @NO              Rams      
>   @Rams           @SF             @Rams           @SF        
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>San Diego       Kansas City     Denver          LA Raiders
>   @Chi             Chi            @Chi            @Minn
>   @GB              GB              Minn            Chi           
>    Minn           @Minn            TB              GB
>    TB             @TB             @GB             @TB
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Dallas          Philadelphia    Washington      NY Giants
>    Buf            @Buf            @Ind            @Buf
>    NYJ            @NYJ            @Mia             Ind           
>   @Ind             Ind             Buf             Mia
>   @Mia             Mia             NYJ            @NYJ
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Minnesota       Green Bay       Tampa Bay       Chicago 
>   @Den             Den            @Den             Den
>    KC              SD             @SD              SD            
>    Rdrs           @KC              KC             @KC
>   @SD             @Rdrs            Rdrs           @Rdrs
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>San Francisco   New Orleans     Atlanta         LA Rams       
>   @Clev           @Cin             Cin            @Cin       
>   @Pitt           @Hou             Hou            @Hou       
>    Cin             Clev           @Clev            Clev      
>    Hou             Pitt           @Pitt            Pitt      
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------

I'll leave to the Net to determine the locations for your favorite teams.

Oh, and there is a twist as far as intra-conference (inter-division) games
go as far as locations ... I'll dwell on that in a future post.


Bob - it is not a pretty picture  =-0

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