Intro
The National Football League(NFL) is a well established league, and it has been around for almost 100 years. The NFL has great history, but what exactly does the NFL need to do to keep an organized league? Expansion can help leagues and different leagues run different set ups but the NFL seems to know and understand the best league system for the NFL.
League History The NFL was founded in 1922 and it originally had 17 teams (Pro Football & NFL History). Later in 1960, the American Football League(AFL) was founded and it contained eight teams (Pro Football & NFL History). The first ten years of the AFL, the NFL and AFL would have their best two teams play against each other (Pro Football & NFL History). This game was dubbed The Super …show more content…
In order for a team to join, the current owners have to take a vote on adding the team. If the team would pass the vote, they would then have to pay a fee to join the NFL. As I stated earlier, the last team to join, the Texans, had to pay $700 million to join the NFL (HoustonTexans.com). I personally think that the close league system is the best system for the NFL. Even though an open league system would push teams to be more competitive with the fear of relegation, the talent would be too diluted for NFL teams to have the success they have now. Each team has 53 players and they have a practice squad of 10 players. That would mean with the additions of even two teams, these teams would have to find a total of 126 more players to try and compete at the NFL level. The position that would take the biggest hit would have to be quarterbacks. We already see teams, like the Cleveland Browns and Chicago Bears, struggle to find quality starting quarterbacks. The Browns have had 21 different quarterbacks start a game since 2000, and the Bears have had 18 different quarterbacks start a game since 2000. Obviously some of those starting quarterbacks are due to the starting quarterback getting hurt, but this still proves that these two teams have had a major problem finding a quality quarterback. This just proves that even with 32 teams in the NFL, adding anymore teams would decrease the quality of quarterbacks in the NFL as a whole. Even though there is a huge amount of talent that gets passed on from the NCAA to the NFL, positions that need a quality player in order for the team to have success, would
The National Football League(NFL) is a well established league, and it has been around for almost 100 years. The NFL has great history, but what exactly does the NFL need to do to keep an organized league? Expansion can help leagues and different leagues run different set ups but the NFL seems to know and understand the best league system for the NFL.
League History The NFL was founded in 1922 and it originally had 17 teams (Pro Football & NFL History). Later in 1960, the American Football League(AFL) was founded and it contained eight teams (Pro Football & NFL History). The first ten years of the AFL, the NFL and AFL would have their best two teams play against each other (Pro Football & NFL History). This game was dubbed The Super …show more content…
In order for a team to join, the current owners have to take a vote on adding the team. If the team would pass the vote, they would then have to pay a fee to join the NFL. As I stated earlier, the last team to join, the Texans, had to pay $700 million to join the NFL (HoustonTexans.com). I personally think that the close league system is the best system for the NFL. Even though an open league system would push teams to be more competitive with the fear of relegation, the talent would be too diluted for NFL teams to have the success they have now. Each team has 53 players and they have a practice squad of 10 players. That would mean with the additions of even two teams, these teams would have to find a total of 126 more players to try and compete at the NFL level. The position that would take the biggest hit would have to be quarterbacks. We already see teams, like the Cleveland Browns and Chicago Bears, struggle to find quality starting quarterbacks. The Browns have had 21 different quarterbacks start a game since 2000, and the Bears have had 18 different quarterbacks start a game since 2000. Obviously some of those starting quarterbacks are due to the starting quarterback getting hurt, but this still proves that these two teams have had a major problem finding a quality quarterback. This just proves that even with 32 teams in the NFL, adding anymore teams would decrease the quality of quarterbacks in the NFL as a whole. Even though there is a huge amount of talent that gets passed on from the NCAA to the NFL, positions that need a quality player in order for the team to have success, would