Why the NFL would like survival Sunday!
This article examines the contrast between the English Premier League and the NFL and examines why the NFL would like to have days like 'Survival Sunday', but will never be...
I like soccer. I hate being called "football". Which is considered as the pure Americanism, but in the defence of this, the Americans got it at the origin of a Word, it is not much to me.
I also like the NFL. The two games are very different, both in structure and the appeal, and in this article, I would like to consider a difference that was driven home on Sunday, May 22, 2011 in the Premier League English. I will say that you read on, that I will use "football" and "NFL" to set the two sports. OK, ready? Here we go...
May 22, 2011 has been dubbed 'Survival Sunday' in the English Premier League. Each season, 3 of 20 teams are relegated into lower division. Which is based on the end table after each team played the other two times.
The last day of the season 2010/11, a team was already relegated, but none of the other 5 teams might have finished another down 2 places. It all depends on the results of the games of the last day.
Relegation from the Premier League is a disaster for any club. Not only do lose about 70 million in TV money, but they lose their top quality players to play in the first division.
These two factors are enough to pass back the hard League, although it is possible to obtain right promoted from backup again next season.
"Survival Sunday" was superb. Goals flew in full the relevant games and the 2 remaining relegation slots changed repeatedly between the teams.
Fans went to the exaltation of despair and vice versa. It could hardly be any better example of why so many people love sport - it connects real life and emotions.
Quite simply, the NFL does not offer the same scenario. There was no League structure whose entire team can get down/promoted. Each team is a franchise of the central business, you cannot just start own team and work your way up.
Several teams have been relegated to the football. The fragile financial balance of many clubs can crush with alarming speed, and names seem to be a fixture in the top flight can find themselves password trap and division.
Can you imagine the Dallas Cowboys, the so-called "America's team", being relegated to a lower level? No, and this is what prevents the development of real roots of the NFL outside the United States.
The NFL, the National Football League, were implemented as enterprise, structured (in the same way as the game itself) to contain the sports show as a package. It also works, and I like the combination of tactics and athletics.
The play-off system gives an element of knockout sudden death in the season, but if a team loses, they know that they have next season to try again.
Not so first League, where failure will send you top flight for an entire season at least. Who knows, perhaps a relegated team * never * again be in the first division.
This is what is missing from the NFL. I like to watch the excitement of the first day of the season NFL playoffs and the Superbowl, but I think that it will be always jealous of survival Sunday', and this is a map that the Premier League can still use an asset.
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