RG messing with a good thing yet again .... wants to expand playoffs

vpheughan · 12-13-2012, 07:45 PM

Bring back the "Runner Up" bowl to replace the Pro Bowl. There was such a thing at one time.

WhoDat!656 · 12-14-2012, 05:34 PM

Originally Posted by vpheughan

Bring back the "Runner Up" bowl to replace the Pro Bowl. There was such a thing at one time.

Should be the losers of the Conference Championship games!

SloMotion · 12-15-2012, 05:19 AM

Originally Posted by vpheughan

Bring back the "Runner Up" bowl to replace the Pro Bowl. There was such a thing at one time.

I did not know that. I was around back then, but under the age of ten, so I'm correct in assuming that while my Dad sat me down & made me watch football with him, I wasn't necessarily that interested until after the age of 8-10yrs.

Great idea, as opposed to playing the ProBowl. At least the game could have some meaning. Doesn't seem like the players/coaches had much interest in it, but Lombardi (as great as he was) tended to be a bit of an S.O.B. all the time anyway,

... come on, we all know it, I'm just sayin' what everybody's thinking,

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Originally Posted by Wikipedia, excerpts from 'Playoff Bowl'

The Playoff Bowl (officially, the Bert Bell Benefit Bowl) was a post-season game for third place in the NFL, played ten times following the 1960-69 seasons. Bell was a co-founder of the Philadelphia Eagles as well as a co-owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers during much of the 1940s. He was the commissioner of the NFL from 1946 until his death in October 1959, which occurred while attending an Eagles-Steelers game ...

- All ten games in the Playoff Bowl series were contested at the Orange Bowl in Miami. The games were played in January, the week following the NFL championship game (and the collegiate Orange Bowl game on New Year's Day). The NFL's Pro Bowl (all-star game) was played the week after the Playoff Bowl ...

- When the merger was completed for the 1970 season, there was discussion about continuing the Playoff Bowl, with the losers of the AFC and NFC Championship Games playing each other during the idle week before the Super Bowl. There were now seven post-season games in the NFL (three for each conference, plus the Super Bowl), and the Pro Bowl all-star game. A "loser's game" was not necessarily attractive for the league, and the Playoff Bowl came to an end ...

- Although the ten Playoff Bowls were official third place playoff games at the time they were played, the NFL currently classifies them as exhibition games, and does not include them in the official results (or statistics) for the post-season ...

- Vince Lombardi detested the Playoff Bowl, coaching in the games following the 1963 and 1964 seasons, after winning NFL titles in 1961 and 1962. To his players, he called it "the '**** Bowl', ...a losers' bowl for losers." This lack of motivation may explain his Packers' rare postseason defeat in the 1964 game (January 1965) to the St. Louis Cardinals. After that loss, he fumed about "a hinky-dink football game, held in a hinky-dink town, played by hinky-dink players. That's all second place is – hinky dink." ...

- All-Pro defensive tackle Roger Brown appeared in five Playoff Bowls, the most by any player, and was on the winning side each time (Detroit Lions, 1960–61–62; Los Angeles Rams, 1967, 1969). He said playing in those seemingly meaningless contests was like having "the worst inferiority complex." He added, "I was in five of them, and to have played in it five in the ten years it was in existence is pitiful." ...

Playoff Bowl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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12-15-2012, 05:19 AM	#3
SloMotion 5000 POSTS! + Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 6,776 Blog Entries: 15	Re: RG messing with a good thing yet again .... wants to expand playoffs Originally Posted by vpheughan Bring back the "Runner Up" bowl to replace the Pro Bowl. There was such a thing at one time. I did not know that. I was around back then, but under the age of ten, so I'm correct in assuming that while my Dad sat me down & made me watch football with him, I wasn't necessarily that interested until after the age of 8-10yrs. Great idea, as opposed to playing the ProBowl. At least the game could have some meaning. Doesn't seem like the players/coaches had much interest in it, but Lombardi (as great as he was) tended to be a bit of an S.O.B. all the time anyway, ... come on, we all know it, I'm just sayin' what everybody's thinking, . Originally Posted by Wikipedia, excerpts from 'Playoff Bowl' The Playoff Bowl (officially, the Bert Bell Benefit Bowl) was a post-season game for third place in the NFL, played ten times following the 1960-69 seasons. Bell was a co-founder of the Philadelphia Eagles as well as a co-owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers during much of the 1940s. He was the commissioner of the NFL from 1946 until his death in October 1959, which occurred while attending an Eagles-Steelers game ... - All ten games in the Playoff Bowl series were contested at the Orange Bowl in Miami. The games were played in January, the week following the NFL championship game (and the collegiate Orange Bowl game on New Year's Day). The NFL's Pro Bowl (all-star game) was played the week after the Playoff Bowl ... - When the merger was completed for the 1970 season, there was discussion about continuing the Playoff Bowl, with the losers of the AFC and NFC Championship Games playing each other during the idle week before the Super Bowl. There were now seven post-season games in the NFL (three for each conference, plus the Super Bowl), and the Pro Bowl all-star game. A "loser's game" was not necessarily attractive for the league, and the Playoff Bowl came to an end ... - Although the ten Playoff Bowls were official third place playoff games at the time they were played, the NFL currently classifies them as exhibition games, and does not include them in the official results (or statistics) for the post-season ... - Vince Lombardi detested the Playoff Bowl, coaching in the games following the 1963 and 1964 seasons, after winning NFL titles in 1961 and 1962. To his players, he called it "the '**** Bowl', ...a losers' bowl for losers." This lack of motivation may explain his Packers' rare postseason defeat in the 1964 game (January 1965) to the St. Louis Cardinals. After that loss, he fumed about "a hinky-dink football game, held in a hinky-dink town, played by hinky-dink players. That's all second place is – hinky dink." ... - All-Pro defensive tackle Roger Brown appeared in five Playoff Bowls, the most by any player, and was on the winning side each time (Detroit Lions, 1960–61–62; Los Angeles Rams, 1967, 1969). He said playing in those seemingly meaningless contests was like having "the worst inferiority complex." He added, "I was in five of them, and to have played in it five in the ten years it was in existence is pitiful." ... Playoff Bowl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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