This is just insane.
Paging Mr. Goodell: Can We Settle The AFC Wild Card With A Death Match?
↵After the Jets and Dolphins faltered this afternoon, there are now five teams sitting at .500 in the AFC. Should the Ravens lose vs. the Bears and the Steelers win vs. the Packers, that will make seven. Err.. Let’s repeat that.
↵SEVEN TEAMS TIED FOR SIXTH PLACE.
↵Of course, there are all sorts of labrinthine means of breaking that tie—conference record, head-to-head matchups, some convoluted strength of schedule rating--but really, there’s a chance that this could be a once-in-a-lifetime type thing. Why not make the most of it?
↵If seven teams finish at 8-8—and with the way things have gone, don’t rule it out—we should just gather all seven teams, and maybe include the Raiders just for fun, and have them fight to the death in the abandoned Pontiac Silverdome. It may sound like hyperbole, but imagine 400 football players in full uniform battling it out for the playoffs... Exclusively on the NFL Network!
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It'd be like a Y2K scenario... What would happen if everyone tied? In a word:
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