NFL "what-if" scenarios thread

[CSKreager]

What if Morten Andersen makes his 1996 Week 17 FG and the Jaguars miss the playoffs?

[7DnBrnc53]

What if Morten Andersen makes his 1996 Week 17 FG and the Jaguars miss the playoffs?

Denver probably ends up winning the SB that year without Jacksonville in their way.

[SeahawkFever]

What if Morten Andersen makes his 1996 Week 17 FG and the Jaguars miss the playoffs?

Denver probably ends up winning the SB that year without Jacksonville in their way.

Who would have made the playoffs in Jacksonville’s place if the kick is made? And is that team beating Buffalo? (Jacksonville beat them before Denver)

[CSKreager]

What if Morten Andersen makes his 1996 Week 17 FG and the Jaguars miss the playoffs?

Denver probably ends up winning the SB that year without Jacksonville in their way.

Who would have made the playoffs in Jacksonville’s place if the kick is made?

Kansas City

[SeahawkFever]

Denver probably ends up winning the SB that year without Jacksonville in their way.

Who would have made the playoffs in Jacksonville’s place if the kick is made?

Kansas City

Do you think Kansas City in 96 is beating Buffalo and Denver like Jacksonville did?

[7DnBrnc53]

Do you think Kansas City in 96 is beating Buffalo and Denver like Jacksonville did?

No. And, I don't think the Bills beat Denver. Broncos go on to beat NE and GB and win the Super Bowl.

[7DnBrnc53]

In late 1962 and early 1963, the Raiders and Chiefs had futures that were in doubt (as far as staying in their current cities was concerned):

https://crescentcitysports.com/before-t ... w-orleans/

Also, here are a bunch of articles from late 1962 that talk about how the Raiders were on their way out of Oakland:

https://www.imagebam.com/view/GAGP6C

[ShinobiMusashi]

What if in 1993 instead of the Super Bowl being in the Georgia Dome the NFL went back to the old way where the team with the best record hosted the title game in their home stadium? Could the Cowboys have beat Buffalo in Buffalo in this scenario? Were the 90 Giants, 91 Redskins, (92 the Bills beat the Dolphins in Miami in AFCCG, but hell swap the Oilers out with the 92 Cowboys in that Wild Card game in that stadium on that day), 93 Cowboys good enough to beat the Bills in Buffalo?

[74_75_78_79_]

What if in 1993 instead of the Super Bowl being in the Georgia Dome the NFL went back to the old way where the team with the best record hosted the title game in their home stadium? Could the Cowboys have beat Buffalo in Buffalo in this scenario? Were the 90 Giants, 91 Redskins, (92 the Bills beat the Dolphins in Miami in AFCCG, but hell swap the Oilers out with the 92 Cowboys in that Wild Card game in that stadium on that day), 93 Cowboys good enough to beat the Bills in Buffalo?

It, actually, used to be each conference champ 'taking turns' hosting the League Championship Game. Since the 1970 merger, the NFC champ is the designated 'home' team in even numbered years, the AFC champ in odd years. In Super Bowl V, Dallas was made to wear their blue jerseys because they were the 'home' team; they couldn't choose what jerseys to wear as normal. But the League backed off from that sometime shortly after - Dallas got to play in white 'at home' against Pittsburgh at the Orange Bowl on Sunday, January 21, 1979.

As for your mentioned SBXXVIII what-if scenario...Bills are the 'home' team anyway given the odd-numbered year at hand. Bills host Washington two years prior as well. They were such a superior team at home during that era, but we never got to see them host an NFC power in a high-stakes game. IMO, Bills still lose both these games at Rich. Maybe they play a little better than they did IRL at both neutral sites, but neither game at all a nail-biter either. Also, IMO, the Steelers and especially Raiders win at Minny in Jan '75 & Jan '77 respectively.

Interesting to think of all those hypo SBs with NFC (even) and AFC (odd) taking turns hosting the Big Game.

[CSKreager]

1979

What if Washington beats Dallas in week 16?

The Redskins win the East, shoot up to a #1 overall seed, Chicago misses the playoffs, and the Cowboys have to go on the road to Philly for a wild card game against a team they barely escaped 2 weeks earlier at the Vet.

Because of the “no divisional round division games” stipulation, Cowboys/Eagles would have been for a trip to Tampa while the Rams instead of Texas are RFK bound.