So the schedule for the 2010 season of the NFL will be released tonight, but some news has already trickled out. Apparently, all the week 17 games will be divisional games. This will hopefully put an end to what happened a lot last year with the final games of the year really not mattering, because most teams had already clinched play off spots were not about to risk injuring their starters. Well most, we all saw what happened to Rex Welker of the Patriots during their game against the Texans that didn't really matter to the Patriots...and now he won't be back till sometime next season.
I think its a great change, I look forward to what the match ups for the end of the year will be. It won't fully solve the problem of teams resting and not really playing, but those divisional rivalries always lead to the most intense games of the season. I know in the AFC North: Browns, Bengals, Steelers and Ravens, none of those teams get along at all and none of the fans do either. So it will be especially nasty if the Browns were to ruin the chances of any of those teams, and vice versa. Though the idea of the Browns being on their way to a playoff spot is rich, so they will most likely play spoiler.
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