With the Angels/Indians playing in Miller Park, I was thinking more things should be at neutral sites.
Reason #1: How about a 17th NFL game for everyone. Each team plays one game in LA, so there's no expansion team there. Each team still gets 8 home and away games. Add a week to the season so 18 weeks. 16 weeks of the year there's a game in LA, between a different of the 32 teams. Or rotate that game in multiple places besides LA, like England, Mexico City or wherever.
Reason #2: Or say this year, Milwaukee could offer the Bucks up to play at different places like Branson, Anchorage, and Cheyenne. No lose situation. Bucks fan's win because they don't have to watch and people in those towns see real live NBA action.
Reason #3: The Badgers really struggled this year with neutral site games. 3 of their 5 losses came not at their opponents arena but at a neutral site. I think they would have benefited from playing in a neutral arena more often. Maybe the 50/50 fan base confused them.
Reason #4: Why even have city names attached to some teams? With the Heat, Diamondbacks, Marlins winning championships with players that were there for only one or a couple seasons do those towns even identify with them? Sure Miami and Phoenix are big time cities but no tradition might as well start a new trend.
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I am a really big fan of reason #1, but I think they should institute some crazy rule where the top 16 teams only get seven home games the next year and the bottom 16 teams get the standard eight home games in the NFL rotation in Los Angeles. It possibly evens the playing field. How about that year long suspension for Adam "Pacman" Jones?
Neutral sites - The oldest knockout tournament in the world, the FA Cup, picks the home team out of a hat until the tourney gets to the semifinals, then goes to neutral sites for the semis followed by the final that is player at one of two national stadiums.
I think the Superbowl belongs in a neutral site since it is decided by only one game versus a seven game series, but the problem is the US is too big to have it one place every year. It would be easy to just say LA every year, but really, who wants to go there anyway.
Baseball and Basketball should always be the best overall record with no neutral sites, ever, unless due to poor weather or feature films. There are no other sports that I care to comment on.
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