Eat My Sports: Stormy Seahawks

If any of you read this column religiously (and let’s face it, who doesn’t?), you know that I like to pick games based on the spreads, not just an outright winner. Some may call it a gambler’s take, I just view at as a way to measure how much you actually know about football. Now, as it pertains to the NFL, I was wondering how in the hell the Seahawks at 7-9 got a home game, and how you can make a home team in a NFL playoff game a 10.5 dog at home, especially at Qwest Field. So naturally, I picked the ‘hawks on gut instinct. And all that instinct did was prove everything that is currently wrong with the NFL playoff structure.

The Seahawks, at a paltry 7-9 were seeded fourth over the defending champion Saints at 11-5, who boasted a four game better record, had to travel across the country to a team who was one touchdown drive away from being 6-10. Now, to the Seahawks credit, they played the game of their lives, but that game does not have the same outcome in New Orleans, period.

The NBA, for all of it’s terrible flaws, actually has the best system in place. If you are seeded higher, but have a worse record than your opponent, then your opponent gets homecourt advantage in that round of the playoffs. This system was put in place after some very mediocre teams in the East were getting homecourt over 55-win teams like the Pistons of a few years back.

The NFL should adopt the same system, or else we risk the possibility of having a 6-10 Rams team versus a 7-9 Chargers team in the Super Bowl, yikes.