That combined with all the shit their football team pulled and I don’t see them staying in the Big XII. Someone is probably brought in to replace them, possibly a Boise State.
I don't think Bledsoe is ever as clutch as Brady to pull off that comeback drive to set up for the last second field goal. So the Rams beat the Patriots.
I don't see Jimmy going to the USFL at that time. He probably stays at Oklahoma St. for two more years. Then, at the end of the 1985 season, the job at Pitt (Johnson used to be an assistant there) opens up after Foge Fazio's firing, and Jimmy Johnson goes there to be the head coach. With Jimmy, I expect them to do better in 1987 and 88 than they did in reality. However, I still see Jerry Jones calling, and he leaves Pitt in 1989 to turn around the once-proud Cowboy franchise.
The version that takes on the forward pass becomes the one people know the best while the version without it becomes more of a niche sport played mostly at American colleges.
So basically American Football answer to Rugby League and Union?
I doubt it. Don't know why I doubt it but I really doubt it.
I like the idea but the MLB might force them to just join the International League (Triple-A East now... (that still frustrates and upsets me)). I personally like the idea of another Canada team in the IL as they lost the Ottawa Lynx after 2007 OTL. Could actually help springboard more teams into Canada if the team becomes a success.
Personally I'd love to make a timeline where this happens and its based on geography. The reason for this is that in the early 1900's the Cal-Stanford game was actually a rugby game from 1906-1914 and only changed because Cal didn't agree with Stanford's use of freshman on the team and it was so bad of a split that they didn't play for two years. Anyways, during this time, it wasn't only Cal and Stanford, but USC, Nevada, and Santa Clara who played Rugby as well as other teams. Basically rather than switching back to football, you see teams in California Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Idaho play Rugby instead of football. Eventually the west becomes more of a Rugby while football is popular east of the Rockies and in the Southwest in Arizona and New Mexico.
Well, the best case I have heard, especially on here, has been Canada with the CFL taking a slight tilt towards league via taking the "play the ball" rule over the snap back and being early enough to butterfly the forward pass from being introduced. Add the non-forward pass West coast system, and you probably get a NARA system that affects the trajectory of league as well as the rivalry of the East v. West coasts.
So the Toronto Blue Jays could also be meeting baseball representatives from Montreal and Ottawa to keep the professional baseball spirit in Eastern Canada alive.
Naming a team after something off the wall that ends up on people’s dinner plates? Even co-opting the name Thunderbirds would be an improvement.
That’s one hell of a receiving corps, but it may butterfly Montana to Rice if the 49ers decide they’re set at wideout. I definitely thing the 49ers do better against the Raiders than Washington did, but beating them on a day like that would have been a tall order. My guess is that it becomes a high-scoring game and the 49ers lose by a TD, say, 38-31 or something.
And meanwhile, their division rival the Dolphins have turned Tunsil into the gift that keeps on giving of picks.
