*** Quoting Ed Grinnell from a message to Barry Laws, Jr. ***
EG> leagues. The NFL's needed thiskind of realignment but they won't do 
EG> it because NFC East teams don't want to lose Dallas as an opponent 
EG> (and major drawing card).
I read about the proposed MLB realignment in yesterday's paper, and I have 
one comment...why not rename the American League the Eastern Conference and 
the National League the Western Conference? Maybe MLB could align like the 
NHL and have an Atlantic Division and a Northeast Division (those would be 
the divisions in the AL) and a Central Division and a Pacific Division (that 
would be for the NL)...and they could still award the AL trophy for the 
winners of the Eastern Conference, and the NL trophy for the winners of the 
Western Conference. Of course, people wouldn't like to see the proverbial end 
of the AL and NL, but that's what it seems to me.
About the NFL, you make sense. They should just have 2 divisions per 
conference (NFC East, NFC West, AFC East, and AFC West). This is a possible 
idea for NFL alignment, and tell me what you think (what you like and what 
you don't like)...
NFC                               AFC
Eastern Division                  Eastern Division
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Tampa Bay                         Miami
Carolina                          Buffalo
Atlanta                           New England 
New York Giants                   New York Jets
Washington                        Baltimore
Philadelphia                      Pittsburgh
Dallas                            Indianapolis
New Orleans                       Tennessee
Western Division                  Western Division
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San Francisco                     Denver
St. Louis                         Kansas City
Arizona                           Seattle
Chicago                           Oakland
Minnesota                         San Diego
Detroit                           Cleveland
Green Bay                         Cincinnati
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