Would you realign the NFL into Eastern & Western Conferences? Would it help Saints?

In favor of scheduling and dividing teams to reduce travel
All the rivalries and most divisions could still be left intact

Would be interesting but unless it make the NFL richer don’t expect them to ever consider it.

I don't know when they're going to do it, but since the league is all about creating more revenue venue at some point they're going to go to 18 games.

When they do that I think it would be cool if NFC teams played only other NFC teams like an all-conference type of season, you still get to play your division opponents twice.

Kind of do it like they used to do in the old days.

I always thought the best approach for scheduling would be to have all cross-conference games the first 4 (now 5) weeks of the season. Then you have the first 3 division games. Bye weeks would take place between weeks 9-15 (used to be 8-14), and you finish the year with the final 3 division games.

Maybe the Sun Belt conference.

Jerry would never let this happen.

Dem Boys play in the largest TV markets at least 3 times/year.

I think there is too many teams now to just split them between two divisions though...

Did your mother have any children that lived ??

It's all about television, which made the league what it is today.

The non-geographic conferences, of course, go back to the days immediately after the merger, with the AFC being the old AFL (plus three teams from the old NFL) and the NFC being all but three teams from the old NFL.

For a long time, it worked because there was basically two TV contracts, one aligned to the AFC and one to the NFC. Each network would show all away games for a team's market (as well as home games if they were sold out). Back when I was growing up, CBS had the NFC contract, NBC had the AFC contract-- and ABC had Monday Night Football. So the Saints were on CBS for all Sunday away games.

You had a pretty good breakdown in markets and states, evenly balanced between the two national network TV deals-- NYC had teams in each conference, as did the Bay Area at first, then Los Angeles ( NYC and LA being the two biggest TV markets). Texas was split between the Cowboys (NFC) and Oilers (NFC), as were states like Missouri, Florida and Pennsylvania.

Nowadays, they've added networks like Fox, ESPN, and the NFL Network to the mix, and have Thursday night and Sunday night games, as well as Thanksgiving NIGHT games. It's a lot more fragmented, but the basic reasoning and premise for two non-geographic conferences still holds true. It's all about the TV money.