The Baltimore Orioles were eliminated from playoff contention on August 23. Strange way to begin a football column, I know, but hang in there. The Orioles served as one of last spring and summer’s poster boys for a sweeping trend across sports, entering 2019 in full-on tank mode. It went well. After racking up 88 losses in their first 129 games, they became the first team mathematically eliminated from postseason contention. At that point, the team had nothing to play for by the traditional standard of competitive sports, but still had to slog through 33 more meaningless baseball games until the schedule-makers mercifully ran out of ink.
Expanding the NFL Schedule to 17 Games Would Give Us More Bad Games
