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Originally Posted by jjchieffan
I was listening to Late hits on Sirius NFL radio the other day. They had Bill Polian on there. He claimed that when NE and Indy were playing each other pretty much every year that NE got way more home games. He claimed that it happened due to the schedulers making the networks happy instead of following a formula. I would think that he was full of shit, but he was on the competition committee, so you would think that he would know
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Yeah that's not true. The schedules have a formula that goes years in advance. You can literally look right now at the Chiefs schedule the next 3-4 years.
https://fbschedules.com/nfl/kansas-city-chiefs/
It just worked out that Manning got hurt when it had rotated around to New England getting the home games for 2-3 years in a row based on the formula. These are all the Manning/Brady regular season games once they went to the current divisions:
2003 - @ IND
2004 - @ NE
2005 - @ NE
2006 - @ NE
2007 - @ IND
2008 - @ IND
2009 - @ IND
2010 - @ NE