01-03-2023, 12:06 PM
(01-03-2023, 11:56 AM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: I think the most likely scenario is they call it a tie.
I think the second most likely scenario is they call it a Bengals win because they were leading at the time and the player that was at the center of the postponement was a Bills player (Call it a "forfeit due to injury" on the Bills' part).
I think the third most likely scenario is they replay the game on either Tuesday or Wednesday night. Hopefully, they also move the teams' Week 18 game back a day or two, but who knows at this point. I think this is unlikely because it would be in incredibly poor taste to move a game in the name of player safety, only to create a new unsafe situation by having teams play on an extremely short week (Wednesday to Sunday).
The least likely scenario, but perhaps the most "fair," would be to postpone the entire season a week, have the Bengals and Bills play next weekend, and then have week 18 the following weekend. You can either postpone everything a week or you can cancel the pro bowl to keep the Super Bowl date in place. The reason this is least likely is because you'd be re-scheduling literally hundreds of thousands of tickets by a whole week. The number of hotel, airplane and other accommodations required for those hundreds of thousands of fans would be nearly impossible to properly compensate.
The more I think about it the more I think that this just doesn't happen. This would **** so many teams over. You think the Ravens owners wouldn't have something to say about this? It basically hands Cincy the division, a home playoff game, and millions of dollars in revenue.
There is just no way that they can't NOT play this game. Too many things involved. The NFL needs to schedule it and if Buffalo doesn't want to play, they always have the option to forfeit.
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