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To: MythMan who wrote (5708)	1/21/2001 8:08:02 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 45639

Readying For Realignment It didn't really get a lot of publicity, but when owners voted earlier this week to restructure the manner in which ticket revenues are paid out to visiting teams, the move helped to alleviate one of he major hurdles to realigning the league for the 2002 season. In fact, kudos to commissioner Paul Tagliabue for shepherding the new method through the league. In the past, visiting teams received 40 percent of the ticket revenues, less taxes. That did not, in most cases, include revenues derived from luxury suites or club seats. The problem was that not all 40 percents were created equal. A visiting team playing at the Georgia Dome, for instance, in front of the usual 40,000 empty seats, netted far less than a team visiting the sold-out Trans World Dome in St. Louis. Some owners, citing the inequity, balked at several of the realignment plans being floated. Under the method adopted this week, all revenues for visiting teams will be placed into one pool, then distributed equally among all the teams. "Pretty simple, really, but, with these guys, a veritable masterstroke," said one NFC owner. The plan doesn't mean realignment won't still be a hard-won battle. The league must realign, by a proposal passed when the Houston Texans were granted a franchise, by June 1 of this year. That means realignment will top the agenda at the annual owners meeting in March. The plan most likely to pass is the one developed by Steelers president Dan Rooney more than a year ago. Under his model, first reported by SportsLine.com shortly after Rooney proposed it, a reshuffled eight-division NFL would look this way: NFC East: New York Giants, Dallas, Philadelphia and Washington. NFC Central: Chicago, Detroit, Green Bay and Minnesota. NFC West: Arizona, San Francisco, St. Louis and Seattle. NFC South: Atlanta, Tampa Bay, New Orleans and Carolina. AFC East: New York Jets, Buffalo, New England and Miami. AFC Central: Baltimore, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. AFC West: Denver, Oakland, Kansas City and San Diego. AFC South: Houston, Tennessee, Jacksonville and Indianapolis.