Update: Time to Come Clean
As many (and I mean, many) of outlets have reported, this isindeed a MOCK schedule that I completely made up for the NFL 2012 RegularSeason. If that's all you need to hear,that's fine. If you want to hear more,feel free to keep reading.
Sidenote: Text I received: "Well, you had a good run... Now Roger Goodell is gonna suspend you from watching the first 4 games of the season"
I'm a huge NFL fan. Yes, I have a life. Yes, I have ajob. In a roundabout way, I was inspiredto create this 2012 MOCK schedule by ESPN's NFL Playoff Machine (http://espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/machine). I started creating my own playoffs machine,which contained all 17 weeks of the regular season from 2011. I wanted to have this basic concept completed so that when the actual2012 schedule was released, I could quickly plug it in my template and then myplayoffs machine would be available to go live. However, I got a little over halfway done, and decided to switch gearsand see how difficult it would be to create a (somewhat) realistic schedule ofthe 2012 NFL Regular Season and see if it would pick up any steam. This started as a small project, but I had NOidea how much work had to be put in to fit the criteria for an NFL schedule.Such as:1. Cowboys @ Giants Week 12. Patriots @ Rams in London Week 8 (with Week 9 byes)3. At least two other games between a divisional repeat game4. No more than 3 consecutive home/away games (which myschedule doesn't even follow)5. Thanksgiving -
I posted this MOCK schedule Wednesdaynight (April 4th) and sent out a few generic tweets to see if anyone would pickit up. Well, Friday (April 6th) rolledaround and I saw the story posted on ProFootballTalk (http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/06/league-says-leaked-regular-season-schedule-is-bogus/). Immediately, I checked my blogspot and sawthat I had over 54,000 page views. As ofposting this update, I'm at over 83,000 page views. While it was amazing towatch it spread like wildfire, it was even more fun to see the excitement thatcomes behind the release of a simple schedule. I know people pointed out the flaws in my schedule left and right(Steelers/Bengals opening stretch, Bears schedule have all the away gamesfrontloaded in the schedule, Eagles having a Thursday game before the bye), buttrying to fix any one of those flaws leads to at least 2 or 3 more issues. I also clearly botched the 4:05pm vs 4:15pmthing, and just put all FOX games as 4:05pm and all CBS games as 4:15pm. With that being said, I don't envy all of thework that the NFL schedule makers have to do. If anything, it makes me respect them a lot more. I can't imagine how many drafts they createand how many times they think everything lines up, only to find one glaringmistake. I was extremely critical ofsome things in the schedule last year (like
But as I mentioned earlier, it wasentertaining to see what this fake schedule created around the internet. NFL Message Boards being flooded with topics andmessages analyzing the schedule. Everyfan base feels like their team deserves more PrimeTime games. Everyone said my MNF Schedule was atrocious(look at last years, I purposely picked less-than-stellar games). People started immediately going down theschedule and picking wins and losses. And last but not least, @incarceratedbob jumped on this story, posted itall over his twitter and blogspot, gave me absolutely no credit orrecognition, and tried to post my own work as his own. He also went as far astweeting, "**UPDATED NFL NEWS** NFL decides 2push back original date ofreleasing 2012 schedule(Leaked dates are why they moved back announcement) #IBN" While many websites posted the schedule, theyall said it was complete speculation and should be taken with a grain of salt. ProFootballTalk is, without a doubt, myfavorite website and there's never a moment where I don't have it up when I'mat my computer. If there was ever anydoubt that Incarcerated Bob was a complete and total fraud, this provesit. Credible websites likeProFootballTalk immediately squashed the story. Same goes for a ton of other websites.
Examples:http://nflmocks.com/2012/04/06/2012-nfl-schedule-leaked/http://www.prideofdetroit.com/2012/4/6/2929724/detroit-lions-2012-schedulehttp://raisingzona.com/2012/04/06/possible-2012-arizona-cardinals-schedule-released/http://www.turfshowtimes.com/2012/4/6/2930185/is-this-the-st-louis-rams-2012-schedulehttp://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/2012_nfl_regular_season_schedule_leaked_prematurely/10497950http://eaglesaddict.com/http:/www.eaglesaddict.com/2012-04-06/2012-nfl-regular-season-schedule-leaked-prematurely/http://blackandgold.com/saints/42972-2012-nfl-regular-season-schedule-leaked.htmlhttp://www.ganggreennation.com/2012/4/6/2930218/2012-schedule-leakedhttp://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/146527525.htmlhttp://riggosrag.com/2012/04/06/2012-nfl-regular-season-schedule-leaked/http://nflspinzone.com/2012/04/06/2012-nfl-regular-season-schedule-leaked/http://www.canalstreetchronicles.com/2012/4/6/2929613/2012-nfl-schedule-leakedhttp://sidelionreport.com/2012/04/06/2012-nfl-schedule-leak-likely-a-fake/http://www.pigskinbuzz.com/2012-nfl-schedule-leak-is-probably-fake-but-is-still-fun-to-look-at-2558http://arrowheadaddict.com/2012/04/06/leaked-2012-nfl-schedule-is-likely-a-fake/
With all of that out in the open,feel free to contact me via my twitter @EaglesStats or email meeaglesstats@gmail.com. And like Imentioned earlier, I'll be the first one to analyze the real NFL schedule, onceit's actually available on Tuesday, April 17th at 7:00pm. Thanks for the page views, and I'll actuallygo back to publishing Eagles stats when the 2012 NFL season rolls around.
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