I need your help!!!!!

[The Rookie]

I am going to put together a solitare NFL league .
I will play 16 games and have a playoff.
This may take me years to complete , and I will take my time.
What I need from all of you is opinons
What I need is your all time best teams from all teams
I know this will be hard but I will count them up and play the seasons with your help

Thanks

[Orleanian In Exile]

You could go classic and run with the old NFL and AFL pre-merger (as Capanther does). Or, you could pick the 16 teams which have the most championship appearances in their respective histories for your league.

You could base your league on the old NFL 1938-1960 —the original teams plus the ones which lasted only a few years like the 1930s Brooklyn Dodgers, the old Dallas Texans, and the New York Titans to round out the lineup (and makes for an interesting twist in that you have the Cardinals in Chicago, the Rams and Browns in Cleveland, and a New York with three NFL teams).

Playing a season shouldn't take years. You could try using a system which one coach here uses to run his 120 team solitaire college league, in which he plays one possession set per side and the final score is determined by yardage gained in addition to any touchdowns or field goals scored. Pick one or two matchups as your "games of the week" to really indulge a full game. Playoffs and championships you play full games, of course. If you decide to go full games all the way, it should still be possible to play a 80/88-game season (10/11 games per team —which works out to 80/88 matchups) within one year's time. It will take a little longer, but would be the way to go if you're also going to keep player stats instead of a simple record of final scores.

[The Rookie]

Thanks Orleans
That is some good ideas
The reason That I thought it mite take along time is because I play in the DFW< S.A and will Play in the collage league this year. Not alot of time .
I teach school so in the summer I will hit it hard.

Thanks for the ideas

[Orleanian In Exile]

To clarify how this fast-play game works (from memory, since I can't seem to find the original post on this and it was only a few weeks ago), this coach's idea is that each team gets four downs and starts from midfield. The number of yards gained is the score for that team. So that if, say, the Bears and Browns are playing and the Bears gain 26 yards and the Browns only 13, the final score is 26-13. If one team goes all the way for a touchdown, that's 57 points. If one team gains 22 yards and makes a field goal, that's 25 points. If a team fails to gain anything or goes into negative yardage, their score is 0. It's a good way, from what I read, to run a season with a large league; by compressing the season games down to ten minute sessions on the board so as to fill out the schedule, compile W-L-T records in a few weeks, and determine the qualifiers for the postseason.

[The Rookie]

I think you got it right >
I think Norbert plays his College season that way.
Thanks again for the reminder

[Orleanian In Exile]

Found my saved copy of that post and it was 46defense who came up with the idea. Credit where due.