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1 0D DETROIT FREE PRESSTHURSDAY, DEC. 7, 1978 sa cza est csa ksei egm csa era ess ezs ess era ft- A couple more losses by Lions could make for an easier schedule next year 0 Malittnnc Special Change transmission fluid Adjust bands Clean screen Replace pan-gasket. Complete road test, f. Q' phis fluid The purpose of this service is to "What I would like to do is win the last two games and change the formula," roach Monte Clark said with a laugh, responding to the suggestion that the Lions would be better off Oiler expires December 9, 1973 Regular Price $13.95 help prevent transmission problems, Where applicable. 0 WtRREN 23400 Diquindre II 759 4200 SI one division champion (outside its own division) on the schedule, compared to three outside division winners for the fourth place team.

"That's what we'll shoot for then," Clark said agreeably. It's definitely more appealing than aiming at a last place finish. the 0 teams on Its schedule: New England, the New York Jets, St. Louis and Los Angeles on the road; Miami, Baltimore, Dallas and San Francisco at home. And the third place finisher would meet these teams in 1979: Miami, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Atlanta on the road; New England, the Jets, Washington and New DETROIT 16800 Plymouth ltd.

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New York Giants and Kansas City, with home games against Atlanta, San Francisco, the Giants and Buffalo. The fourth place finisher would have the following has no intention of throwing the last two games. THE SCHEDULING variables, nevertheless, remain intriguing under the master formula being used for the first It might be noted that the third place finisher has only Rfiffl PAINT SALE Sale starts today and ends Sat. For Hie WBRB Scores with of Basketball! By CURT SYLVESTER Free Pr.ti Sporli Writer Never mind those 15teams batting their brains out for the 10 Super Bowl playoff spots. The Lions are in a race of their own.

A red-hot, three-team race and to the loser belongs the spoils. All the Lions have to do is stand off the challenge of Chicago and Tampa Bay to finish last in the Central Division and they've got what every also-ran craves the easiest schedule the National Football League can put together for the 1979 season. JUST RELAX, think ahead to a nice vacation in the sun, let Minnesota and San Francisco have these last two games and get ready to clean up on San Francisco, Buffalo and Kansas City next season. That's the way it is nowadays in the advanced age of scientific scheduling in the NFL. If you're not the abso-, lute best, it pays to be the absolute worst.

As repulsive as the idea must be to Monte Clark, if the Lions should finish in last place, their 1979 schedule would be made up of teams with a composite record of 65-87-2 (according to current NFL standings) and only two of them would be division I "fll INTERIOR" IATFXRA1 SS Waii a. ium PA N1 on interior I Uof vs. OREGON on "interior time this season. The current scheduling system was devised, according to the league's 1978 Media Information Book, to "provide for both competitive equality ar.cl a variety of opponents." The general feeling in the league is that is has succeeded, that the new schedule is one of the reasons for so many close races, with only a couple of teams Cincinnati and San Francisco totally out of the picture. According to the NFL master formula, every team plays home-and-home with every other team in its division.

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