David Rosenthal

I didn't realize it was that long because television is going to come in a big way.

But back to Burt Bell, the newly drafted commissioner of the NFL, this is his great insight that he realizes as he's marshalling the NFL owners in the battle against the AFC.

He adopts this as his mantra that literally, I mean, they made a movie with this title.

On any given Sunday, any team in the league should be able to beat any other team.

And he pushes this through with the owners and gets them all to agree to this of like, hey, the only way we're going to survive and prosper is if we agree that none of our teams can get so dominant that we end up with a Cleveland Browns situation.

Yes, exactly.

Which makes total sense.

Vanta has really evolved beyond compliance automation to actually building trust with your customers better than you could on your own.

And that trust is what closes deals.

That is a lot of time back for their engineers to focus on growth.

Any given Sunday.

So Burt and the NFL do two things.

First, he completely overhauls the way the schedule works.

So in the past, the schedule would be just like, yeah, whatever, you know, we're all going to play each other, you know, in random order.

he realizes that the schedule is actually an incredibly important strategic lever.

And he looks at the results from last year's season and arranges the schedule such that the weaker teams from last year play the other weaker teams for the first half of the season, and the stronger teams from the previous season play the other stronger teams for the first half of the season.

So that way, he can come as close as possible to guaranteeing that

roughly everybody's going to have statistically a relatively even 50-50 record going into the midway point in the season.

So there's going to be drama about who's going to end up winning, even though the actual level of talent might diverge quite a bit within the league.

And the NFL still does this to this day.