If your talking about parity in sports, all you have to do is look at this weekend’s games in the National Football League. There are 13 games slated for this weekend in the NFL and not one of those games match teams with winning records.

If you include the three games played on Thanksgiving Day, there is only one game during week 12 of the NFL that matches winning teams against each other.

The Green Bay Packers (9-1) traveled to Detroit (6-4) to take on the Lions at Ford Field on Turkey Day. The Packers recorded their 10th win of the season as they crushed the Lions, 37-26, in a game where Brett Favre threw for 381 yards and three touchdowns.

The National Football League is the biggest sports business entity in the world and they can put whatever product they want out on the field and people will come to the games and watch them on TV because their product is so good.

Maybe the other major sports in America should take a look at how the NFL operates and model their sports against the way the NFL is run. I don’t agree with everything the NFL does, including some of the rules of the game, but it is the only league that can put losing teams on a field and still sellout the stadiums.

Take a look at South Florida where the Florida Marlins and Miami Dolphins play their home games in Dolphin Stadium (capacity: 75,625 football/47,662 baseball).

The Marlins have won two World Series titles in just a little over 10 years of being in existence. The Marlins, once considered a team to be eliminated by MLB, was last in attendance in baseball last year. The last place Marlins drew an average of 16,919 fans per game to Dolphin Stadium.

The Dolphins are the only winless team in the NFL at 0-10 this season. The Dolphins are averaging 73,196 fans per home game this season. That number includes a home game they played in London were they drew 81,176 fans for a game against the New York Giants. The average attendance at Dolphin Stadium for their other four home games is 71,200.

Attendance isn’t just a problem is South Florida between MLB and the NFL. The bottom 12 teams in attendance in MLB play in NFL cities that sellout their stadiums for every home game of the season.

While the cry from MLB and other major sports is that they play a longer schedule than the NFL, it is plain to see that the NFL is a superior product and always will be until the other sports change their ways.

Parity sucks in most sports but the one that it can survive in is the National Football League. Their is nothing better in the world of sports than watching professional football from the opening of training camp through the Super Bowl.

It usually isn’t good when you marquee matchup for the weekend is either the San Diego Chargers (5-5) hosting the Baltimore Ravens (4-6) or the Denver Broncos (5-5) traveling to Chicago to take on the 4-6 Bears.

Only in the National Football League does PARITY work.