Relegation needs to be brought to the United States

At the end of the NFL's season we had two winners, the Super Bowl champion New York Giants and the Andrew Luck sweepstakes winner the Indianapolis Colts. In professional American sports this tends to be the case, the worst teams get the best players in the draft or at least a better chance at them. So in the NFL it is common practice to, more or less, lose your games at the end of the season in the hopes that your draft pick will be higher.

Now I'm not saying that teams are throwing games, but this systems seems a little flawed to me. A team is rewarded for not playing as well as the others. The Colts for years will be a high end team again because they had a bad season this past year.

Can someone explain that to me? Like seriously how in the world does that make sense? You could in theory lose all of your games on purpose for 2 or 3 straight years and then dominate the league, that is a horrible system. Yes it is based on the principle of balance and a cycling of teams, but it's just downright stupid.

So I propose we change things up a bit. We should adopt the system of promotion and relegation that they use in England's Premier League.

Now for those of you who aren't familiar, which I assume is most of you let me explain. The Premier League has multiple levels that exist within it, sort of like if the minor leagues in baseball weren't farm teams and were there own franchises. Anyway these levels compete within themselves until positions in the final standings are determined.

Seems pretty similar, but here is where we get to the really interesting part. Once the standings are set, the lower teams in the division are dropped (or relegated) to the next lowest division, and the higher teams are raised (or promoted) into the next highest division. So if a team finishes last in the highest league it will trade places with the team that finished first in the 2nd highest league.

This would end the practice of playing poorly to do well in the draft and force teams to play every game like it was there most important of the season.

I know that there are flaws to this plan. What would happen to the draft? How would the teams remain evenly balanced and newcomers enter into mix for a title? But these are issues for Bud Selig, David Stern, and Roger Goodell to figure out. 

This system will probably never make its way over to the states, but one can always dream.