Kyler Murray is one of the most important people in the National Football League. And I don’t mean some kind of top-100 list, which would include Roger Goodell, Travis Kelce, the director of officiating and whoever makes out the television schedule.
I mean, the former Sooner star will have an oversized say in whether NFL conference parity gets capsized.
We haven’t talked about conference parity in years. But it once was a thing. A big thing.
From the 1981 through 1996 seasons, the American Conference won just one Super Bowl, and that was courtesy of the 1983 Raiders.