NFL closer to 17 game regular season

[Theodore]

The NFL’s regular season schedule might be adding another game, potentially by reducing the preseason. According to the Washington Post’s Mark Maske, the NFL and NFL Players Association have made “meaningful progress” toward a new labor agreement, “raising hopes” that a new deal could be agreed to by early next year. It is “increasingly likely,” according to the Post, that that deal would include a 17-game regular season schedule.

The 10-year CBA agreement between the league and the union runs through the 2020 season and the two parties have been negotiating to try and avoid a work stoppage.

While owners initially explored pushing an 18-game season, the Post notes that owners are turning their focus to a 17-game season, a predicament that the owners believe the players would be more likely to agree too.

The union has consistently expressed public opposition to an increased regular season, but the Post is reporting that owners have indicated a “willingness to make concessions” to get the Players Association to extend the season.

A 17-game season would possibly be accompanied by fewer preseason games and could also lead to an expanded postseason field.

Clark Hunt, chairman of the Kansas City Chiefs, said Wednesday that reducing the preseason is something “everybody would be in favor of.”

"If you replaced a game, perhaps two, with one regular-season game it would give you an odd number of games with 17," Hunt said. "One thought is you could play at least some of those games at a neutral site and obviously internationally would be one way to do that.”

[_Rexy_]

17 is a ****** number.

[ShoulderRoll]

The NFL was perfectly fine as is. Then Roger Goodell came along and all these changes start happening under his tenure, ruining tradition.

I hate him so much.

[Curtis Harper]

Make it an even 25

[JimRaynor]

16 is perfectly fine, this sport takes a heavy toll on the players no need to put them in even further risk.

[Zaroku]

The NFL was perfectly fine as is. Then Roger Goodell came along and all these changes start happening under his tenure, ruining tradition.

I hate him so much.

now single season passing, rushing, etc will all be skewed by the extra game and records could be broken.

[GhostofDempsey]

This is all about revenue. Add another game, get more sponsor and television money, more ticket sales, concessions, merchandise, etc.

[AllBoxingAD]

This is so dumb.

Literally not a single patron is asking for a 17th game.

[Mooshashi]

This is all about revenue. Add another game, get more sponsor and television money, more ticket sales, concessions, merchandise, etc.

That's quite an anti-capitalist set of statements. Elizabeth Warren couldn't have said it better.

I'm surprised the baseball owners aren't trying to make the game year round. More revenue, don't you know.

[GhostofDempsey]

That's quite an anti-capitalist set of statements. Elizabeth Warren couldn't have said it better.

I'm surprised the baseball owners aren't trying to make the game year round. More revenue, don't you know.

I didn't say I was against. I'm just saying it's not in any way to enhance the game. They don't earn as much for pre-season games, so it makes sense to have less pre-season and more regular season games. They are also trying to expand their brand overseas and bring more games over there. The problem with the NFL is their ever-expanding rule book that rivals the U.S. tax code. Officials are too big a part of the game, too many commercial time-outs, overpaid players with diva complex, and the cost to go to a game is outrageous. Lots of empty seats in these tax-payer funded colossal stadiums.