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Fuhrer Goodell says the fans want 17 or 18 regular-season games and two or three preseason games. He plans to push this to the owners. If anything, I think they should keep 16 regular-season games and drop one or two preseason games, replacing them with controlled scrimmages. Of course, the owners won't go for that because it would mean less revenue. But, 17 or 18 REGULAR-SEASON games? There's enough injury attrition already. I'm sick of this prima donna tinkering with the game.

SammyBlueCat

You are 100% correct. There are already too many injuries so this is a bad idea.

BradyBranch39

16 and 3 preseason is what I want.

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MoLewisrocks

The problem with an 18 game regular season is it creates a 21 or 22 game playoff season for the best teams in the league. Having watched the toll playing 19 game seasons back to back took on this team...stupid greed driven idea. (As is overseas expansion). I think teams need 4 games in pre season to get veterans back up to game speed (2) and evaluate rookies and youngsters and some veteran FA's (4). I doubt fans would mind if season ticket holders didn't have to buy two of those games. And frankly those of us who have never had season tickets would welcome the opportunity to but pre season tickets at face value...I bet those games would sell out here, anyway.

eternal

The season is already long enough, and the amount of injuries would be magnified even more with a longer regular season.

Eliminate the 1st preseason game, shorten TC by a week, or spread the same amount of practices over the extra weeks time.

spacecrime

I like to watch football. The 16 game season is better than the 14 game season, which was better than the 12 game season.

Why 18? Go to 20. Two bye weeks. No preseason games, only a few scrimmages with other teams, not full games.

They play 20 games now, just change out exhibition for regular season.

The long off-season sucks. Why would anyone not want more football?

Using injuries as a reason for not going to 18 games is thinking inside the box.

Expand your mind. There are better ways to deal with injuries than not playing football.

Expand the roster to 60 players. Expand the practice squad to 15 players. Allow 10 practice squad players who cannot be signed away by other teams. Allow each team two or three tempoarary DL players that can come back onto the team during the season after they heal.

Lots of ways if you open your mind.

If you like to watch football.

Rainy-Day Patriot

I know it's crazy, but I would love to have 18 games, where every team within a conference plays each other every season, and teams within a division play each other twice as they do now. This would rule out interconference play until the Super Bowl, but I would sacrifice that for the great annual rivalries and the increased fairness in schedule strength.

Yeah, I'm crazy, but that's my two cents.

Sean

MoLewisrocks

It's not all about us. It's about the players, too. A 20 game regular season takes a killer toll. A 4 game pre season takes almost no toll where starters are concerned. You can't honestly be equating the effort of 4 pre season games to regular season action. We don't even game plan for them. The coaches are too busy still evaluating performance and testing personnel groupings, assimilating recent acquisitions, and getting 2nd and 3rd stringers some needed reps and fine tuning playbooks for a new season.


I like to watch good football. I also enjoy watching the process through which my team is built to play good football. I don't enjoy watching physically or mentally exhausted or injury descimated teams limp into the post season...makes for a rather disappointing playoff season.

brdmaverick

Well, I'm surprised to find out that I took the most popular position. Even though 16 games and 2/3 preseason games is the most popular pick, it is the most unlikely considering that this actually reduces the TOTAL number of games. If anything the NFL wants to create more meaningful games.

I want to stick with a 16 game season because I think we need remember why the NFL is so great. With only 16 games, every win is huge but not every loss is devastating like in college. The NFL has a perfect balance going. I love football, but 18 games may be too many, and here are my reasons why......

1.) This makes a greater chance that star players get injured before the playoffs.
2.) With more games, it creates a GREATER liklihood that teams will be further separated in the standings come week 19 (which means more meaningless games).
3.) I am a sucker for stats. No matter how many games are in a season, the 1,000 yard plateu remains the same for rushers and receivers. With 18 games, a runner/receiver would only need to average 56 yards to reach the 1,000 yard milestone.
4.) Though only slightly, adding two more games to the schedule diminishes the importance of each game (as compared to a 16 game season).

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Deus Irae

It's all about player safety....... unless the league can find a way to increase profits at the expense of that safety.

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