ausbacker

Fair enough. Not that I disagree with you but whilst something makes a heap of money executives will always consider it good.

Deus Irae

Sure.... when you scrape off the pretense of the league giving a rat's ass about anything other than the bottom line, and you look at things from the league's point of view, you can easily come to the conclusion that some of those things are good. I just don't buy into "good for the league's wallets = absolute good" as a 100% correlation.

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ausbacker

I'm yet to meet a high powered sporting official/executive who was there "for the betterment of the sport". It's always money and growth as the first priorities. Everything is secondary to that.

Joker

Titans 86 yhear old owner gets fined 250,000 dollars for flipping the bird to abusive fans by Der Fuhrerdell.

Pats lose a first round pick, and fined a million dollars by the corporate Criminaldell.

Fat slob,drunk, blubbering ,making obscene gestures and lewd remarks to young femalefans, the NFL's Wrecks Cryan gets fined 50 K by the Jets...NOTHING by Tammanydell.

Please...in the words of Vincent Caccardia in True Romance.."you're saying nothing but you're telling me everything"

Benito Baddell is just clinging to the hope that his planned criminal masterplan to hijack the Super Bowl and get a Jet/Giant matchup in 2014 stays on course.

Deus Irae

The problem with that sort of thinking by those officials/executives is that short term gains are frequently followed by long term issues. Just ask baseball. While I'm sure that the steroid era is privately viewed as an overall positive by the the league's front office, since the sport was floundering prior to the steroid heyday, the impact of that era is still being felt today, with less fan loyalty (I'm talking loyalty, not attendance) and far more cynicism towards the game.

Football is heading down that very same path.

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Rex Ryan's Gut

Is this even English?

dhamz

Ask any season ticket holder to choose between paying for their 10 games and getting 8 regular season and 2 preseason or the 9-1 split Goddell is proposing and it is probably almost unanimous for the 9-1. That is where his statement comes from.

Now there are probably other options that fans might prefer more (such as not having to pay at all for preseason games or paying reduced rates) but those are not and never will be options since they would reduce revenue and one thing the owners and players agree on is there is no desire to entertain anything that does that.

Triumph

Like changing the Pro Bowl.

The season is long enough. If anything add 2 more playoff teams per conference.

PatsFanSince74

I can't remember TB speaking out like this on any player related issue before.

When you think about it, you realize that he's in a unique position to understand the impact of an 18 game "real" season on players, since he's played in more of them than any QB in the league: 19 regular and 23 total games in 01, 03, 04, 06 and 07; 18 (22) games in 05. P. Manning comes in second with a 20 (24) game season in 06; 19 (23) game seasons in 03 and 09; an 18 (22) game season in 04.

Brady is quite passionate: "Look no further than the players that came before we did. Each player today has to play three years in order to earn five years of postcareer health care."

This doesn't sound like a guy who's going to conduct his own contract negotiations with a lot of warm and fuzzy feelings about management, especially after they throw his blind side protection up in the air.

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spacecrime

I want it and most people I know want it.

The question is simple: do you like to watch football or not?

Some people can take it or leave it. i am disappointed when the regular season ends, and would be happy to see more.

The 'more injuries' in an 18-game season is the dumbest argument in the world. A longer season does not have to mean more games per player. There is no reason why an 18 game season has to mean players play more games.

There are ways to work around this, including a requirement that a player can play in only 16 regular season games. This will require the team to sit him 2 games a year.

All the records tied to a 16-game season remain intact. Players get three weeks off during the year which should actually benefit them more than the one week off they get now with the bye.

It just takes a little thought, that's all.

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