Ugh. Either fire Goodell, or just put the NFL out of it’s misery.
Oh goody. I can’t wait for the next Superbowl halftime show where I and America can be insulted again.
The Owners let the players be anti-American, cop-killing thugs because it keeps them from having to treat them like decent human beings.
They also talking about going to 17 games.
Pretty soon the Superbowl will be on the same day as the March Madness Final. The XFL season will overlap the NFL.
The NFL should adopt a 162 game schedule like MLB.
That would increase the size of the players’ union.
Waiting for the addition of another bye week with 17 regular season games, stretching the season an additional week.
Why don’t they just have Oprah hand out participation trophies to every team at the end of the season.
Don’t care for just one team getting a bye. It really should be 3. win the division get a bye except there always seems to be one division without a good team. The NFC east this year for example. They get to play. Saints got screwed with 14 wins and playing on wildcard weekend.
Now they have four games, two on Sat. and two on Sunday, while four teams get a bye. The next week, four more games with winners from week I and bye teams. A week later, the four remaining teams play to produce one champion from each league, which then play in the "Super Bowl" for all the marbles.
If they expand, then six teams contend in the first round, while one team in each league gets a bye. Somehow they have to squeeze six games into one weekend - not impossible, I suppose. On the next weekend, 8 teams play (the six winners from the week before plus the two 'bye' teams. Who do the 'bye' teams play, out of the six 'winning' teams? The lowest ranked, or the highest? After week 2, schedule is the same as it is now.
It's all about revenue, I suppose - much higher fees for advertising during post-season. This way they can add two games without stretching it out another week.
Whatever happened to Tom Brady, QB for the New England Patriots?
the proliferation of sports gambling in different states is helping to drive this increase in games...
I propose that, instead of representing cities, each team should represent a prison.
Godell has destroyed the NFL. No one has a problem with the playoff system as it stands.
Seventeen games seems like too many to me, but it’s less than the NBA’s 364 I guess.
- 18 game regular season
- Mid-season bye for ALL teams after 9th game (Great opportunity for the NFL to do a military appreciation week)
- Keep the 12 team playoff format, give ALL teams a playoff bye
- Eliminate the week off before the SB
- Eliminate the Pro Bowl, just pick the teams and have them do a photo-op at the NFL Awards
- Hold a championship round of the best players from each division and have the divisions battle each other for a $100 million dollar prize.
As long as they allow the anti-American kneelers, I will continue to find other things to do during their games.
Or all 3 division winners could get byes.