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To: C19fan
Supposedly, the NFL actually considered a proposal to add a 17th game to the schedule but only allow each player to dress for 16 of them. It was dropped from consideration because it would have been a roster management nightmare.

From what I'm hearing, the NFL's real goal here is to extend the season and the playoff long enough to get the Super Bowl played on the Sunday of President's Day weekend.

6 posted on 02/21/2020 4:14:11 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Oh, but it's hard to live by the rules; I never could and still never do.")
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To: Alberta's Child

What would that buy them? Aside from better ad revenue for more games in a sweeps month, maybe?

This has got to mean that the NFL is hurting for revenue, though.


7 posted on 02/21/2020 4:17:26 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Alberta's Child
From what I'm hearing, the NFL's real goal here is to extend the season and the playoff long enough to get the Super Bowl played on the Sunday of President's Day weekend.

Why not push back the beginning of the season?

15 posted on 02/21/2020 6:08:43 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: Alberta's Child
From what I'm hearing, the NFL's real goal here is to extend the season and the playoff long enough to get the Super Bowl played on the Sunday of President's Day weekend.

Which will effectively kill off the XFL and any future attempts to start rival Spring leagues.


35 posted on 02/21/2020 11:52:31 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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