New Lombardi Trophy.
Posted on 03/31/2020 1:15:02 PM PDT by EdnaMode
The NFL’s owners have voted to expand the playoffs to include 14 teams and will add postseason games on Nickelodeon and NBCUniversal’s new streamer Peacock.
The changes — which had been agreed to in the league’s latest collective-bargaining pact with players — will take effect for the coming 2020 season, NFL Network insider Ian Rapaport said per sources. The moves were approved today during a conference call among owners that replaced the league’s annual meeting that was canceled amid the coronavirus crisis.
AFC and NFC Wild Card games now will feature each conference’s 2-seed hosting the 7-seed, the 3 hosting the 6 and the 4 hosting the 5. NBC and CBS are set to air the additional wild card games, the league said on its website. Only the No. 1 seeds in the NFC and AFC will receive a first-round bye now. The No. 2 seeds in each conference had earned that bye.
With the NFL’s 2020 schedule not affected by the coronavirus as yet, its Wild Card Weekend is set to include three games on Saturday, January 9, and three the following day. In addition to CBS’ January 9 broadcast — which also will be livestreamed on CBS All Access — the league said a separately produced telecast of the game tailored for a younger audience will air on kid-focused cable net Nickelodeon.
NBC’s wild card game on Sunday, January 10, will air on Telemundo and stream on Peacock, the league said.
The NFL playoffs had been limited to 12 of the league’s 32 teams.
Nick announces their announcer crew Square Pants Bob and Susie Smurf.
Oh, just let every 7-9 team in now FFS.
Youngsters looking for SpongeBob will not be pleased.
Hey, why not just cut the season shorter, and go to a double elimination tournament with all teams eligible?
“Youngsters looking for SpongeBob will not be pleased.”
But they’ll like the Cleveland Browns, because Jimmy and Dee Haslam will make sure the Browns don’t preempt Nick programming.
Playoffs?! The only way the Browns make it is if they let everyone in.
New Lombardi Trophy.
Why not start the playoffs with the Sweet Sixteen?
Eventually they are going to have the entire league in playoffs, so how about starting that right away?
The Bengals will be invited to Hallmark Channel’s Kitten Bowl where they will be two touchdown underdogs, er... undercats.
CTE has made moms too scared to let their kids play football. The NFL has no future in the long term. This is a bid to win kids back. This particular solution will not work. They need to do something better. Sadly for them, they have an idiot in charge that they just re-upped for years and years just to give the finger to people who were mad at kneelers so they get what they get.
2020 season is dead anyhow.
Now the NFC East champ will get in at 5-11
Pro football is a joke now, and has been for quite a while
It may be a joke, but everybody involved is laughing all the way to the bank.
Yep I wonder, at what point do you water down the qualification for the playoffs so much , so that every team at 8-8 or even 7-9 make the playoffs?
Baseball may be expanding their playoffs too.
Eventually all major sports leagues will be like the NBA and NHL, where a majority of the teams make the playoffs, and the playoffs last for two months.
You’re right about the money. We’ll see how the extended playoff works. Hopefully it isn’t like the NHL’s second season
Detroit Lions fans be like, “So you’re telling me there’s a chance?”
Great, another March Madness.
Wonder why the PA went along with this - aren’t enough of them getting crippled every year?
So, what are the players getting?
For starters, more money, in the form of a higher share of league revenue beginning in 2021. This year, players will get 47% of all league revenue, in keeping with their number from the current CBA. The expansion of the postseason by two teams will generate an estimated $150 million, according to the NFLPA memo, and 47% of that is $70.5 million. So that will be additional revenue going to the players that they wouldn’t have received without the playoff expansion.
Starting in 2021, the players will get at least 48% of all league revenue, and that figure could get higher depending on how the league does in negotiating new TV deals. Once the league moves to a 17-game season, the players’ share of revenue includes a “media kicker,” which constitutes an additional share of revenue based on the size of the TV contracts. According to the NFLPA memo, if the league’s TV revenues increase by 60%, the players’ share of revenue increases to 48.5%. That share can climb as high as 48.8% if the league’s TV revenues increase by 120% or more, and it cannot be reduced via “stadium credits” — meaning that any money the owners take off the top of the revenue pile for stadium construction and renovation cannot push the players’ share of revenue below 48% (or whatever the media kicker brings it to) during the life of the deal.
The new deal also will give the players 70% of incremental revenue from the league’s Los Angeles Stadium project, meaning 70% of any revenue that exceeds projections in any given year. And they will get a share of revenues from legal gambling operations conducted in stadiums, whether that gambling is on NFL football or other sports.
Which players will benefit the most from the new system?
It seems the lower-earning players — roughly 60% of NFL players operate on minimum-salary deals — will get the most significant bumps in pay, at least right at the beginning. Minimum salaries are increasing by around 20% immediately. A player with less than one year of NFL experience is set to earn $510,000 this year under the current deal. That number rises to $610,000 in 2020 if the new deal is signed, and the minimum salary for players with less than one year of experience rises incrementally throughout the deal, reaching $1.065 million in 2030.
Lame. Make it 16 teams.
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