NFL Owners Want 18-Game Regular Season in 2012
According to ESPN, a five-hour meeting took place on Wednesday between the owners and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. This is where the discussion took place to extend the NFL regular season, and apparently the NFL has the right to impose an 18-game schedule as it is. They wouldn't even have to cut back on the number of preseason games if they didn't want to, and that would mean a total of 22 games in the 2012 schedule, if that is what the owners ended up voting to do. It seems like overkill for a football season, and a compromise somewhere in the middle would be better than a 23-week season like that would be.
For some reason, NFL owners think that this would be a win-win situation to put more NFL games on the schedule, and they most likely think this way because it would mean more revenue in their pockets. More regular season games mean more tickets getting sold to games and a huge increase in the television revenues that they could make over those additional two weeks of the regular season. It's hard to see how that would help players, though, as they would wear out more quickly during the regular season, and the potential for injuries would just be increased.
An 18-game regular season for the NFL just seems like a bad idea, even if it would mean that there would be two more weeks to the football season each year. Records would certainly be shattered in nearly every statistic, including yards, touchdowns, and just about every other seasonal statistic that you can think of right now. Not to mention it would also create more conflicts with those NFL fans that also watch other sports when football isn't going. That final point is, of course, just a minor one, but it is something that NFL owners need to consider when it comes to the television revenues.
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2 Comments
Post a CommentTo say you dont want more football games is stupid. That's like an acholholic saying I dont want a free beer. Seriously you obviously either watch football and think you know what every play is going to be or you just dont like football. 2 more games isnt going to shattered ALL records. Yes some will be broken but its not like baseball when these records just wash away. I will still know who Emmit Smith, Johhny Unitas, Tom Brady, and so, what they did and who they played for. Dont call yourself and fan.
Reading your article leads me to believe that you are not a big fan of football. Your argument that it would lead to more injuries is ill informed. Anyone who has followed the sport since...well, ever, knows that tons of injuries occur in the meaningless preseason games. Just because it's preseason doesn't mean it's flag football. I'm sure the players would prefer the possibility getting injured in a game that means something in the scope of the season rather than a "practice" session.
Also, since this is the "Business and Finance" section, why would the NFL owners give a second thought to creating a viewing conflict with other sports? Their teams would dominate in the ratings over baseball. That's not their fault, it's baseball's.
Third, the same thing happened to league records when the NFL expanded to a 16 game system. It doesn't diminish the existing records as anyone who's not mentally deficient can average out yards per game, points per game, etc.
This entire article fails