That means every game will go down to the wire and will be hard-fought.
The last 2 games of the season are meaningless. Get rid of them, get rid of 2 of the preseason games, and have a bye week for all teams halfway into the season. Throw in two extra wild-card berths per conference and give all playoff teams a bye week before the playoffs start. Pefect!!
You Can be the Sports Czar!!!!
For the Colts even in a 14 game season the last 2 games would have been meaningless. They locked up home-field throughout when they hit 12-0. And of course for many teams (7 teams in the AFC) the season came down to the last down, many the last down of somebody else’s game even.
And they want to add 2 games to the current 16 game schedule. Idiot$
You’re ideas make a heck of a lot of sense!!! Forward them to Goodell.
*Here’s the no-brainer solution: Switch back to a 14-game season.*
Uh, yeah, well, the Colts would have tanked game 12 then.
This is all idiotic anyway. If the Commish is worried about money & viewers, how about getting rid of blackout rules and the distribution maps. Allow me to watch whatever game I want wherever I live. For instance, today I had to suffer through Brett F*cking Favre—AGAIN, when I would have rather watched Paint Dry VS. Grass Grow.
14 week season, exactly what I was thinking. All of these records are false since the 16 game season. Jim Brown played a 12 game season, if he would have played 16 he would have nearly 2500 yards rushing record for a season.....It would be as if they increased MLB season from 162 to 216, the NBA season from 82 to 110. All this stretching out of the season waters down the quality of the games, just as too many teams waters down the quality of play.
Good idea. The bye weeks extend the season just as well as games providing not everyone gets the bye at the same time.
Your solution is excellent for the fans but not for the owners. Who do you think will win that battle?
Long ago the NFL became controlled by television, as have all sports. Why? Money! Schedules have been changed, starting times have been changed, etc., all at the request of television in order to get the largest audience possible.
What is the main purpose of the BCS Bowl Series? More bowls, more money. For that matter, what encouraged the expansion of the NFL into more teams? What allowed the formation of the AFL back in 1960?
As to the playing and not playing starters in key games I think it is bad strategy to rest players. A player can get hurt in practice or on the first play of the playoff game so what risk is avoided? Changing the lineup and the emotion of a team going into an important game is not a good strategy. Do you rest all starters or just the key skill players? How does that make the starters who have to play feel? Bad for morale.