My biggest beef with this is the fight over the 18-game schedule. All this will do is dilute the quality of the remaining games (some team’s 14-2 already and locked in the playoffs, they’re going to rest their starters the last 2 games) and it will make players more susceptible to injuries. I would support the 18-game schedule ONLY if preseason was completely abolished, there is a midseason bye for ALL teams (make that bye week an NFL-sponsored Pop Warner game or something) and have a bye week for all teams going into the playoffs and eliminate the extra week before the Super Bowl. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want football to go into March.
The number of games would not change. As I understand it there would be 2 exhibitions games and 18 regular season games and then the playoffs and the super bowl.
Originally, there were 6 exhibition games and fourteen regular season games and then a league championship. No Super Bowl. Then it was 4 and 16 and playoffs and SB. Now it will be 2 and 18. The American Football League came along in somewhere in there.
Exhibition games are boring because they are just training sessions in dress rehearsal.