Ruhskins
03-27-2009, 03:45 PM
That was my first thought. Adding games will mess with the record books.
I like having only 16 games. Each game means something. There are no unimportant games on the schedule.
Well unless the NFL is moving to have 80+ or 160 games like you see in Basketball or Baseball, I don't think adding 2 games will make any game unimportant.
WaldSkins
03-27-2009, 05:12 PM
Maybe Mexico.. I dunno about South America
Why go overseas when we could put teams in LA, Vegas, and Portland?
skinsnut
03-27-2009, 05:29 PM
Why go overseas when we could put teams in LA, Vegas, and Portland?
You're kidding right?
You are assuming folks in the West are like yourself.
People in the West do not foam at the mouth for football like they do where you live.
They tried LA several times...yeah, you can do it again....Las Vegas?
That 115 degrees man!
Portland is possible I guess.
Their real push is to get on international television...getting on telemundo or something would be huge...I can see them going into Canada or Mexico City or something...the problem with Mexico is the language barrier...how do you hold press conferences in a different language?...what free agent wants to live in another country?...I dont know.
The most I see them ever doing is having each team play a single game abroad yearly...I really dont see any NFL teams outside of the US...unless its in Canada and thats a big "if"
WaldSkins
03-27-2009, 05:33 PM
You're kidding right?
You are assuming folks in the West are like yourself.
People in the West do not foam at the mouth for football like they do where you live.
They tried LA several times...yeah, you can do it again....Las Vegas?
That 115 degrees man!
Portland is possible I guess.
Their real push is to get on international television...getting on telemundo or something would be huge...I can see them going into Canada or Mexico City or something...the problem with Mexico is the language barrier...how do you hold press conferences in a different language?...what free agent wants to live in another country?...I dont know.
The most I see them ever doing is having each team play a single game abroad yearly...I really dont see any NFL teams outside of the US...unless its in Canada and thats a big "if"
It's called a dome.
tryfuhl
03-28-2009, 08:45 AM
Don't those guys ride in First or business class. I do not know I am just asking. I figured that they did or do.
When you deal with different travel or times, it's difficult to adjust. The pros say that the Monday Night games throw them off a bit. Imagine if you're used to playing at 1 and then play at 8.. or MNF.
We always performed poorly in our primetime games. To the guy that said if people are already on a plane for 3 hours.. what's another 3 to 6? Are you serious? Sitting still for 3 hours, 6 hours, 9 hours.. you get stiff, you're not loose, etc.. I mean I'd imagine they'd head over a few days in advance and run their last practice or two overseas depending where it's at.. but that's a lot of downtime beforehand.
tryfuhl
03-28-2009, 08:48 AM
Now, I could see them adding two games and adding an additional bye week, thus extending the season that much longer. We could get nearly an extra month of NFL in; I could deal with that.
not a bad idea.. as much as I hate bye week we definitely could've used an extra one even last year haha
tryfuhl
03-28-2009, 08:57 AM
That was my first thought. Adding games will mess with the record books.
I like having only 16 games. Each game means something. There are no unimportant games on the schedule.
Still true, every 20-30 years though it seems like the season has been extended though. Was about 30 years ago that we jumped it from 14 to 16, does seem like we hit a sweet spot.
Anybody remember the 78 season and how thoughts were then about adding to the regular season? Or even the bye week inclusion in.. what was it 90? I remember that happening but not what popular opinion was.
tryfuhl
03-28-2009, 08:58 AM
Why go overseas when we could put teams in LA, Vegas, and Portland?
Exactly my argument earlier.. I think that we have more deserving American markets.. but what I was saying in that reply was the chance of if we played a game in another country.. someone mentioned maybe South America
as far as LA, I know that they want that market, but how many times can you try that experiment? Vegas and Portland would probably have to be in domes due to weather. Vegas seems like it would be more of a dome city as it is anyways