Longer Season.. what does it offer other than more revenue?

[Ruhskins]

I wonder if with a longer season they would increase the size of the rosters. Longer season means players can get banged up as it's been discussed. I wouldn't mind a longer regular season. Now, if they can move the Superbowl to a Saturday night, that'd be great!

[derekc4]

Well the record books will get rewritten completely.

[tryfuhl]

Originally Posted by derekc4

Well the record books will get rewritten completely.

Nice first post, hadn't even been brought up yet.

[SkinzzFan]

Originally Posted by derekc4

Well the record books will get rewritten completely.

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.

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by SkinzzFan

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.

[tryfuhl]

Originally Posted by SkinzzFan

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.

[Daseal]

Could this possibly lead to slightly larger rosters? I could definitely see that. At the end of a 16 game season these players are beat up -- can you imagine two more weeks?

[The Goat]

Yeah I don't get the appeal of overseas games. Keep it in our hemisphere w/ games in Canada and maybe South America.

[tryfuhl]

Originally Posted by The Goat

Yeah I don't get the appeal of overseas games. Keep it in our hemisphere w/ games in Canada and maybe South America.

Maybe Mexico.. I dunno about South America

[WaldSkins]

Originally Posted by tryfuhl

Maybe Mexico.. I dunno about South America

Why go overseas when we could put teams in LA, Vegas, and Portland?

[skinsnut]

Originally Posted by WaldSkins

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]

Originally Posted by skinsnut

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]

Originally Posted by WaldSkins

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

[FRPLG]

I think it makes more sense to me to expand the playoffs. I would imagine those games generate proportionally more oney the in-season games. Maybe go to 17 and expanded playoffs. Then you're only adding one game for everyone and ghe other games are playoff games involving a lot less players.

One also has to understand that this could very well be CBA positioning(most likely). IN collective bargaining you have to give to get. The more the owners lay on the table the more they have to pull back when the time comes. I'd bet we don't see extra games in whatever reincarnation the next CBA is.

[Smooter]

It means I get to play a couple extra games on Madden.