Why or Why not?
2007-05-15 03:26:17 · 22 answers · asked by afroloq 2 in Sports ➔ Football (American)
YES! I freakin love the nfl (atl falcons) and i want to watch as many games as possible. You could even take out 1 preseason game and keep the bye week. I'm of the opinion that the regular season in most sports is too long. 162 games in baseball is ridiculous. 82 games in basketball plus a post season that lasts 2 months is unnecessary. 80 something games in hocky, golf and nascar last pretty much the whole year etc.... My one exception is football. i wouldn't mind seeing up to 20 regular season games, but anything more than that is too much. Plus, If a team was secure in their playoff spot it would give their injured players time to get back into form. The only problem is that a lot of single season records will be broken with an extra game(s)
2007-05-15 03:39:43 · answer #1 · answered by Swayze 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO! The NFL should stick with 16 games. The only scheduling change I would make would be to reduce the preseason to two games. You have all those mini camps, training camps, and offseason drills to do what? To prepare for the regular season. Why do you need four games, which is a quarter of a REGULAR SEASON, to prepare for the real season. NBA's preseason is 7 or 8 games. They play 82 regular season contests. MLB plays between 30-32 preseason games, most of which are shortented games and split squad days. That prepares them for a 162 game schedule. Shorten the NFL preseason. Two games is enough to evaluate talent. Every year one of the NFL's bright stars gets an ACL tear or another season ending injury in what is basically a scrimmage game. If they keep the preseason four games, institute the Pro Bowl rules where you cant blitz, cant rush the kicker and give the QBs red no contact jerseys. Either that or have someone's career ended in a pointless game.
2007-05-15 11:00:11 · answer #2 · answered by Quiet Storm 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. Sixteen games is enough, the season is too long as it is, and the NFL is becoming predictable and boring. They also need to eliminate the bye week. This is a money making ploy, nothing more, nothing less. They are exposing the players to more injury by playing more games, it ill mean excessive travel for what will amount to an overhyped exhibition game, whether it counts in the standings or not.
The best solution is to contract the preseason to two games for each team, one home, and one away. As I mentioned, eliminate the bye week, start the playoffs a week earlier, and finish the season by the end of January.
2007-05-15 11:36:16 · answer #3 · answered by phil5775 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it would be great! No more five hundred seasons, you will either have a winning record or losing! The bye week would not disappear! That is the Player's Association and NFL contract! Why play a pointless fourth preseason, when the real game could be counted!
Football rules!
2007-05-15 10:41:10 · answer #4 · answered by fjerseyman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They should go to 17 or even 18 games...just get rid of the pre-season games. Too many of them, and they don't mean anything. If nothing else, with the teams/NFL as money-hungry, they'd have 2 more "big" games that fans would go to, versus half empty stadiums for preseason games, plus add them to the network packages, etc.
2007-05-15 10:51:46 · answer #5 · answered by icequeen_ah 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes,
getting rid of one preseason game and adding games in Canada and Mexico at a neutral site selcted by the team, say Halifax, Nova Scotia for the Patriots and Tijuana, Monterrey for the Chargers. Some people will bring up the problem of games in Europe or Asia. Who the heck mentioned Euope or Asia. There are closer foreign countries.
2007-05-15 11:01:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they play 17 games why not just take the preseason out to one game and have them play 19 regular season games? Doesn't sound like a bad ideal considering the number of players hurt in the meaningless preseason.
2007-05-15 10:34:00 · answer #7 · answered by Kizle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
As with other pro sports, they've got more than enough games, when you include pre-season, playoffs and the Super Bowl. What makes the NFL great is the fact that every game counts a lot (unlike baseball, basketball, hockey, etc.)
Of course, if your team consistently sucks, then you probably would want more regular-season games...
2007-05-15 10:33:52 · answer #8 · answered by InvisibleHand 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes they should but they should drop to 3 EXHIBITION (NOT PRESEASON) games instead of 4. They would be able to generate much more tv/stadium revenue with an extra game and eliminating the pointless preseason games.
Most 70% of the games is the guy who is not going to make the team or will be practice squad guy. Most teams have a good idea of a players ability from minicamp and training camp.
"Let me put it this way. I went and watched the Chicago Bulls play the New York Knicks in a preseason game about 15 years ago. I didn't see (Scottie) Pippen and (Michael) Jordan," Gruden said. "I saw a lot of Bill Wennington. You know what I mean?
2007-05-15 10:33:32 · answer #9 · answered by Brian D 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
YES, it wouldn't cost a bye week only one less pointless preseason game and who wouldn't want the season to begin one week sooner? The players would have to play the same amount of games anyways and part of the reason for injuries in the preseason is the lack of passion they are played with...just running through the drills often results in sloppy play and carelessness which open up players to injury.
2007-05-15 11:08:15 · answer #10 · answered by cultspyder 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋