I have thought of this for a while and I'd like to hear insight into it. American Football has truly become America's sport. There is more sports watched on television in the seventeen weeks of the NFL season than there is during the 82-game seasons of the NBA and the NHL as well as the 162-game season that MLB has.
I don't believe in having 82 games a year, but I believe that a 20-game schedule played over 22 weeks would bring more attention (as well as $$$) to the NFL, and also appease those of us who wish there was more football.
2007-08-14 04:40:15 · 9 answers · asked by graffiti62 3 in Sports ➔ Football (American)
as much as i would love to have more games, it is way too hard on the players, they get beatings week in and week out and for playoff teams it would be way too long, i am a big football fan and i would love to have more games but it is just too hard on the players
2007-08-14 06:01:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO. You know the problem with the 16 game schedule? INJURIES. They would probably have to get more games cleared by the NFLPA, and good luck if you want to bump it up that much. You know how bad things would get toward the end. We'd have most of the second string starting at some point. If the game wasn't supposed to be hard the starters would sit quicker, just so they would be fresher since they have such a long season. Part of the REASON that the NFL is so watched is that the season seems so short. Make it longer and it starts to lose some of what the product is. No one cares about MLB until after the All-Star break because it means nothing early on. Make the NFL 20 games and doesn't really start to mean a lot until about game 4 or 5. Even now you can lose the first 2 and aren't that far out.
2007-08-14 05:40:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The NFL should cut two of the preason games and add one more week of Playoffs, and give all the teams one more bye week. This extra week could play as a play in game for some of these current 8-8 and 9-7, and even 10-6 in case of the '03 dolphins.
2007-08-14 05:42:40 · answer #3 · answered by Mac 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please, don't give them any ideas. I remember when it was 12 weeks, then 14. I think the season is long enough now. Don't want them to start in September and end in February.
Also, I wonder how many players would still be standing at the end. Maybe just those 3rd and 4th stringers.
I love football, but enough is enough. It already interferes with the end of the baseball season and the beginning of the NASCAR season.
2007-08-14 04:52:50 · answer #4 · answered by ghouly05 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no 16 games is long enough for football
also in the NHL there are technically more than 82 games there are 6 preseason games and upto 28 playoff games so add that up its it could be up to 116 games
2007-08-14 06:00:28 · answer #5 · answered by rac531 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No way. None of those other sports beat you up as much as football does.
What they need to do is stop pretending the pre-season games are meaningful in any way. They're just exhibitions with a bunch of guys who will be tending bar in a month anyway.
2007-08-14 04:59:24 · answer #6 · answered by Rob B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO...It's hard enough to not lose your QB for 1/4 of the season as it is and the linemen take an incredible physical beating...Running backs already have a miniscule life expectancy in the league...we don't need more games...
2007-08-14 04:47:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well you should have read the story about next year, they plan to add extra game becuase the NFL is going to start having an extra game over seas, also they have one game in Mexico City already, but talks are under way to add an extra game.
I don't think they will ever have as many games as MLB!
2007-08-14 04:48:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
it would also destroy all of the players' bodies.
the Super Bowl champ would end up being whoever could keep from getting beat the hell up
nobody would be able to play more than 6 years in the league, so the turnover rate would be huge
and we'd be watching second rate talent
when you think about it logically, 20 games is asinine.
2007-08-14 04:47:30 · answer #9 · answered by retired 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋