No Roger!

Don’t do it Roger. Don’t agree to it NFL Players Association. DO NOT add two more regular season football games. The NFL season is perfect as it is now. Every year, football fans are left thirsting for more. Don’t give us more! America thrives on urgency. We need things to matter for us to spend our time on it. Nearly every football game matters. They matter for determining the playoffs. They matter for seeding. They matter for home-field advantage. The more games, the less they will matter. Baseball is dying in America because they give us too much. We don’t really follow the NBA until the playoffs start because they have too many games. The same goes for the NCAA basketball season. No one pays attention until the tourney starts. The more games a league has, the less significant each individual game is. Right now the NFL has 15 (with byes) straight weeks of kill or be killed football. The last two weeks of the season already are irrelevant with the true Super Bowl contenders having wrapped up home field advantage while the Lions and teams of that ilk have long before been eliminated from contention. That leaves about 6 teams fighting to be a Wildcard and lose in the second round of the playoffs. When week 15 rolls around, I’m just waiting for the playoffs to start. Most of those who like this proposal point out that it will decrease pre-season games which few are really interested in. If the interest is that low then why are there nationally televised pre-season games? Why do these games crush baseball in the ratings? Have you ever seen a Cactus league baseball game in prime time? What about a preseason NBA game? No you haven’t because their seasons are already to long and interest doesn’t pick up until mid-season of both sports. Interest for NFL games begins immediately after camp opens and I don’t want to lose that excitement. I don’t want a watered down league. So please Roger, don’t toy with my NFL schedule.


As a side note, I believe both the NBA and MLB should shorten their seasons. MLB should be about 120 games - 60 before the All-Star break and 60 after it. The NBA should be 50 games. The lock-out shortened season was my favorite in that each game counted and players were able to give better efforts because they were rested. I know this will never happen but it’s a good idea. I think this would allow for a much greater product.