NFL honchos are thinking of in the future looking at playing 17 regular season games:
"NFL commissioner Roger Goodell raised the possibility of having a 17th regular-season game as an option to help settle some of the league's future labor problems...A 17th regular-season game could replace a fourth preseason game and the possibility comes at a time that the league is not satisfied with the quality of the preseason. The league made a presentation to owners about ways to improve the current preseason Tuesday."
My response: what's taken them so long? Improve the "pre-season"? Hurray! When can they start? As the article says, the pre-season has almost become a joke. Everyone's paranoid about injuries; starters play less and less; the pre-season games quickly deteriorate once all the rookies and backups get in; and what I've noticed too is that starters now play so little in the pre-season that, in week 1 of the NFL regular season, their timing still isn't there. The quality of play suffers.
I see Gene Upshaw is being his usual abominable no-man self about this. Let's hope he changes his mind if this idea remains viable.
