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| 28th August, 2008 - 11:34 am | Washington Post - Among NFL leaders the sentiment is to reduce the preseason to two or three games per team and lengthen the regular season to 17 or 18 games, up from the current 16, is growing, and it seems generally accepted that such an adjustment likely will be made within the next few years.
"I think it would be a positive," New England Patriots' owner Robert Kraft said this week, "and I do think it will happen."
More regular season games would mean more revenue in television rights fees, which are worth about $3.7 billion per season in the current deals with NBC, Fox, CBS, ESPN, and DirecTV.
"The players' views can be really simple: If I get paid for two extra games, I'll play two more games," former San Francisco 49ers' offensive lineman Randy Cross said. "The fans' view is: More of the real stuff is better. The realistic view is: It's a way to generate more revenues." [READ] |
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