NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell spoke about the potential of an 18-game common season forward of Tremendous Bowl LIX throughout a press convention on Monday.
Goodell stated that there’s “numerous work to be completed” earlier than increasing the season to 18 video games and stated he has not had any formal discussions with the gamers’ union about including a sport.
The commissioner did say that he has had casual discussions with NFL Gamers Affiliation Govt Director Lloyd Howell Jr. about making the soar to 18 video games.
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NFL commissioner Roger Goodell speaks throughout a press convention forward of Tremendous Bowl LIX on the Caesars Superdome. (Kirby Lee-Imagn Photographs)
“If we do (increase), 18 (common season video games) and two (preseason video games) may be a risk,” Goodell stated.
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NFL commissioner Roger Goodell poses with the Vince Lombardi trophy and Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas Metropolis Chiefs helmets at a press convention forward of Tremendous Bowl LIX on the Caesars Superdome. (Kirby Lee-Imagn Photographs)
“We all know followers love soccer, and so they need extra soccer, however we’ve got to be extremely delicate and good with the steadiness and the way we take care of that.”
Goodell stated the modifications the league has made to scale back concussions and different accidents have made including one other sport extra possible. He spoke in April on “The Pat McAfee Present” about his want to increase the NFL common season to 18 video games, as a substitute of the 17 sport season proper now.
The NFL made the soar to 17 video games previous to the 2021 season, once they went from taking part in 16 common season video games and 4 preseason video games to 17 common season video games and three preseason video games.
Ought to the NFL determine to increase the common season, the Tremendous Bowl would then be pushed again to Presidents’ Day weekend.
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Pushing the Tremendous Bowl again to the vacation weekend would permit followers to not have to fret about work or college the subsequent day, permitting them to completely benefit from the huge sport.
On this 12 months’s Tremendous Bowl, the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs will tackle the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, Feb. 9 at 6:30 p.m. ET on FOX.
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