Did not hear it, I was just throwing it out as a possibility. The NFL has been trying to push its product outside of US, hence my comment.
They can choose to add a game between 2021 and 2023. If they don't by 2024 they can't do it under the new cba. Hence 3 year gap.
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...prove-cba-impact-on-league-in-2020-and-beyond 2) So, 17 games? Well, not quite yet. The 2020 season will look familiar -- four preseason games, 16 regular-season games -- with one very new feature: The league will add a wild-card team to each conference, meaning there will be two extra games on Wild Card Weekend. And only the top seed in each conference will get a first-round bye. The second seed will play the No. 7 seed in the first round and so on. The league has a window to add the 17th regular-season game beginning in 2021 and ending in 2023 -- and 2022 seems to be the most logical time, because all of the new broadcast contracts will be in place by then.
Yeah, and that's why the regular season in those leagues hardly mean shit...... greed watering down the product will eventually be the NFL's downfall
Sorry, I was mistaken. I was mixing two different things. The players getting a higher share of league revenue begins in 2021. The 17th game indeed has a window between 2021 and 2023, with 2022 probably being the earliest date according to the articles on NFL.com and ESPN.com.
I was going to pose the same question. I'm betting it will be an international game rotating teams each year.
Why? Each team has an extra game (32) which means 16 extra contests. Basically one extra contest per week during the season. Just play the 16 extra games in Europe. Each team goes to Europe (or Mexico City) once per season. If the NFL is really serious about expanding the league into Europe, this makes perfect sence. Each team plays 1/game per season in Europe, and no one loses a home game over it.
I don't think there could be an extra game each week since you can only have a max of 16 games. That's why there would be an entire extra week of games. But as I now think about it, there probably could be a way to have the 16 European games, if that's what they are going to do, spread over an 18 week season.
Real easy - one ex-USA game for weeks 2-17. That way every team is stateside the first and last game.
I agree. This is probably why the NFL only went after ONE extra game, and not two. Getting 2 xtra would have divided out perfectly IF they were all played here. Getting just ONE xtra game screams EUROPE!
