NFL owners are pushing hard for a
ten-year collective-bargaining agreement with players that will add one more
game to the regular season and two more playoff teams. Players have yet to sign off on yet more
chances to have their bells rung. I
wonder why.
What I find amazing is that the
owners have already “compromised” on the issue of an expanded season;
initially, they wanted two more games.
In other words, they wanted to increase the length of the regular season
by 12.5 percent. That would be like
tacking on another twenty games to baseball’s 162-game regular season. The players should counter with accepting the
extra two games only if all owners suit up to play in them. Calling Jerry Jones, calling Robert Kraft…
No one is talking yet about how a
new CBA would affect fans. Season-ticket
packages would go up, yes? The owners
are offering to shorten the preseason by a game, but do you think they’ll say
goodbye to that revenue? And how exactly
will an unbalanced schedule work? Will
that extra game be played at a neutral site?
That should be fun with players.
Or will there be teams that play more away than home games? I can just see owners fighting over the gate
receipts.
Hey, the players could sell
tickets so fans could watch.
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