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Article on how to improve the NFL: 17 games/weekly game in London and L.A.
Posted on 3/25/14 at 9:00 am
Posted on 3/25/14 at 9:00 am
For your consideration. I don't know how I feel about it yet.
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Step 2: Reduce the preseason by two games. Each team would play once at home and once on the road. That’s one less bogus football game each team would force its season ticket-holders to buy. NFL preseason football is the biggest sham in sports.
Step 3: Add one more regular-season game, creating a 17-game schedule for each team. Again, one more regular-season game and one less preseason game should increase the TV money. Football fans want to watch the sport in December, not August.
Step 4: The 17th game for each team would be neither a home nor a road contest. It would be a neutral-field affair. Sixteen of the teams would play that game in London, the other 16 in Los Angeles.
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Start by dividing the 32 teams geographically. Atlanta, Baltimore, Buffalo, Carolina, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, Jacksonville, Miami, New England, the New York Giants and Jets, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Tampa Bay and Washington would comprise the East. They would play their neutral-field game in London. Arizona, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Green Bay, Houston, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Minnesota, New Orleans, Oakland, St. Louis, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle and Tennessee would comprise the West. They would play their neutral-field game in Los Angeles. That would give London and Los Angeles eight games apiece — allowing those cities to sell attractive season-ticket packages with a mixture of AFC and NFC teams for the complete NFL experience. That would solve the league’s problem of the nation’s second-largest city not having a team and also give the NFL that foothold in Europe it has been so desperately seeking — without having to expand to either city.
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Posted on 3/25/14 at 9:02 am to lsutigers1992
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Football fans want to watch the sport in December, not August.
Not true, they will watch football whenever it's on.
This post was edited on 3/25/14 at 9:03 am
Posted on 3/25/14 at 9:03 am to lsutigers1992
Paul Tagliabue is rolling in his grave.
Posted on 3/25/14 at 9:03 am to lsutigers1992
I don't hate it...
Posted on 3/25/14 at 9:04 am to lsutigers1992
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Sixteen of the teams would play that game in London, the other 16 in Los Angeles.
frick London and LA
Posted on 3/25/14 at 9:04 am to lsutigers1992
I really ragehate the games in London. I can't stand the MLB games in Australia. It's just dumb. My hatred is probably irrational, but so is most of my hatred for things.
Posted on 3/25/14 at 9:06 am to lsutigers1992
that sounds awful
Posted on 3/25/14 at 9:08 am to lsutigers1992
Taking home games away and putting them in LA is ridiculous 
ETA craigbiggio
ETA
craigbiggioThis post was edited on 3/25/14 at 9:14 am
Posted on 3/25/14 at 9:12 am to lsutigers1992
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Step 4: The 17th game for each team would be neither a home nor a road contest. It would be a neutral-field affair. Sixteen of the teams would play that game in London, the other 16 in Los Angeles.
And yes, just what we need. Even less time to figure out who is worth being a backup.
Do people not realize the less preseason you have the sloppier the beginning of the year will be?
Posted on 3/25/14 at 9:13 am to craigbiggio
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Taking home games away and putting them in LA is ridiculous
Did you read it?
Posted on 3/25/14 at 9:14 am to Tigersfan
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Did you read it?
Nope!
I still don't like the neutral site games, but at least with this teams aren't losing a home game like they are now if they have to go to London.
This post was edited on 3/25/14 at 9:16 am
Posted on 3/25/14 at 9:19 am to craigbiggio
Buffalo has to play in Toronto again this year 
Posted on 3/25/14 at 9:21 am to tzimme4
I thought they cancelled that? Or they won't have to do it again after this year?
I never got to see Ladanian Tomlinson in person because the Chargers one trip to the Superdome in 8 years was moved to London
I never got to see Ladanian Tomlinson in person because the Chargers one trip to the Superdome in 8 years was moved to London
This post was edited on 3/25/14 at 9:22 am
Posted on 3/25/14 at 9:27 am to craigbiggio
How would they figure out who gets which opponent in the extra game? I hope it won't be like the SEC. AKA--the Saints draw an extra game with the Seahawks and the Falcons get to play the Texans.
Posted on 3/25/14 at 9:33 am to lsutigers1992
Only step that bothers me is the 4th step.
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