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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell floated nan thought of extending the NFL season to 18 games, perchance pushing nan Super Bowl to Presidents’ Day weekend.
Goodell floated nan anticipation successful an quality connected "The Pat McAfee Show" connected Thursday.
"I deliberation we're bully astatine 17 now," Goodell said. But, listen, we're looking astatine really we continue. I'm not a instrumentality of nan preseason.… The reality is, I'd alternatively switch a preseason crippled pinch a regular-season crippled immoderate day. That's conscionable picking quality.
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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell addresses nan crowd earlier nan commencement of a Play Football Prospect Clinic pinch Special Olympics athletes, Wednesday, April 24, 2024, successful Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
"If we get to 18 and 2, that's not an unreasonable thing. The different point it does, (Super Bowl Sunday) ends connected up Presidents' Day weekend, which is simply a three-day weekend, which makes it Sunday nighttime and past you person Monday off."
No meaningful steps person been taken to activity to alteration nan 17-game schedule to 18 games. Any alteration to nan schedule would person to beryllium collectively bargained done nan NFL Players Association.
Goodell besides touched connected expanding nan world schedule and streaming.
"I honestly deliberation we’ll beryllium playing 16 games internationally if you spell 10 years out, I deliberation we’ll effort to get to 8 aliases 9 successful nan adjacent mates years," he said.
Southern California backmost Caleb Williams celebrates pinch NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell aft being chosen by nan Chicago Bears pinch nan first wide prime during nan NFL shot draft, Thursday, April 25, 2024, successful Detroit. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
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He said utilizing streaming platforms expands what nan convention tin do successful position of instrumentality relationship and replacement broadcasts.
"As you know, we spell for nan broadest imaginable distribution we can. We want to make our games disposable to nan widest assemblage we perchance can," Goodell added. "But, also, I deliberation nan streaming platforms springiness america much interaction. There are much opportunities to do replacement broadcasts. There’s much relationship for nan fans if they want that interaction."
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell speaks during nan first information of nan NFL shot draft, Thursday, April 25, 2024, successful Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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"So we’ve been incredibly happy pinch our Thursday nighttime package connected Amazon Prime. YouTube had our Sunday Ticket this year. Again, tremendous growth, and I deliberation nan fans really enjoyed it. And successful each of those platforms, our mean property of our assemblage went down 8 to 10 years. So that’s wherever a batch of group are that we request to reach, and that’s why we’re investing successful it."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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