Mutt

i wish the NFL season were longer, can't stand how long the off season is - the owners want to add 2 more games to make it an 18 game season, more games more TV and stadium revenue. the NFL is like no other sport in the world, it is violent and brutal, Europeans don't understand how brutal it is, they just see a lot of big guys in caged helmets and padding blocking and tackling each other. Concussions, broken bones, torn muscles, torn joints - many players play through bad injuries with the help of drugs. It shortens careers. The point is you can't put these guys through much longer of a season without the players having their careers shortened and their future health and lives put at risk. Already the NFL has a ton of retired players from the 70's and 80's who are suffering from dementia and similar problems, and many dead before their time, though like the WWF/WWE alot of that is from steroids and anti-inflammatory drug overusage. NFL offensive linemen because of their size and other factors literally have a life expectancy into their 50's. The NFL has protected the quarterbacks because they are the superstars and there just aren't many elite quarterbacks in the NFL. The receivers could play a longer season as could players in the defensive secondary but the rest just can't.

So my idea to make the season longer is to add the 2 extra games making an 18 game season and stretching the season longer by adding more bye weeks - it would allow players to heal if each team had 3 bye weeks instead of the 1 they have now, therefore better performance, and money wise the TV networks would cream their pants to have the NFL season last an extra month or 6 weeks. I haven't done the math but you'd have 10-12 games every Sunday instead of 16.

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