NFL 2019 Season: It's Tricky!

Have to agree the travel just wouldn't be fair for a London team, nor their opponents each year. NHL for awhile was trying to sell league to Europe with thoughts of expanding to a whole division of teams in Europe, but the travel would just be too brutal overall.

Not sure if this goes here or college football thread...Drew is the man.

That was a really good speech. Like something you'd see in an inspirational sports film.

Sadre Spinegnawer said:

What about jettisoning the preseason, give every team an extra bye, and make sure a London team gets a "US Tour" with a bye at each end? US teams can arrange those extra byes likewise if they are going to London.

Wembley, man, Wembley. That is where stuff happens UK wise.

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That would definitely have to be the framework to make it anywhere near okay. I know with the NHL they were figuring on doing a massively unbalanced division schedule so those teams mostly just traveled around Europe for long stretches then would do extended road trips to the US where they'd play the majority of their US road schedule in one go.

I know Wembley has the magic, but with travel times how they are still, I just think it's going to have a large effect still no matter how much they try to make it fair.

Ameraves said:

On top of all of the above, they would need to get rid of Thursday night games.

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That's something I know vast majority of players would prefer

Well, they might be okay with Thanksgiving games

Or at least line it up so that teams playing Thursday games have their bye the previous week. That fast turnaround is dumb as fuck.

Merrith said:

That's something I know vast majority of players would prefer

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Probably a lot of fans, too, but then the NFL would be losing out on their $650mm+ per year deal and can't have that.

2 game pre-season. 18 game regular season. Add a second bye week. Thursday games are always played around a bye. So twice a year you get 10 days rest, game, and then another 10 days rest. Extra 2 games are second games against strength of schedule matchups in same conference.

Fuck it mine as well go 20 reg season games, just throw pre season in the trash!

I guess in the end I am a purest. I don’t mind pre season getting cut in half. But all the records we have are based on 16 games.

I guess if it goes to something like 18 games we will just have a second set of records.

Hosix said:

But all the records we have are based on 16 games.

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Except for the records from the 14 game era.