The NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell spoke about the possibility of a regular season of 18 games before the Super Bowl Lix during a press conference on Monday.
Goodell said there is “a lot of work to do” before expanding the season to 18 games and said it has not had any formal discussion with the union of the players to add a game.
The commissioner said he has had informal discussions with the executive director of the NFL players association, Lloyd Howell Jr., about the jump to 18 games.
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The NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell speaks during a press conference before Super Bowl Lix at Caesars Superdome. (Kirby Lee-Imagn images)
“If we do (we expand), 18 (regular seasonal games) and two (preseason games) could be a possibility,” said Goodell.
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The NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell poses with the Vince Lombardi trophy and the Kansas City Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs at a press conference before Super Bowl Lix in Caesars Superdome. (Kirby Lee-Imagn images)
“We know that fans worship football, and they want more football, but we have to be incredibly sensitive and intelligent with balance and how we deal with that.”
Goodell said that the changes that the League has made to reduce brain shocks and other injuries have made adding another game more feasible. He spoke in April in “The Pat Mcafee Show” about his desire to extend the regular NFL season to 18 games, instead of the 17 games season at this time.
The NFL made the leap to 17 games before the 2021 season, when they went from playing 16 regular seasonal games and four pre -season games to 17 regular seasonal games and three preseason games.
If the NFL decides to expand the regular season, the Super Bowl would be pushed back at the weekend of the presidents day.
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Pushing the Super Bowl back to the holiday weekend would allow fans not to have to worry about work or school the next day, which allowed them to completely enjoy the great game.
In this year’s Super Bowl, the Kansas City Chiefs will face the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, February 9 at 6:30 pm et in Fox.
Fox Super Bowl coverage begins at 1 PM et. Coverage can also be broadcast live in Tubi for the first time.
