But wouldn’t that push the Super Bowl back to almost the end of February?
Now, in my opinion, if the NFL is going to have its employees play two more regular season games, it’s only fair that it also gives them extra rest in the form of a second bye week. The third week in August is traditionally when the third set of preseason games are played since there will only be two of those moving forward, the second week of exhibition action would take place in the middle of the month-just like it does now this year, that would occur between Thursday, August 15 and Saturday, August 17 (this is just a guess, but teams would likely continue to play their final preseason games on Thursday night so as to have as much time as possible to make the final cuts and get ready for Week 1). If you hypothetically go by the 2019 calendar, the real games would start the night of Thursday, August 22, when the Bears kick off the regular season against the Packers. But if you decide to go ahead and do that, when does the real season start? If you’re going to add two more regular season games, you’re likely going to have to eliminate two preseason games. Therefore, I’m sure we’ll all quickly grow used to the realities of an 18-game regular season.īut how would the league go about this change and do so without upsetting the apple cart too, too much? In other words, human beings have a way of adapting and moving forward-even sports fans. However, today, all three are fine venues to catch Pittsburgh’s three major sports teams, and most people don’t seem to remember how angry they used to be. I realize this isn’t necessarily the most popular topic, but the conceptions of Heinz Field, PNC Park and PPG Paints Arena were extremely unpopular in some circles many years ago. As I wrote last week, an 18-game NFL regular season schedule seems fairly inevitable and something that could become a reality within the next half-decade or so.
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