Roger Goodell is looking at expanding the NFL regular season once again.
The NFL commissioner expressed his interest in an 18-game regular season and is pleased with the results from the previous expansion implemented a couple years ago.
In 2021, the league went from 16 regular-season games and four pre-season games to 17 regular-season games and three in the pre-season. Goodell wants to do something similar in a new expansion.
“We would keep within that 20-game framework,” Goodell said Friday, on Bloomberg TV. “We went to 16 and four, and now 17 and three. So 18 and two is a logical step.”
Goodell said NFL Players Association would need to approve the extension of the regular season. The union could object on the basis that more games will mean more injuries, although Goodell said the 17-game season has not increased the number of injuries, thanks to improved training and rules changes.
The NFL played 16-game seasons for 43 years (with two strike-shortened seasons) before expanding to 17 games in 2021.
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