You’re dead on accurate. The average attention span is 3.5 minutes. The league is counting on due hards to watch the game and everyone else to use social media. So they’re cool with watering down the league by extending the season because that will give them a couple extra weeks to allow podcasters, influencers, and talking heads to provide the 3.5 minutes that appease attention spans of the casual fan.
When teams play 3 games in 11 days they obvious have no care for injuries. They care about ratings.
I'm sure they wouldn't die after 30 games either. But is it necessary? Adding games and playoffs teams at this point is about one thing, extra money. Not what's better for the game. As a fan I am only concerned about what is better for the game. I realize the owners have a different opinion. That doesn't mean I support their opinion.
More football for me is better for the game. And yes, there is no clue that money is the driving force. They dont have to be mutually exclusive.
Thanksgiving Day games are probably huge cash cows for the league. I don't see them canceling.
More football is better for you, not necessarily better for the game. Adding playoff teams and more regular season games is for money, and no other reason. Mainly because they aren't necessary.
well a 12 game regular season would work also.
I know. But we can all come to a reasonable conclusion, can we not? There is a point in almost everything that there is excess. We can argue how many games is too many. But at some point there are too many. League's make money off of playoffs and games. Does MLB need 162 games? Of course not. Every league packs as many games as possible to make money.
