NFL Considering Extra Regular-Season Game, Int’l Super Bowl
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Goodell Says League Contemplating
Adding Game To Regular Season
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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell during a meeting with sports editors in N.Y. said
that league officials are “considering adding a 17th regular season game
to accommodate the league’s desire to play overseas games, ... although
the idea is in the formative stages,” according to Maske & Boren of
the WASHINGTON POST. League officials had not discussed the possibility with NFLPA
officials as of Thursday. If the NFL “decides to increase the number of
regular season games it will play in foreign countries beyond the one to two per
year to which owners now are committed, it could decide to add a week to the regular
season ... while subtracting a week from the preseason.” Goodell said adding
a 17th game “would create more inventory, and that has some appeal”
(WASHINGTON POST, 4/27). Goodell also said that the NFL is “looking
into the possibility of playing a Super Bowl outside the [U.S.], although not
before 2012 at the earliest.” He indicated that the “three most likely
spots would be London, Toronto or Mexico City because they are in time zones that
would allow the game to be televised in the [U.S.] at reasonable hours.”
Goodell added that the league’s medical committee “has been working
on a way to implement” mandatory neurological tests, “perhaps as early
as this summer” (AP, 4/26).
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