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Should NFL Re-Think Schedule, Other Optics Of Preseason?

Preseason games are marketed as big events, sometimes playing off teams' recent historygetty images

The NFL preseason is at its halfway point, but it is not just its length that "should bother" fans, rather the fact that it is "practice games masquerading as real games," according to Steve Buckley of the BOSTON HERALD. The NFL "dresses up these practice games with so much makeup, powdered wigs and other frilly things." The league’s "marketing whizzes have a way of adding a dose of drama by playing off recent history, such as selling" last Thursday's Eagles-Patriots game as a "make-pretend Super Bowl rematch" (BOSTON HERALD, 8/19). In Dallas, Kevin Sherrington asks if college football teams can "make do without a preseason, how come pros can't?" The only reason the NFL "still has four preseason games is because they still make money" (DALLASNEWS.com, 8/20). In Nashville, Joe Rexrode wrote the Titans should "refund" their season-ticket holders and others who have paid for the Aug. 30 Vikings-Titans game and "make it free admission for all." The team should also "severely reduce costs for all future preseason games." The Vikings game is the "fourth and final preseason game overall, which is possibly the worst thing in sports." The Titans "should do as much as possible" to grow their fan base, and giving someone who "normally wouldn’t consider coming a free look at some of the best athletes in the world seems like a good way" (Nashville TENNESSEAN, 8/20).

TAKING A DIFFERENT PATH? TITANINSIDER.com's Terry McCormick noted Titans DT Jurrell Casey last season "raised his fist" along with other teammates at the end of the playing of the national anthem, but on Saturday he "offered a salute" at the conclusion of the song. Casey said that it was a "move back to what he had done before anthem protest became an issue in the NFL, and hopes to take a different avenue toward bringing awareness to social injustice causes." Casey said, "We’re working on things to get things moving on the social injustice platform. I’m trying to make sure I use my platform the right way and find different ways we can use this platform in a better way. Not necessarily just as a protest but also helping the community out and trying to find solutions that we can get involved with using the platform.” Casey has been "involved in social causes for sometime now." He and his wife Ryann, an attorney, have been "involved in helping people who have been incarcerated transition back into society after their release from prison" (TITANINSIDER,com, 8/19).

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