Fast Forward

That is enough! Many fans forget that these guys are PROFESSIONALS. The pre-season should be over tonight after all the teams competed in 2 pre-season contests. There are numerous players across the entire league, veterans and rookies alike, that are banged up from practice since late July and participation in 2 pre-season games. The NFL Channel did a special report on how many players are injured just after 2 exhibition games. The scenario should be as such, exhibition season is over, give the players a few days off to rest there bones while the coaching staff and scouts evaluate their own players on who should be on the active roster and who should be on the practice squad, and allow the colleges to have center stage for one weekend. Take the next weekend off from playing(college football begins) and then get into the regular season which entails an 18 game stint with 2 equally distributed bye weeks for each team. So if the regular season goes into mid-January and the playoffs carry the NFL into early February, Who Cares! Then the Super Bowl will occur in mid to Late February or even into early March. The American people have a love affair with professional football. The NFL has carried over to an international basis. If all the logistics can be worked out with the owners, NFLPA, and the networks, then the owners should press forward with an 18 game schedule. Back when the schedule went from 14 to 16, many experts thought it would not work and the season would be too long. It worked out and so will an 18 game season.