With every team's extra game being at a neutral site.

This would be 16 games at neutral sites per year, it could spread NFL popularity a lot, and keep people from bitching about the loss of a home game.

They should start them on week 1 and go all the way through week 16, leaving the decisive last 2 weeks to the home crowds.

Possible neutral cities:
London
Berlin
Mexico City
Tokyo
Toronto
Las Vegas
Portland
Los Angeles (hell they could play 2 or 3 here)
Oklahoma City
Louisville
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Salt Lake City
Vancouver
South Bend, Indiana

[Edited on October 11, 2008 at 4:42 PM. Reason : so I'm no good at spelling mexican]

10/11/2008 4:35:55 PM

Thomasville, NC
Valdosta, GA
Homer, AK

10/11/2008 4:37:40 PM

no

10/11/2008 4:39:05 PM

Quote :

"Las Angeles "

10/11/2008 4:40:59 PM

Havanna, Cuba
Kabul, Afghanistan
Tehran, Iran
Pyongyang, North Korea

10/11/2008 4:41:01 PM

If you played an NFL game at Azteca, a third of the players would die.

10/11/2008 4:43:29 PM

They played one there like 3 years ago.

10/11/2008 4:43:52 PM

why not play in Antarctica? you could just use penguins as referees.

10/11/2008 4:45:23 PM

yeah, pwnt



also



Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Bangalore, India

Islamabad, Pakistan

10/11/2008 4:49:16 PM

^ Bangalore is a viable option

10/11/2008 4:53:39 PM

damn, pwnt so sour

but the fact that i don't watch the nfl is why i make so much money off of it, so i can live with that

10/11/2008 4:55:03 PM

I'm all for reducing the preseason and make the regular season longer.

10/11/2008 5:10:04 PM

Quote :

"^ Bangalore is a viable option"

No its not

10/11/2008 5:16:23 PM

you're right

but plz to never ever list Bangalore next to those other two places

10/11/2008 5:21:05 PM

have one in Dubai, then trap will piss his pants in excitement

10/11/2008 5:38:37 PM

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Mandatory games for all teams at neutral sites is fucking retarded.

10/11/2008 9:04:42 PM

Apparently they are talking about an expanded schedule right now (along with moving the Pro Bowl and some spring football BS).

10/19/2008 12:19:21 PM

i think they should have 17 weeks, with one bye week per team

that would basically be perfect

10/19/2008 2:40:35 PM

almost perfect.

They should replace one of those worthless preseason games with a real game.

Then, perfection.

10/19/2008 2:41:42 PM

32 games...perfection.

10/19/2008 3:49:14 PM

ha, I like how now one has proposed a city in China.

10/19/2008 7:06:30 PM

they just got the fucking olympics.
sydney austrailia though would be cool. or in south africa...

10/19/2008 8:02:54 PM

keep the shit in a watchable time zone

western hemisphere ftw

no farther east than Rome, because it can be a night game there and a 1 pm game here, for those that wish to watch it

10/19/2008 8:04:31 PM

Sidney might work. Australian football is a little bit like American football.

China has enough people that enough people would be interested to go at least, but I don't think they are big on organized sports there (Olympic sports there are like team sports here).
South Africa probably wouldn't happen, that place sucks.

I guess Dubai would work.

[Edited on October 19, 2008 at 8:19 PM. Reason : I have no idea why I had the devil smiley in that post]

10/19/2008 8:07:06 PM

Sydney is ok if they start the game 11 AM locally

that'd put it at about 8 pm here

10/19/2008 8:14:15 PM

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/NFL-looking-to-expand-to-18-regular-season-games?urn=nfl,119065

The NFL would like to do you one better.

11/2/2008 7:46:34 PM

Don't screw with the current set up. It works, the players play enough games as it is, and the idea of expanding teams to europe or wherever is rediculous. Do they not make enough money as it is?

11/3/2008 9:22:42 AM

do you guys have any fucking idea how long it takes to get to china/japan/australia?

11/3/2008 9:40:00 AM

by boat?

11/3/2008 9:43:09 AM

11/3/2008 9:45:08 AM

players are already beat up enough by the playoffs. 16 games is plenty. flying across the globe is 2 days of no practice and screws with your sleep habits. really if they change anything i'd rather see 2 preseason games instead of 4. preseason football just isn't the same.

11/3/2008 9:53:45 AM

i'd rather see 0 games played outside of the US than add a neutral game

11/3/2008 9:59:06 AM

Get rid of 4 preseason games, go to 2 preseason, 18 game schedule.

11/3/2008 11:14:09 AM

^ Agreed, get rid of a preseaon game or two and add a couple mroe to the season instead.

Also international games will suck because A) will be difficult to watch here and B) travel time and adjustment will suck for the players.

If you want international just keep them to this Side of the Hemisphere.

11/3/2008 12:01:26 PM