my fav team in the cowboys, but i also like the packers, jets, steelers(cuz my girl), that seahawks win really has me rooting for them, and the bears and falcons cuz theyre the 2 top seeds in the nfc, but in the end i'll just be a pats fan cause they'll win it all again and i dont want to look like a loser. GO PATS!
WASHINGTON -- Concerns about injuries and insurance make the league's push to switch to an 18-game regular season a major sticking point in negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement, according to two NFL players who are members of the union's executive committee.
The NFL wants to add two games to the current 16-game format for the regular season, and eliminate two of four preseason games, saying fans would prefer that and more revenue could be generated.
"To me, right now, as things stand, 18 games, the way it's being proposed, is completely unacceptable. ... I see more and more players get injured every season," Cleveland Browns linebacker Scott Fujita said Tuesday on a media conference call arranged by the union.
"There are so many things now -- with player health and safety, and the future of us and our families -- that aren't even being considered. And for us, it's disappointing," Fujita said. "It feels like a slap in the face."
Union spokesman George Atallah said Tuesday that 352 active players went on injured reserve at some point during this season, each missing an average of 9½ games.
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said "a few hundred" players out of the nearly 2,600 that go through the system each season -- 80 with each of 32 teams entering camp -- go on injured reserve.
"That number would include undrafted rookies put on IR for the season and players with relatively minor injuries who then reach injury settlements with their teams and are released," Aiello wrote in an e-mail. "We do not know how the union calculated games lost."
they can still take away two boring ass preseason games though
they'll never just take away two preseason games, they make too much money on them. they just want more money, thats why they want to make them regular season games.
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The NFL wants to add two games to the current 16-game format for the regular season, and eliminate two of four preseason games, saying fans would prefer that and more revenue could be generated.
"To me, right now, as things stand, 18 games, the way it's being proposed, is completely unacceptable. ... I see more and more players get injured every season," Cleveland Browns linebacker Scott Fujita said Tuesday on a media conference call arranged by the union.
"There are so many things now -- with player health and safety, and the future of us and our families -- that aren't even being considered. And for us, it's disappointing," Fujita said. "It feels like a slap in the face."
Union spokesman George Atallah said Tuesday that 352 active players went on injured reserve at some point during this season, each missing an average of 9½ games.
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said "a few hundred" players out of the nearly 2,600 that go through the system each season -- 80 with each of 32 teams entering camp -- go on injured reserve.
"That number would include undrafted rookies put on IR for the season and players with relatively minor injuries who then reach injury settlements with their teams and are released," Aiello wrote in an e-mail. "We do not know how the union calculated games lost."