In the course of the NFL’s Spring League Assembly in Could, Commissioner Roger Goodell stated that transferring to an 18-game schedule was a part of the league’s “long-range plans.”
When that shift will occur is unclear, and it will not be the final time video games are added to the common season.
Throughout a current interview with 93.7 The Fan, Professional Soccer Discuss’s Mike Florio disclosed he believes the NFL will in the end maximize its incomes potential by increasing the variety of common season video games past 18.
“Ultimately, they’re going to have 20 video games,” Florio said. “I don’t know if I’ll reside lengthy sufficient to get to twenty, however I believe finally, there’s going to be no preseason and 20 [regular season games]. After they have threats to their income, let’s simply give extra as a result of we will make extra if we give extra.”
Florio’s remarks had been in response to a query he was requested concerning the pending “Sunday Ticket” litigation that may doubtless value the NFL billions.
A U.S. District Courtroom jury ordered the league had violated antitrust legal guidelines with its “Sunday Ticket” streaming bundle, and the NFL is on the hook for greater than $4.7 billion in damages, per the Related Press.
And since the ruling offers with federal antitrust legal guidelines, these damages will be tripled, which might value the NFL $14.1 billion, which just about equates to at least one 12 months of the league’s annual income ($19 billion.)
One of many quickest methods for the league’s 32 house owners to make again the greater than $440M payment every staff must pay out within the “Sunday Ticket” case could be to remove the preseason, the place tickets costs common out to roughly $45 per ticket, and tack these video games onto the common season, the place ticket costs value $350 on common.
Per the Collective Bargaining Settlement, the NFL can’t go over a 20-game schedule between the preseason and common season, excluding the playoffs.