4 Changes Roger Goodell Could Make to NFL Preseason

August 8, 2012   ·   Professor Bush   ·   Jump to comments

No one likes the NFL preseason schedule.  
Season-ticket holders are annoyed that they need to pay for the two preseason home games along with the eight regular-season games in their package. Fans are not interested in watching their team play four preseason games. Nobody wants to see a player get injured in a game that doesn't count in the standings. But the owners are not interested in doing anything to reduce their revenues.
There was some hope that improvements might have been made in last year's labor negotiations, but that did not happen.
One approach considered was to expand the regular season to 18 games and reduce the preseason to two games.  However, the injury risk of playing a longer season seemed to win the argument. Even the idea of restricting each player to only appear in 16 of the 18 games didn't help.
Some teams still favor shortening the preseason schedule to two games.  
So what are some things that the commissioner can d...

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