Roger Goodell Says NFL May Expand Playoff Schedule to Mondays and Fridays

January 21, 2014   ·   Matt Fitzgerald   ·   Jump to comments

With the National Football League considering the possibility of adding an additional wild-card team to each conference for the playoffs, there has to be a way to squeeze in two more games for the first weekend of the postseason.
According to league commissioner Roger Goodell, the solution may be to restructure the playoff schedule as fans and franchises have come to know it, expanding it to include Fridays and Mondays.
Sports Illustrated's Brett LoGiurato reported on Monday, Jan. 20, that Goodell discussed the possibility on NFL Network, but that the radical change likely wouldn't take place until 2015 at the earliest:
The big discussion would be the first weekend, the wild card weekend of the playoffs, how would you structure that? Three on Saturday, three on Sunday? We’re looking at every alternative. ... Could you play a game on Friday night, two on Saturday, two on Sunday and another on Monday? You want to balance all that with the competitive issues that come...

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