NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said the league is likely to add another game to the NFL regular season but keep within a predetermined framework.
Goodell and league owners are looking to push more aggressively toward adding an 18th regular season game, with reports out of the annual owners meeting that the league would like to add the game before 2029, when the NFL has the ability to opt out of its current broadcasting rights contract.
League executives spoke to Yahoo Sports anonymously and pointed to talks about expanding the schedule at the Florida meetings.
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“Everyone understands consensus-building time is coming for both [the league and NFL Players Association],” an executive said.
The unnamed source said the idea of the expanded schedule will start to “get some momentum in
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