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Goodell mulls 18-game regular-season slate

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is mulling a future with 18 regular-season games, a Presidents Day weekend Super Bowl Sunday and a significant increase in international games.
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Roger Goodell mulls 18-game slate, Presidents Day weekend Super Bowl​

Specifically, Goodell said he would embrace a schedule featuring 18 regular-season games and two preseason contests, a significant shift from the current 17 regular-season and three preseason games that was implemented in 2021.

"I think we're good at 17 now," Goodell said. "But, listen, we're looking at how we continue. I'm not a fan of the preseason." Then, gesturing toward a group of fans assembled nearby, Goodell said, "And I don't think these guys like it either." He continued: "The reality is, I'd rather replace a preseason game with a regular-season game any day. That's just picking quality. If we get to 18 and 2, that's not an unreasonable thing."

Adding an additional regular-season game could, theoretically, result in a second bye week being added, which would lengthen the regular season. But Goodell would welcome that, he said, as he envisions a Presidents Day weekend built around the Super Bowl on Sunday night.

"And then you have Monday off," Goodell said.
 
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Netflix to Air Christmas Day NFL Games

Netflix has reached a three-year agreement with the NFL to show Christmas Day games starting this season, the platform announced on Wednesday morning. Both of t
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Netflix to Air Christmas Day NFL Games​

Streaming services are having a moment.

Netflix has reached a three-year agreement with the NFL to show Christmas Day games starting this season, the platform announced on Wednesday morning. Both of the NFL's Dec. 25 contests will air exclusively on Netflix in 2024 and they'll carry at least one game in both 2025 and 2026. The confirmation comes after a report from Bloomberg this morning suggested the deal was set to be announced.

Bloomberg reports that the price tag for such a privilege clocks in at just under $150 million. This is the first time Netflix has ever shown live sports on this level and the first time football will be featured. But they have been dipping their toes into those waters in recent years with the Quarterback series.
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The NFL has previously announced two other streaming exclusives this year — a Week 1 game on Peacock and a wildcard playoff game that will be on Amazon.

Just sayin':

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Australia among places NFL scouting for games

Australia is among the countries the NFL is scouting as potential hosts for regular-season games for the 2025 season and beyond.
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Australia among countries NFL scouting as host for games​

Australia is among the countries the NFL is scouting as potential hosts for regular-season games for the 2025 season and beyond.

Peter O'Reilly, the NFL's head of international affairs, said Tuesday at the league's spring meetings that Australia is among the markets being discussed. The league recently announced an NFL Academy will open in September on the Gold Coast in Australia.

"Australia is among a set, and it's not a small set of markets, that we're looking at," O'Reilly said.

O'Reilly noted Australia has a strong NFL fan base and media partners and that both the Philadelphia Eagles and Los Angeles Rams have global market rights there.

He updated NFL owners on the countries league officials are looking at as potential hosts. The NFL announced in February before the Super Bowl that the 2025 season's international slate of games will feature a game at Real Madrid's iconic Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.
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Do you really think that the NFL will eventually expand to having teams from non-US cities?
 
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Pick is in: Pittsburgh to host NFL draft in 2026

Pittsburgh will host the 2026 NFL draft, the league announced at its spring meetings Wednesday.
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NFL announces Pittsburgh to host draft in 2026​

The NFL draft is heading to the Steel City.

Pittsburgh will host the 2026 NFL draft, the league announced at its spring meetings Wednesday, marking the first time the city has hosted the draft since the event moved out of New York City in 2015.

Steelers team president and CEO Art Rooney II said the plan is to stage the draft outside Acrisure Stadium on the North Shore of the city.
 
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