Season Without End, Amen.
The NFL will...not...stop
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NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is any number of things, subtle not among them. So when Goodell drops the most obvious hints in the world that the league will schedule a game in Berlin next year, let’s all save ourselves some trouble and just book it.
“I usually say don’t believe rumors,” the commish intoned during a fan event in Munich last weekend, just ahead of the Giants-Panthers game there. “In this case, I say believe them.”
Believe this, too: Goodell and his NFL owner pals aren’t going to stop. Their international push is really just now gathering steam, and an 18-game regular season is going to be swinging into view before you know it.
And while we’re on the subject, what makes 17 or 18 a sacred number? Isn’t 20 nicer and rounder?
It sure is. Also (whispers)…richer.
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