Quote:Two overseas franchises?

 

Maybe, but I think what he meant is that every team will eventually play one overseas game whether in London or elsewhere.  16 games would equal 32 teams in total which is what we currently have in the league.

 

I think they need to be careful about expanding the league beyond 32 teams since the way that they are currently able to schedule 32 teams is very straight forward and easy with playing your division rivals twice a year and playing 1 other division from each conference and the two other teams that finished in the same position as your team within their respective divisions within the same conference.  If it jumped to 34 teams, you'd probably have the occasional scheduling anomaly where two non-division opponents faced each other twice in the same year during the regular season.   That used to happen occasionally when there were 30 teams and the divisions weren't equally divided.

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