(08-22-2021, 09:25 AM)rpr52121 Wrote: Why do we makes such a big deal out of NFL preseason?

There is a lot of evidence that the preseason "results" don't correlate with the regular season. And I don't feel fans give anywhere the same credence to preseasons/spring trainings/etc in MLB, NBA, NHL, or even soccer friendlies that NFL fans give to preseason games.

People only obsess about it while we're in it, and only because the NFL is such a sparse game compared to all the others. Baseball plays 5 or 6 games a week, basketball does 3, so does the NHL, and soccer plays more than once a week, too. The NFL plays 20 games over 21 weeks. All those other sports play at least twice as many games and often over a longer period.

If the NFL played 40 games over 30 weeks the preseason would probably seem less important than it does. It would also help to just get rid of the preseason all together and just have teams practice against each other if they want to for a few weeks in June and July, and make the season 18 real games starting in mid August.

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