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According to a report in the New York Post brought to us courtesy of Touchdown Wire, the NFL is contemplating some pretty radical changes to the NFL schedule just days before it is scheduled to be announced.
According to the report, if college football doesn’t return in the fall, all teams including the Pittsburgh Steelers could find themselves capitalizing on the open day of the weekend and play some NFL games on Saturday.
With the NFL expected to release its schedule soon, its officials have discussed giving the league some flexibility to move games to Saturdays this fall if college football postpones its entire season, according to sources.
While the majority of the week’s schedule would remain on Sundays, along with the primetime Monday and Thursday slates, some stand-alone games could be reset for Saturdays.
The NFL will only consider the move if there is no college football. It is still unclear if college football will be played this fall because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This is a slippery slope should it happen. I totally get the NFL wanting to move some games around in order to grab those Saturday football ratings. But as we’ve seen for many years, playing games on short weeks doesn’t make for quality football.
We should know more in the next six weeks when most states are well into their re-opening of the economy and we will see if gatherings on the scale of a college football game are recommended.
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