The NFL currently plays a 17-game schedule, entering the third season of the expanded schedule after almost 35 years of playing 16 games. Yet it feels inevitable that at some point, the league will expand the season again and go to 18 games. If that is the case, how would the NFL create the schedule rotation and add the 18th game?
John Sigler of Saints Wire recently looked into that possibility and gave some options on how to create the schedule, including adding a second bye week — the NFL used two bye weeks in 1993 with the new television deals that year — and moving the Super Bowl to the day before Presidents’ Day.
