18 Game Season. What are you thinking NFL?

As we all know, The NFL player's season is 17 games long, of course with one bye week. A possible 3 game post season and if lucky enough, make it to the Super Bowl. That's a total of 20 games. Already, the average career of a player is right around three years. It seems like there are more and more injuries everyday I turn on ESPN but still the NFL is proposing to have a 18 game season. By taking two games off of the preseason, and simply adding them onto the end of the regular season, they will succeed in shortening players career's and make it harder for players to get evaluated in the beginning of the season.

By adding two games at the end of the season, for the average player, that is like an extra six games. Over time, these extra games will add up. Take a look at Brett Farve. He has been playing in the NFL for 19 years. That means that by now, if Farve played in 18 game seasons, he could have possibly played an each 38 games. That's right around 2.3 seasons, extra, tacked on to his career. Meaning, he probably would of retired two season's ago, and we, as the world, would not of seen Brett Farve in a Vikings jersey. Never would of seen Farve to Moss probably either.

Currently, players, more specifically undrafted or unsigned players, have a four game preseason to get evaluated by coaches and to see if they can make the team. By taking two games away, you force coaches to play there starters a half per game to get them into the swing of things. Now, the undrafted rookie, like Jeff Saturday was, has just one game total to prove that he is the 4-time pro bowl center that he currently is. This presents a huge problem because that may not be enough time to fully see the potential and talent of a player. What if in this one game, he happens to have a bad game, and now all of a sudden, he is off the team.  

I realize that if the 18-season does go into effect that the NFL players will absorb it because they will have no choice. They will get use to the fact of 18 games, but will the length of their career's be able to absorb the extra abuse, that the extra can deliver?

Harrison Fined. Right or Wrong?

In the latest news, the NFL is trying to keep the number of injuries at a minimum, especially head injuries, because as of late, they have been increasingly abundant. Just last weekend, James Harrison in the same quarter, not only delivered one devastating hit but two. One, that was against browns versatile athlete, Joshua Cribbs right around the nine minute and twenty two second mark and the other, against wide receiver Mohamed Massaquoi with one minute and fifty five seconds left in the quarter.

Harrison was fined by the league on Tuesday, the 19th of October, to the tone of 75,000 dollars for the specific hit that he distributed to Mohamed Massaquoi.

Was the NFL right to fine him. In my opinion, Yes. The hit was head to head and could have been easily prevented if Harrison wanted to. Is pro football a violent sport? Yes. Will players get hurt? without a doubt, Yes. Injuries are apart of the game just as much as shoulder pads. I mean lets face it, if injuries were not regular, then why would players be forced, and in every case, willing, to wear all of the equipment that they do?

Brain Urlacher even proposed to the Chicago Tribune that, "Lets make it the NFFL-the National Flag Football League. Its unbelievable." As much as i would like to agree with Urlacher, I still realize that people come to stadiums to watch the players. It is a players League. You don't buy the colt jersey with the number 18 on it because you like the number, you buy it because of the name MANNING on the back of it. The fines are given out and rules are put in place to protect the players, the true money of the NFL. when you get down to it, the players are rich and the owners are wealthy. If the big time players are not able to do there job then sooner or later, the owners will not be able to do there occupation. The rules are there to protect investments that the owners have in the players.


In my opinion, in the future, the NFL should crack down on head to head collisions because they can be prevented. If a player is fined upwards of 100,000 dollars every time they deliver a helmet to helmet hit, I can guarantee that the head injuries, such as concussions, will drop dramatically.

Here is the link for the Video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLXJy3dap3o

  

Intro

First off, I would like to introduce myself, so that you will have a better understanding of where I'm coming from in future posts.

My name is Kyle Peacock and I am currently a senior at GCSU, and like most students, would like to go ahead and graduate. Never the less, I'm majoring in Business Management. Although the title of senior usually means that it is your last year, or for older folks, last years; I know that there will be at least one more year glued onto the end of my collegiate career.

I'm in to just about any sport/game there is. Basically if you can win, then I would like to personally beat you, of course with no abuse. Extremely competitive. Music would have to be Rap/Hip-Hop. I like clever music, music that makes you hit the rewind button in your head. Music that has meaning and substance. With that said, I just cant listen to the radio. ENTERTAINERS like soulja boi and wacka flocka flame, fill the radio stations, while lyricists like Outkast and Lupa fill my ears.

Lets see, I have a black belt in tangsudo, which means "the way of the open hand" aka weaponless combat. And trust me, when i say open hand, that doesn't mean I'm going to slap you, fyi. Played football  in high school, on the offensive line. Only weighed 170 pounds, so you can say football made me tough and probably molded many of my viewpoints on life that I still have today.

The title of the blog explains it all. News that involves the National Football League.

Legacy,

"Realize that your legacy is passion driven. When passion is aligned with vision, the venture becomes authentic. So regardless of the struggles involved, when the going gets tough, and it always does, passion can sustain the team."  Lt. Col. Eric L. Cathey