The expansion of the regular season to 18 games is a bad idea that won't go away. Rather than take a logical step and kill it once and for all, the NFL owners decided to look at it again after the 2012 season.
From a pure financial view, it's a no-brainer to eliminate two pre-season games and add two more to the regular season. Accountants have crunched numbers to see how much more money the league could extract from the television network and the owners are salivating.
However, when looking at player safety, it becomes a deeply flawed idea. As it stands now, most teams limp their way into the playoffs. The Super Bowl winner is usually the one who is able to have the healthiest team.
Many injuries are difficult to prevent. The sixteen game regular season is a grind. The expansion of the rosters isn't really a solution. Starters will continue to get hurt as the season moves on.
The best solution is to forget about it. They should stick to sixteen games. By tabling it until after the end of the 2012 season, the owners are only procrastinating from killing a bad idea.
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