NFL might consolidate franchise strength with possible addition of two more teams – NFL News
The premier league of the American professional football, National Football League (NFL), is aiming to consolidate its franchise strength with possibility of adding a couple of more teams to increase the total to 34 teams, from the current number of 32 teams.
NFL’s commissioner, Roger Goodell, said on Friday, February 03, 2012 that the league office looks to put a team in Los Angeles and if that happens, the office is most likely to have another team in any other city, as the odd number of 33 teams was not workable.
"We probably don't want to go to 33" teams, Goodell said, while referring to their plans of placing a team in the city of Los Angles, expected to happen in the current offseason.
"We would like to be back in Los Angeles if we can do it correctly," Goodell said.
Speaking to mediamen at a pre-Super Bowl conference call, the commissioner said his office has not weighed the option of expansion as such, and it was only a possibility that a couple of more teams could be added to it.
He also played down an impression that the NFL was not serious on the concussion and tightening of its policies of players’ protection and safety from head injuries. He said that the league was leading many other organizations on the issue and was helping
some of them in their tackling.
"We're in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League," he said. "We do have a game that's rough. There are inherent risks playing it. But the second-highest incident of concussions is girls' soccer. So what we're learning
about concussions in football is helping other sports. Not just every level of football, but every other sport.”
His latest remarks about the NFL’s achievements come a couple of weeks after he had pointed out at the successful running of his office as a best example of capitalism, and using it as a platform to support and promote the socialism aspect of the sport.
The obvious reference of the commissioner was to the profitable business of the sports of American football and his office’s ability to generate revenues of about $10 billion annually through rights selling and other means.
There is an expectation around the possibility that the NFL income will go up in the future, especially if it implements its plans of increasing the number of Thursday night games, which has been done a couple of days ago, and the latest plans of adding
to the total number of its franchises.
The NFL is a representative body of 32 American professional football teams, whose owners are members and office bearers of it. The commissioner is head of all operations of the office.
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