The Monday after the final Sunday of the NFL regular season has been dubbed Black Monday because it is the day the season of head coach firings begin.
According to the league, an average of almost three players per team are injured (that is, eventually added to the injury report) during a given NFL regular season game.
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The results are surprising: any given Saturday in college football season or any Sunday during the NFL regular season is a bigger Vegas event than the World Series, the NBA Finals, or the Stanley Cup.
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In the NFL, the regular season was dominated by luminous offenses carrying pedestrian defenses.
It marks the return of college football, high school football and the regular NFL season begins soon.
Remember that last year, a regular season NFL game between the New Orleans Saints and the Pittsburgh Steelers drew 3 million more TV viewers than Game 4 of the Fall Classic between the San Francisco Giants and the Texas Rangers.
This year, the NFL Network expanded its regular-season schedule and will broadcast 13 games, starting with the Chicago Bears visiting the Green Bay Packers on Sept. 13.
It was the most watched regular season broadcast in NFL history.
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John David Booty, who was a fifth round pick in the 2009 draft, is out of the NFL and never played in a regular season game.
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Three years ago the Lions became the only team in NFL history to lose all 16 regular season games since the league went to a 16-game schedule in 1978.
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Vikings QB Brett Favre is the poster boy for why there should be an 18-game regular season, which the NFL owners plan to implement in 2012.
But Garrard hadn't played in a regular-season game in the NFL since 2010 because of injuries.
For college football to go the way of the NFL would be for it to devalue the regular season in a not insubstantial way.
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Despite not taking a regular-season snap in the NFL since 2010, the 35-year-old veteran is healthy and looking forward to trying to beat out Mark Sanchez and whoever else might be in the mix at quarterback for the Jets this season.
Compares the number of wins per player payroll relative to the rest of the NFL. Playoff wins count twice as much as regular season wins.
That distinction has typically been the sole preserve of hockey-basketball arenas, where smaller capacities make it easier to squeeze more money from each seat--not to mention an NFL team's limitations of playing only eight regular season home games a year.
The NFL also says 98 percent of tickets for 2013 regular-season games already have been sold.
The NFL does not stream most games for free during the regular season.
Ever since 1978, the NFL has held four incredibly boring preseason games and then 16 regular season games.
While NFL attendance was steady last season (the total in the regular season was up slightly), there's growing concern among teams that in the age of plasma televisions and rising ticket prices, there's a bleak outlook for in-game attendance.
For many weeks of the regular season the Top 5 Nielsen Rated television shows were nighttime NFL football.
Teams also receive money from the NFL to pay players for their participation in the playoffs (contracts only run through the regular season).
The NFL watched the replacement refs make many wrong calls in the first two weeks of the regular season and let them continue to make them.
"These are the lowest head coach diversity numbers the league has seen since 2003, when the Rooney Rule was just implemented, " wrote Harry Carson, the Fritz Pollard Alliance's executive director, in a letter to NFL officials regarding the drop from six to four black head coaches in the league after this past regular season.
The NFL playoffs and Super Bowl in particular resembled the shift that annually occurs in the NBA between (most) regular season games and playoff games (and some bigger regular season ones).
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