On occasion, one can observe holding penalties on back-to-back plays during regular season games.
Regular season games feature the fastest, strongest players and the speed of the game picks up.
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Ever since 1978, the NFL has held four incredibly boring preseason games and then 16 regular season games.
So why is the league looking to add two more regular season games?
The AF2 season of 16 regular season games runs from April to July.
The early indicators suggest that pent-up demand and fewer regular season games will inspire fan interest to, possibly, unprecedented heights.
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The risk to the players is that the league will harden its positions as more regular season games are canceled.
On Monday the professional hockey lock-out entered its 86th day, canceling 422 regular season games and threatening the entire hockey season.
In that stretch, league officials canceled the All-Star Game, the annual outdoor Winter Class game and hundreds of regular season games.
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However, that will certainly change if he misses any regular season games.
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Loomis was suspended without pay for the season's first eight regular-season games, while Vitt was suspended without pay for the first six regular-season games.
As stated earlier, there are a total of 64 preseason games which are of course followed by 512 regular season games and 11 postseason games.
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They say that the only real concern is if training camps and the pre-season are pushed back far enough such that regular season games are missed.
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When the Broncos run a lot of plays, they have a propensity to cough up the football, a flaw that lost them their last three regular season games.
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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Loomis was suspended without pay for the season's first eight regular season games, while assistant head coach Joe Vitt was suspended without pay for the first six regular season games.
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).
When I published the article, the UFL had suspended training camp for 30 days, its regular season games were pushed back a month and the league decided to shorten its season.
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Concussions per game dropped to .594 per game (190 in 320 preseason and regular-season games) in 2011 from .679 per game (218 in 321 preseason and regular-season games) in 2010.
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But if they get their wish for two more regular season games, they could be starting the process of destroying their own game, thanks to more injuries and the far-reaching implications of those injuries.
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The NBA work stoppage delayed the start of the professional basketball league's regular season by about two months, cutting the combined number of preseason and regular season games to six from 40 a year earlier.
The Magic organization looks petty for relieving a coach who won two-thirds of his regular season games, and Mr. Howard looks similarly petty and diva-ish for failing to co-exist professionally with a proven coaching talent.
And this is likely an understatement since the FCI estimates provided by Team Marketing Reports are based on regular season games where ticket prices are less expensive (though the league gets a larger share of playoff gate revenues).
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Those are astonishingly favorable odds, but also a little pathetic the second Wild Card was added to bring more meaning to divisional races, but with the Yankees and Boston all but rubber-stamped for October, does it render regular season games even less important?
So why have the owners thus far cancelled 422 regular season games of the 2012-13 season, as well as the All-Star Game, insisting on a new CBA that drastically reduces the amount of money that can be spent on player salaries (currently 57% of hockey-related revenue)?
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The proposals that are floating around now, 17 or 18 regular season games, this is driven by a desire for more revenue because there's more to be made, especially from the television networks, if you have staged more actual games even though you're going to have to pay the players more and you're going to risk more injuries to players.
And blackouts are rare anyway, occurring in only 16 of last season's 256 regular-season games, partly because some team owners and sponsors buy up unsold seats to get blackouts lifted.
They joined the New York Knicks as the only teams to beat Miami twice this season and have won three straight regular-season games over the Heat.
This season, 23 of North Carolina's 30 regular-season games aired on national TV, with the others available on regional stations or ESPN3.
The National Football League's national TV contract prevents the team from broadcasting regular-season games.
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