You know that the NFL is a monster when there is a press release, and some anticipation, announcing the 65-game Preseason Schedule. The Preseason Schedule! It was announced at 12:15 PST on Wednesday. The 2014 NFL Preseason will kickoff on Sunday, August 3 in Canton, when the Buffalo Bills face the New York Giants in the Hall of Fame game. Eight of the 65 games will be televised nationally, including the Hall of Fame game.
The four-game preseason will be in peril every year as Commissioner Roger Goodell chases his dream of an 18-game regular season. For some reason the commish equates two regular season games with two preseason games. He thinks that everything comes up even when two games that don't count are dropped for two extra games that do count. Astonishing. It's the players that actually play the games that are doing this math correctly.
Every year for the past decade, the Minnesota Vikings have played a four-game preseason schedule that has included the Houston Texans, Buffalo Bills, San Francisco 49ers and some random fourth team. Actually, that's only happened the last two years. It just feels like a decade. This year, the NFL has thrown some variety into the preseason schedule. The Vikings were rewarded with this:
Week 1 vs. Oakland Raiders
Week 2 vs. Arizona Cardinals
Week 3 at Kansas City Chiefs
Week 4 at Tennessee Titans
Week 1 is the weekend of August 7-10.
That's some exciting stuff. The real exciting stuff will come when the NFL releases the regular season schedule. That should get more attention than this preseason stuff.
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