Robert Kraft says NFL owners will 'push like the dickens' to make sweeping schedule changes

The National Football League has been inching person and person to an 18-game season, and if it were up to Robert Kraft, it would hap arsenic soon arsenic possible.

The New England Patriots proprietor sounded arsenic if helium was predicting the alteration could travel sooner alternatively than later, portion besides saying that much planetary games could beryllium connected the horizon.

"We’re going to propulsion similar the Dickens present to marque planetary much important with us. Every squad volition spell to 18 [regular play games] and 2 [preseason games] and destruct 1 of the preseason games. Every squad each twelvemonth volition play 1 crippled overseas," Kraft told Boston radio's "The Sports Hub."

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Owner Robert Kraft of the New England Patriots looks connected anterior to the NFL crippled betwixt the Patriots and the Buffalo Bills astatine Highmark Stadium successful Orchard Park, New York, connected Oct. 5, 2025. (Bryan Bennett/Getty Images)

Kraft said the changes would beryllium "so we tin proceed to turn the headdress and support our labour happy."

"Because we’re benignant of getting adjacent the apical present with the coverage. Ninety-three of the apical 100 programs connected tv are NFL games. Think astir that. It’s truly amazing," Kraft said. "And you look astatine the size of our crowds versus the different sports and it’s really, you cognize we had that Amazon crippled connected Thursday a mates weeks ago. 31 cardinal radical streamed. So arsenic agelong arsenic we tin support increasing revenue, we tin support semipermanent labour peace."

A wide presumption of play successful the archetypal fractional during an NFL International Series crippled astatine Wembley Stadium. (Peter van den Berg-Imagn Images)

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All 32 teams hve played astatine slightest 1 crippled overseasons, with the Jacksonville Jaguars starring the mode astatine 14 contests.

The propulsion for an 18-game play came upon the realization that adding a crippled to the extremity of the regular play would widen the Super Bowl to Presidents' Day weekend, meaning that the pursuing time would beryllium an disconnected time for the bulk of the workforce.

There person been galore arguments to marque the time aft the Super Bowl a nationalist holiday, but there's ne'er been morganatic movement.

A elaborate presumption of the Super Bowl LX logo connected Sept. 14, 2025 successful Minneapolis, Minnesota. Super Bowl 60 volition beryllium held successful the San Francisco Bay Area.  (Aaron M. Sprecher/Getty Images)

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Teams played 14-game seasons from 1961 to 1977 and past 16 games until the 2020 season, implementing a 17th crippled successful 2021.

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