"It's not broken, but let's **** with it anyway!"

Give 'em a break guys, there are no more homes to buy.

I can't wait to see how people respond when the schedule is 18 games with 2 byes, there are 40 teams, 16 of those teams make the playoffs and the NFL season lasts from the end of August until the beginning of March.

They will, and Clark is helping lead the charge on it.

Yea Clark is basically the head of the finance committee so this is something he's leading.

You don't get to be a multibillionaire without crushing some "little people" along the way.

You don't have to if you're a nepo baby, but I digress.

Here's the plan:

Get multiple new expansion teams. Each expansion fee will be north of a billion dollars, maybe even two billion. That's a straight check to each owner. If they expand by eight teams, then each owner will get somewhere between 250-500 million. They'll get a smaller cut in the media deal, but an NFL deal with international teams would be worth far more, so they'll get a smaller piece of a much, much larger pie.

At least the slave-labor-built stadium in Riyadh will be a dome, I guess.

It's funny how people don't see all this coming a mile away.

More teams longer season more games, more money.

They'll frost the insides of the beer cups to save a tablespoon of beer. It adds up!

I'm just waiting for them to institute transfer fees. Then you'll have Saudi-backed teams buying the rights to players from teams that draft guys not as players, but pure financial instruments.

The ruthlessness of making money will be the first thing people talk about for obvious reasons and that's all correct. But even in terms of the on-field product, I could see a world where if this happens, it will lead football into a baseball direction where a lot of the decision makers aren't football guys but businessmen. Leaning very much into analytics, GMs making decisions over coaches, etc... all the things you're seeing in baseball where the game is run by businessmen with ruthless efficiency. It'd be interesting to see how that played out.

Well that would be interesting seeing as baseball is a much more stats driven game than football is.

What, did Blackrock run out of family homes to buy?

Yeah, if you see how private equity strip mined American companies, fired productive people and sold off assets just to get a quick buck this is not a positive development at all.

Again this is being done because the NFL rules of one owner is being harder because franchise value's have skyrocketed. The amount of individuals that can write a check for six billion dollars is very very limited.