ChiefsPlanet - Football Start of Training Camps to become “Midnight Madness”-style celebrations?

Sounds like another attempt by the NFL to create gimmicky “events”, similar to the schedule release, but I think most fans are so desperate for football of any type by late July that people will be interested.

From Peter King’s column today:

Link: https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...ia-peter-king/

Quote:

JULY 27? A HOLIDAY? Mark that date on your calendar, NFL fans. This is interesting: The NFL is thinking seriously of a “Midnight Madness” sort of opening to the training-camp season, with 28 teams opening on the same date and with some fanfare accompanying it. The new Collective Bargaining Agreement calls for teams to open camp 47 days before their first regular-season games, and so 28 of the 32 teams could (and I say could, because this is not final yet) open training camp on the same date—on or about Tuesday, July 27. (The two teams playing the Thursday night opener, plus the two teams playing the Hall of Fame game, would likely start a few days earlier.) The NFL has been good at inventing dates in dead spots of the calendar for the NFL to spring to front of mind. Late February: scouting combine. Mid-March: start of free agency. Late April: draft. So how about a special date in the dog days of summer? That’s what the league will try to do in the range of July 27 for 28 teams by celebrating the start of training camp.