Just a quick question, why (besides the unlimited profit that a individual team makes because they don't have to pay thier players during the pre-season.) does the NFL play so many pre-season games?  These "necessery" games are a show-off ground for someone who will be sitting on the sidelines drinking gatorade, haveing useless discussions, and attempting to pick up chicks by saying "I carry Tom Brady's helmet when he is warming up for the game, maybe i can introduce you to him?".

Jay Mohr said it best when he said with every dropped pass UPS gets a new driver, a missed tackle and Dish network just got a new service rep for their North Buffalo area.

Every player has off-season workouts, Mini-camps, OTA's, with the later two being completely unnecessary.  Have a training camp that begins Mid- August, have scrimmages between two teams that are in close proximaty to each other and then play a few more games that actually matter to the standings.

I think they will change their minds when Peyton Manning, Reggie Bush, or Andre Johnson go down with a season ending injury that will hurt a team's chances for making the playoffs or at least being competitive.

Let's not care always about money, but care that everyone on a teams first-team offense and defense will be healthy and will make every week of the NFL interesting.

Best to everyone,

Mark