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Giants safety Antoine Bethea had a pithy explanation of why the owners want an 18-game schedule and the players do not: It affects the owners’ bottom line, and it affects the players’ bodies.
Bethea said that the people who will suffer increased injury risk if the players are required to play two more games a year are the ones who oppose it, while the people who will see increased revenues are the ones who support it.
“The people that’s talking about 18 games obviously aren’t the people who are on the field,” Bethea said, via the New York Daily News. “It’s not affecting them. It’s not affecting their bodies. All it is affecting is their pockets in a positive way. So I don’t think they’re really thinking about the reaction it will have on the players. I think the setup we have now has been working. If it’s not broke, don’t fix it. I think where we’re at right now is cool, 16 games. We still have postseason. I think what we got going on now is good.”
With the players adamant that the season should not be expanded, what we don’t yet know is whether either side is going to be willing to concede on another issue to get its preferred season length. The length of the season is one of the many issues that needs to be resolved before the next Collective Bargaining Agreement can be agreed upon.