The NFL is about as undeniable a capitalist entity as exists today. The league not only played its first games in Dublin, Ireland, and Madrid, Spain, but it also cemented itself as the new owner of Christmas Day, which used to belong to the NBA.
The league has no plans of slowing down, either. According to one of the league’s most prominent owners, more change is coming to the league in hopes of increasing its global and domestic footprint.
According to New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, the league is going to do just about everything it can to get every team to play an international game, and it’s not stopping there. It will also look to add a game to the regular season schedule, which it is well aware it will have to make up for by removing a game elsewhere on the schedule, and in this instance, the preseason.
#Patriots owner Robert Kraft says the NFL wants to move to an 18-game regular season, reduce the preseason from three games to two, and have every NFL team play an international game each season.
(🎥 @985TheSportsHub)
— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) January 20, 2026
Fans reacted to Kraft’s revelation on social media.
“Expand the season schedule, expand roster sizes, start season earlier and put Super Bowl on Presidents’ Day weekend in February so everyone has Monday off. Expand player health care coverage and give 3 bye weeks, so you get higher quality product on the field,” one fan wrote on Twitter.
“They can’t make more money so their only solution is just more games,” someone else added.
“I cannot emphasize how much I am against this, yet I know it’s coming,” another fan added.
It’ll be interesting to see what the Players’ Union has to say about this.
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Qwame Skinner has loved both writing and sports his entire life. In addition to his sports coverage at Comeback Media, Qwame writes novels, and his debut; The First Casualty, an adult fantasy, is out now.