Ideas Whose Time Have Come

We're all still slogging along with Covid-19, with the NBA heading to the bubble to finish the season and Major League Baseball eyeballing an end-of-the-month start.

Meanwhile, the NFL is still looking optimistically at a 2020 season. This past week, the league announced a reduction in pre-season games from four to two.

I know that, maybe a year or more ago, I talked about this option. At the time, it was a move that would push the NFL to an 18-game regular season. I still think that is on the near horizon -- and while Covid-19 makes a good reason to reduce pre-season games in 2020, don't be surprised if (and when) the NFL makes that permanent. At the time, I compared the NFL to our neighbors to the north, the Canadian Football League, which has two pre-season games, an 18-game regular season schedule AND two bye weeks (to the NFL's one).

This schedule sounds pretty reasonable to me.

AND WHILE WE'RE talking about the NFL, how about the increased chatter to finally drop Redskins as the Washington team name. It's inappropriate as all get-out. Time for Washington owner Dan Snyder to get with the times.

Am all in favor of keeping the maroon & gold color scheme. Let's just change the moniker. Don't have anything to suggest at this point, but, seriously, let's move forward.