Six months of no football every year is misery, but there's a simple fix: Start pro football in February.
By deconflicting the pro and college seasons, the fans get a full year of football and the NCAA and NFL no longer compete for limited TV air time on weekends, so they both make a boatload more money by freeing up space for many, many more televised games. As for weather, most NFL teams play in a dome and the handful that don't end up with two months of hot and cold weather games as is, so all the change does is swap those games to the start or end of the pro season.
What's the downside?
By deconflicting the pro and college seasons, the fans get a full year of football and the NCAA and NFL no longer compete for limited TV air time on weekends, so they both make a boatload more money by freeing up space for many, many more televised games. As for weather, most NFL teams play in a dome and the handful that don't end up with two months of hot and cold weather games as is, so all the change does is swap those games to the start or end of the pro season.
What's the downside?
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