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Originally Posted by cjones2451
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I'm amazed they got it out so early... maybe it's happened before, but I can't recall when the schedule was released before Christmas.
The season is longer now in the name of player safety, so we have the preseason starting in late May and the first game in the middle of June. In some respects it's a good way to test the waters for moving the season up even earlier in 2019 once the NFL Network deal is finalized.
Personally I think it'll work... it'll just require some extra marketing dollars to remind fans that football is starting at a time when the Stanley Cup Playoffs are dominating the Canadian sports media.