The National Football League has never been bigger and it's very likely that the league is going to grow even more in future seasons when they inevitably expand the regular season to 18 games. Change is always tough,

Last year, Howell said this about the possibility of expanding to an 18-game regular season: "It sounds attractive. Who doesn’t want to see more football, myself included?" On Wednesday, Howell made it clear that plenty don't want to see more football.

The NFL and its owners seem to favor an eventual move to an 18-game season. The players, on the other hand, don't appear to be interested in such a

Leaders of the NFL Players Association made it clear Wednesday that adding an 18th game to the NFL’s regular season is still a non-starter for the majority of the roughly 2,000 players on NFL rosters.