The Facts:
According to Daniel Kaplan of the SportsBusiness Journal, the NFL is considering season lengths for 2011 as short as eight regular-season games, half its normal number, as the league plans for the possibility of an abbreviated season because of the nearly three-month-long lockout, sources said. An eight-game season could start in late November.
Reported by the Redzone.org
Fantasy Football Diehards Line:
As Profootballtalk.com notes, such a plan would would require a deal to be reached in October and it would allow five weeks for free agency, training camps and maybe a single preseason game. With the league able to play the Indianapolis Super Bowl as late as February 12 and thus the conference title games on February 5, the regular season could end on January 15, which would allow an eight-game season to begin on Thanksgiving weekend, possibly with the Lions and Cowboys kicking off the season in their traditional fourth-Thursday-in-November spot and the first full Sunday landing on November 27. For what it's worth, PFT reports the absolute minimum lead time is three weeks, which would put the drop-dead date in early November.
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