The NFL possesses an absolutely virtuoso talent for introducing complexity to processes that don’t require additional complexity. The NFL rulebook is the prime example of that—just think about all the times we’ve had genuine debates about what constitutes a catch.
The NFL schedule and how it is created is already complicated enough. Starting next season, according to NFL vice president of broadcast planning Mike North, they are going to have an even wider variety of options for where games can be housed on broadcast.
“The designation of which network gets [a game] by who the road team is, that part’s going away”, he said on The Ari Meirov Show.