NFL Collective Bargaining Agreement

Article 31
Additional Regular Season Games


(a) The League and/or Clubs shall have the discretion to increase the number of regular season games per Club from sixteen (16) to seventeen (17) (but not more), provided that the combined total of preseason and regular season games played per Club shall not exceed twenty (20) games. The League and/or Clubs shall not increase the number of regular season games per Club to eighteen (18) or more games.

(b) In any League Year in which the League and/or Clubs elect to increase the number of regular season games per Club to seventeen (17), the following amendments to this Agreement, including its appendices, shall automatically become effective on the first day of such League Year: any references to Salary: (i) earned or paid over sixteen (16) games shall be modified to be earned or paid over seventeen (17) games; (ii) earned or paid over seventeen (17) weeks shall be modified to be earned or paid over eighteen (18) weeks; or (iii) earned or paid over thirty-four (34) weeks shall be modified to be earned or paid over thirty-six (36) weeks. In addition, any reference to Salary that is expressed as a fraction having the number seventeen as its denominator (e.g., 1/17th, 15/17ths, etc.) shall be modified to have the number 18 as its denominator (e.g., 1/18th, 15/18ths, etc.).