Art Rooney II is in favor of the NFL's decision to add an additional game to its regular season schedule.
League owners voted in approval of changing the regular season from 16 games to 17 during the Annual League Meeting on Tuesday (March 30), which is being held virtually amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, according to
NFL.com. The new schedule will go into effect during the upcoming 2021 NFL regular season and preseason, which will now be limited to three games per team.
"On the football side of things, we have learned we can live without four preseason games," said Rooney at the conclusion of the two-day virtual Owners Meeting that ratified this change via the Steelers' official website. "As you know there was a time when we had six preseason games, and then we went to four. It's still a 20-game season basically, but we're converting one of the preseason games into a regular season game. For fans, they would rather see a regular season game than a preseason game, so that makes sense. And from a football standpoint we can learn to live with three preseason games rather than four."