17

There are 17 regular season games in the NFL this year.

The first time ever in the league's 101 year history.

Obviously, I am ecstatic.

They have been playing 16 regular season games since 1978.

You ask - one goddamn game? What's the big deal? Adding one game to the schedule is equivalent to adding 10 games to Major League Baseball's schedule.

Ya dig?

Football is played once a week. Even though they play on Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays. Each team only plays once in the span of a week. Unless they play twice. So every game is intense. 

There are so many baseball games that "number of fans caught yawning on camera" is considered a valuable metric.

This is a big deal. Especially for fanatics - of which I am one.

It's like Christmas, my birthday, winning Powerball, losing 25 pounds - it is spectacular.

An extra week of football, baby.

This improves my life immeasurably.