The National Football League has never been bigger and it's very likely that the league is going to grow even more in future seasons when they inevitably expand the regular season to 18 games. Change is always tough,

Last year, Howell said this about the possibility of expanding to an 18-game regular season: "It sounds attractive. Who doesn’t want to see more football, myself included?" On Wednesday, Howell made it clear that plenty don't want to see more football.

While the NFL talks about an 18th regular season game as a foregone conclusion, the NFLPA says, 'Not so fast.'

The majority of NFL players are against playing an 18-game regular-season schedule, NFLPA executive director Lloyd Howell told reporters Wednesday in New Orleans.

NFLPA Executive Director Lloyd Howell slammed the door on the idea of adding an 18th game to the NFL regular season on Wednesday, saying that "no one" among the players had any interest in expanding the schedule.

The NFL and its owners seem to favor an eventual move to an 18-game season. The players, on the other hand, don't appear to be interested in such a