October 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cThere was talk about doing a week, an international week, where you had games in 16 different places and you just added an extra bye week,\u201d Rodgers began. \u201cSo you play 16 regular season, you have two bye weeks, one of those weeks would\u2019ve been an international week, I think it would\u2019ve been phenomenal for the game. Owners wanted to push for 17 games for the extra revenue and because they care so much about player safety, but it would\u2019ve been nice.\u201d<\/p>\n
He continued: \u201cI think there\u2019s great opportunities for expansion in those things. It\u2019d be nice to see them have an international week, because I think it\u2019s great for the game and expansion of the game. I wish there was a mandate, though, from the league \u2014 and they would have to open up their pocketbooks too, you know maybe they\u2019re a little tight on money and stuff \u2014 I think they should mandate every team coming over Sunday or Monday to really enjoy the culture of the place you\u2019re going. You can do events in those cities and outreach stuff and community work, but they won\u2019t because they\u2019re a little tight [on money].\u201d<\/p>\n
Rodgers is clearly on board with playing international games, but he\u2019s equally convicted that the NFL should go about scheduling these games in a way that is more considerate of the players. His comments come after safety was a key focus all week<\/a> ahead of the Paris game amid civil unrest in France. The game, luckily, went off without a hitch, but served as a reminder that there are player welfare considerations that go well beyond long international travel when the NFL stages games in other countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aaron Rodgers and the Pittsburgh Steelers are leaving Paris with a win over the New Orleans Saints, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3269,73,75,74,1833],"class_list":["post-314355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-aaron-rodgers","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}