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===Controversy===
Currently, every NFL team requires their season ticket holders to purchase tickets at full price for two preseason games as a requirement to purchase regular season tickets. Complaints regarding this policy have gone all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, but have failed to change the policy. A judgment in 1974 stated: ''"No fewer than five lawsuits have been instituted from Dallas to New England, each claiming that the respective National Football League (NFL) team had violated the [[Sherman Act]] by requiring an individual who wishes to purchase a season ticket for all regular season games to buy, in addition, tickets for one or more exhibition or preseason games."''
Additionally, some players, coaches, and journalists object to the 4 week preseason schedule. Players have little incentive to play in the preseason, since they do not get paid extra for these games, and thus are essentially playing them "for free". In spite of this, the risk of injury during the preseason is just as great as during the regular season. Nearly every year, marquee players are lost for the season due to injuries in exhibition games. In spite of these objections, owners continue to endorse the four game preseason, as they are an easy source of revenue, and thus are unlikely to go away in the foreseeable future. <ref> [http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_466413.html '''Starkey, Joe''' "Exhibition overkill", Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, August 17, 2006]</ref>
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