Aaron Rodgers pulls back curtain on bargaining talks with NFL envisioning one week of 16 international games

Aaron Rodgers is an unrepentant fan of the NFL's international games and after the Pittsburgh Steelers won on Sunday in the league's first-ever game in France, the Steelers quarterback decided to offer a lesson on what those games abroad could have been if not for owners and the league not being so focused on money.

Rodgers, in his 22nd and final year in the league, reflected on past collective bargaining negotiations with the NFL after Sunday's game against the New Orleans Saints and said opportunities were missed to make international games bigger.

"The reach of the league is fantastic, and I think I always wanted to be a part of it," Rodgers said. "I remember the 2011 CBA (collective bargaining agreement), there was talk about more games, expanding the amount of international games.

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"Didn't really a whole lot until the second CBA, and there 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."

Wait, the NFL and NFL Players Association talked about having a full week of solely international games?

That might have caused something of a revolt among American NFL fans wanting to drive down the road to their local team's stadium and enjoy America's game – in America.

"So you'd play 16 regular-season games," Rodgers continued. "You have two bye weeks. One of those weeks would have been an international week. I think it'd been phenomenal for the game."

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Not in America, but tell us more, Aaron. Tell us about the current situation.

"Now that the owners want to push for 17 games for the, you know, extra revenue and because they care so much about player safety, it [the international week] would have been nice," Rodgers said.

Did you notice the passive-aggressive dig at NFL owners? But back to Aaron's wish for the international week to have come to pass:

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"I think there's 16 opportunities," he said. "I mean, you could do obviously in Canada, you could do in Mexico. There's been games in Brazil. You could probably open up another country in South America.

"Obviously, there's a lot of opportunities in Europe, you know, Ireland, fantastic, France, Spain, Germany, multiple games in England. And then who knows?"

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The "who knows," in Rodgers' mind, includes playing in more exotic