As the NFL continues studying ways to spice up its preseason, one idea that garnered discussion at Wednesday morning’s fall meeting in St. Petersburg, Fla., was the idea of a spring preseason game.

“It is interesting,” NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said. “That (idea) was raised by a few clubs. It is more in the context of what colleges do with their spring game. It can be in the form of a scrimmage. It was an interesting concept that has been raised before and was discussed this morning by a number of people.”

Now the question is whether the league can make it work. Discussions will continue, ideas will be debated, and if the league believes a spring preseason game will help generate more interest, then there will be a spring preseason game.

One reporter then told Goodell, “You don’t want to give us an off-season, do you?”

“We know you don’t want one,” Goodell answered.