2009 NFL Thread

[Mister J]

The London team would probably alternate between having 4-game home stands and road swings. Fantastic!

Europe would absolutely go crazy for the NFL brand. Forget about the failed WLAF/NFL Europe ventures; Look at that attendance for the Dolphins/Giants game a few years back! This idea is pure gold. It's brilliant.

No, really. It is.

 

[BlackLantern]

I don't know what your hearing over your side of the Pond but no ones demanding NFL over here. Sure it selling tickets but there no British public demanding we have games or teams over here by a long shoot.

good....let's keep it that way

 

[FaT_tONle]

Just because a couple of premiere league teams may sell out here doesn't mean a premiere league team could survive here an entire season unless the team is good right off the bat. But if the team sucks that would be devastating making up that revenue for a team situated overseas. Unless it's a franchise like the Yankees, or Cowboys, or Man U., but obviously those franchises ain't moving across the sea any time soon. Here's what Goodell needs to do. Go to the 17 game schedule once the new collective bargaining deal is in place (scrap the 18 game schedule)... add an extra bye to alleviate the travel and the injuries. Then schedule a handful of games in Europe, Canada, Mexico, Zimbabwua... wherever Goodell feels they need to take their product, and then you are set. I don't recommend it, but that's how I'd push it globally if I had no choice.

 

[Excel]

The team theyd move to London would have to be exciting...maybe if they could get the Calvin and Chris Johnson on the same team somehow...

 

[BlackLantern]

**** moving an NFL team to London...they need to quit with this globalization crap...just because the President is sucking the worlds **** doesn't mean the NFL has to

 

[Immortalfire]

**** moving an NFL team to London...they need to quit with this globalization crap...just because the President is sucking the worlds **** doesn't mean the NFL has to

You are reading my mind.

 

[Raiden]

**** moving an NFL team to London...they need to quit with this globalization crap...just because the President is sucking the worlds **** doesn't mean the NFL has to

What does this has to do with Obama?

 

[omid17]

it's already painfull having some regular season games played there

 

[Dr. Evil]

And yet, there will probably be an NFL team in Canada if Ralph Wilson dies and Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment wants to add the NFL to their sports empire that already includes the Maple Leafs, Raptors, Toronto FC and the Air Canada Centre.

 

[bunk]

**** moving an NFL team to London...they need to quit with this globalization crap...just because the President is sucking the worlds **** doesn't mean the NFL has to

Well, that's one way to lower the IQ of the thread.

 

[Addendum]

Even though no one in Europe, let alone the UK really want an NFL team, the league wouldn't be considering it if the attendance for the one game they decide to play over there had low attendance.

However, the league is a privately owned company as are the teams, aside from the Packers. We're simply consumers of their product.

 

[BlackLantern]

I just think, our morale as a country sucks right now, and giving one of our most awesome things (the NFL) away, isn't helping

 

[Addendum]

It is not the nation's decision, nor the government's decision, nor the fans decision. It is the NFL's decision alone. The only approval that is needed comes from the owners of the 31 teams, and a majority decision from the Packers' 100,000 some odd shareholders.

 

[BlackLantern]

if the owners have any decency, they'll make sure that an NFL team does not make it overseas

 

[Addendum]

It's not about decency, it's about making money.

 

[BlackLantern]

yea I know...being a capitalist pig-dog can be a downer sometime

 

[Addendum]

And right now, it's just rumors. If the league decides not to, business will continue on as usual.

 

[Fresh Prince]

Its called the NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE!!!! NOT THE UNITED STATES FOOTBALL LEAGUE!!!! NFL can have a team outside of USA if they want too...They just trying to get more money.

 

[The Game]

Why did the NFL decide to bring the Pats as the away team, it makes no sense to me, the bucs may be the 'home' team but they will not have the support

you don't see us over here demanding Premiereship games....you keep your sports, we'll keep ours

Don't be like that, you could have Stoke v Wigan @ Meadowlands Stadium, you guys would have a fun time

 

[Fresh Prince]

Pats/Bucs game playing in London? And why in games like this they have a home/away? Both teams are away.

 

[FaT_tONle]

Actually the Bucs give up a home game for this garbage. At least an odd number of games would make it feasible to play a game at a neutral site.

 

[StorminNorman]

The London team would probably alternate between having 4-game home stands and road swings. Fantastic!

Europe would absolutely go crazy for the NFL brand. Forget about the failed WLAF/NFL Europe ventures; Look at that attendance for the Dolphins/Giants game a few years back! This idea is pure gold. It's brilliant.

No, really. It is.

You are really trying to compare the interest in NFL Europe to a real NFL team?

Really!?

Europe IS interested in the NFL, look at the attendance of the every game in Europe, look at the success wherever it has gone internationally. What Europe wants, though, is the same thing Americans want: compelling product.

Look, how many cities didn't sell out second or fourth exhibition games? Should those teams not be allowed to have a team? Because they can't support NFL scrubs playing football against each other?

Now do I want an NFL team in Europe? I really don't think so. I think the traveling demand is too high, I would admit some sort of national pride, I am not sure which team I would want to remove from America - but the idea that Europe wouldn't support an NFL team, I believe, is based on incredibly faulty logic.

 

[Cmill216]

Why did the NFL decide to bring the Pats as the away team, it makes no sense to me, the bucs may be the 'home' team but they will not have the support

Because had it not been in London, it would've been a Bucs home game.

 

[signalman]

Wish the Commissioner would stop this London crap.
He needs to get his act together on a new agreement with the players.
That should be the Number 1 concern right now.

 

[The Game]

Because had it not been in London, it would've been a Bucs home game.

No I understand that, what I am trying to say is if the NFL is to take away the bucs actual home game why not schedule an international game against a team that is not as popular as the Patriots. The vast majority will be coming to see the Pats and the support they will get will make it seem like it is their home game.