OT: 2 games in the U.K. next year - New England Patriots Forums

Batman · 12-13-2009, 03:44 PM

Just announced by Alistair Kirkwood on NFL live on sky sports 2. teams unknown until after schedule is sorted one game will be inter divisional. I doubt this will affect the pats unless bills or jets come visit our shores My hope is that both come over for the inter divisional game.

BritPat · 12-13-2009, 03:47 PM

Kirkwood hopes that one of them will be somewhere else other than Wembley, but there's only really two other stadiums in the UK that could host a game 0 the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, and Hampden Park in Glasgow.

Batman · 12-13-2009, 03:59 PM

Hampden Park only holds just over 50,000 no way it's there Murrayfield or Twickenham are better Old Trafford has the capacity not sure about pitch size though.

efin98 · 12-13-2009, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by BritPat

Kirkwood hopes that one of them will be somewhere else other than Wembley, but there's only really two other stadiums in the UK that could host a game 0 the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, and Hampden Park in Glasgow.

Manchester was another one discussed alongside Glasgow IIRC...playing in Old Trafford might make more sense since it has a decent capacity and the owner of the stadium also owns one of the NFL teams

***pats1*** · 12-13-2009, 06:09 PM

Not quite yet:

League says reports of two England games in 2010 are premature | ProFootballTalk.com

Batman · 12-13-2009, 06:22 PM

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Not quite yet:

League says reports of two England games in 2010 are premature | ProFootballTalk.com

I think I would believe what Kirkwood said over a site with poor reporting. I doubt Kirkwood would have announced it without it being confirmed he would probably loose his job as MD of NFL UK if it was not signed up he said that 2 teams have agreed to give up games.
Later in the show a viewer emailed in to say that apparently the 49er were one of the teams as he apparently knower the owner of the 49ers and is a fan of them himself.

***pats1*** · 12-13-2009, 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Batman

I think I would believe what Kirkwood said over a site with poor reporting. I doubt Kirkwood would have announced it without it being confirmed he would probably loose his job as MD of NFL UK if it was not signed up he said that 2 teams have agreed to give up games.
Later in the show a viewer emailed in to say that apparently the 49er were one of the teams as he apparently knower the owner of the 49ers and is a fan of them himself.

I wouldn't say PFT is a site with "poor reporting."

Besides, if you took the time to read the story, you would have seen it was based off a quote from the official NFL spokesman.

So, really what you're saying is you would believe Kirkwood over the NFL.

Big-T · 12-13-2009, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by pats1

I wouldn't say PFT is a site with "poor reporting."

Besides, if you took the time to read the story, you would have seen it was based off a quote from the official NFL spokesman.

So, really what you're saying is you would believe Kirkwood over the NFL.

Kirkwood works for the NFL.

NickOGS20 · 12-13-2009, 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by efin98

Manchester was another one discussed alongside Glasgow IIRC...playing in Old Trafford might make more sense since it has a decent capacity and the owner of the stadium also owns one of the NFL teams

Pitch size at Old Trafford isn't big enough sadly.

***pats1*** · 12-13-2009, 06:42 PM

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Kirkwood works for the NFL.

Greg Aiello works for the NFL too. He's a Senior Vice President.

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"We've been saying for quite some time that we are considering playing two games in London next season," Aiello said via e-mail, "but nothing has been scheduled yet."