SB39
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If you think a team living out of hotels for weeks at a time solves the problem, you are sadly mistaken.no it wouldn't
the team would be an AFC east team, the dolphins would move to the NFC/Afc south, and Tampa/Jax would move to london
first off their schedule wouldn't be the same as a normal schedule. at the start of a season that would have a string of road games vs AFC east division opponents, this would be accomplished by having the team stay stateside, for those weeks.
And look how much complaining we see when the Patriots have to go west 3 times in a single season. Now imagine 8 trips where that is the shortest distance.Flights from the East coast are a smidge longer to london, then flights from the west coast to the east coast.
People who think a team based 3,000 miles away from the closest opponent can succeed are clearly just too naïve.It's easily doable, there would need to be some minor concessions made scheduling wise, but people that act like this is impossible clearly are just too sheltered.
All of the above says nothing of the fact that not a single free agent would ever choose to go to London if they had a similar offer in the U.S. Any team based in London would have to significantly overpay any free agent it wanted. How do you propose to solve that? Give London a higher cap number than everyone else?