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Batman 12-13-2009 03:44 PM
OT: 2 games in the U.K. next year
 
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
Re: O.T. 2 games in the U.K. next year
 
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
Re: O.T. 2 games in the U.K. next year
 
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
Re: O.T. 2 games in the U.K. next year
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by BritPat (Post 1639464)
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
Re: OT: 2 games in the U.K. next year
 
Not quite yet:

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

Batman 12-13-2009 06:22 PM
Re: OT: 2 games in the U.K. next year
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by pats1 (Post 1639749)
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
Re: OT: 2 games in the U.K. next year
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Batman (Post 1639787)
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
Re: OT: 2 games in the U.K. next year
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by pats1 (Post 1639801)
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
Re: O.T. 2 games in the U.K. next year
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by efin98 (Post 1639699)
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
Re: OT: 2 games in the U.K. next year
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Big-T (Post 1639806)
Kirkwood works for the NFL.
Greg Aiello works for the NFL too. He's a Senior Vice President.

Quote:
"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."


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