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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.You're such a homer. Wait, wwwwhhhaaaaat.....????Keep the NFL in America. Say 'no' to a British franchise.
Soccer has as much chance of overtaking the NFL in the USA as it does overtaking AFL in Australia. Sweet **** all.I'd love it if we had a team in London, the NFL needs to get to the world stage if it hopes to compete with soccer which is going to grow in popularity by leaps and bounds. Globalization is the key to any sports survival over the next century.
Screw the logistics aspect, it'd be fun.
Soccer has as much chance of overtaking the NFL in the USA as it does overtaking AFL in Australia. Sweet **** all.
Unless you plan on inventing teleporting or re-imagining the Concord, I suggest you find a more applicable quote."Computers will never need more than 640k of RAM" -Bill Gates.
I'd love it if we had a team in London, the NFL needs to get to the world stage if it hopes to compete with soccer which is going to grow in popularity by leaps and bounds. Globalization is the key to any sports survival over the next century.
Screw the logistics aspect, it'd be fun.
There's nothing "easy" about playing a grueling football schedule where your shortest trip is over 3,000 miles and 5 time zones.
It may work financially, but it would be a disaster competitively.
Some good thoughts there but having each team play in London after their bye would, theoretically, put the London team at a competitive disadvantage, no? Each team playing them would have extended time to prepare, rest and get healthy, which is considered an advantage. Would it make more sense to have teams play in London before their bye instead, as the NFL does now?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.
Once the bye's start happening the London team has a string of home games. Every team that flies over to play London, does so the week AFTER their bye, this gives the away teams a week to fly to London and prepare in the new time zone.
The biggest hurdle is going to be when the London team gets matched vs an NFC/AFC west opponent on the road, but that gets countered by an AFC/NFC west opponent having to play in London as well.
Flights from the East coast are a smidge longer to london, then flights from the west coast to the east coast.
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.
Poor analogy."I think the MLB is doing just fine in their current model." -someone else 50 years ago.