Chargers Being Discussed as a Team to move to London

[JarOfMayo51]

The league is trying to expand their TAM.....Fans be damned.

TAM= television advertising money?

 

[jah]

sigh

The UK is about the size of NY state and more than half as big as the state of CA.

I don't think that's true. It's definitely smaller than Rhode Island.

 

[TheAdultintheRoom]

What's a good name for a London team? I'll take the low hanging fruit and suggest London Limeys.

 

[TinhWoodhead]

they’d have to change the NFL to IFL

 

[borg]

1 I wonder if the NFLs plans to go international like soccer played a role in Brady retiring? The season is long and hard enough already without expansion.

2 The NFL has had plans to go global for some time. The 2008 recession derailed movement in that direction. I fear that the NFL may go the way of the NHL with too many teams and dilute the product.

3. London can absolutely support an NFL franchise. Interest in the game is there. Fans are coming out for the games. Did anyone else see the crowd outside the London stadium last Sunday? Once you have a NFL foundation in London, the next logical move is to place a team in a rival city. Germany? France? Who do the British hate?

4. The Mafia would be proud of the NFLs heavy handed tactics. Taxpayers are held up at gunpoint with a choice - risk losing the team or approve a new NFL stadium in the millions. In some cases then pay for PSLs in the thousands to see the team play in the stadium that they just bought. Then they have the luxury if buying tickets.

5. The NFL giveth football and the NFL taketh away. Play hardball with them and you lose. The NFL will pull the shrubs out of the ground at the current team location and move them to the shiny new stadium. You will be left with nothing. They dont care how far back the team history goes. SD might come around to the NFLs way of thinking after a few years without NFL football. Cleveland and Houston did. St Louis did to an extent after losing the Cardinals.

1) You seriously wonder if Brady would retire because he might have to fly to London every few years?
Why would a star who has has been building his brand internationally for 2 decades end his career because he might have to go the most important international city in the world.
Flights to China, Brazil, Costa Rica, Monaco, Wyoming, Cali, etc etc etc yearly.... no problem for TB......but London?.... “I’m done!”

2) Potential diluted product?
Can it get any worse?
8 game extended preseason turns into 9.... as long as the expansion team doesn’t have a running QB......Pats will be OK.

 

[RobertWeathers]

TAM= television advertising money?

Total Addressable Market...

But what you said is also true

 

[TheAdultintheRoom]

The kid in me thinks this would be really cool for some reason. However, it's clearly fraught with all kinds of logical problems and the possibility for unintended consequences. If international influence starts to change the game in meaningful ways, we American fans aren't going to like it. I know that would be way down the road, but going to London is the first step on that path.

 

[tasmlab]

Curious: what percentage of the UK roster would still be from the USA? Probably all/most.

 

[Triumph]

1) You seriously wonder if Brady would retire because he might have to fly to London every few years?
Why would a star who has has been building his brand internationally for 2 decades end his career because he might have to go the most important international city in the world.
Flights to China, Brazil, Costa Rica, Monaco, Wyoming, Cali, etc etc etc yearly.... no problem for TB......but London?.... “I’m done!”

2) Potential diluted product?
Can it get any worse?
8 game extended preseason turns into 9.... as long as the expansion team doesn’t have a running QB......Pats will be OK.

Vacation destinations have no relation to an NFL season of travel unless you take vacations that last about 3 days including travel. Do you actually believe that its easy to fly across the Atlantic ocean and play a game of football? NFL expansion makes an already difficult season more challenging. A 43 year old QB might not want to take on that challenge at this juncture of his career. Most important international city. Who cares?

The 32 team franchise structure now is about perfect. The NFL is hell bent of more franchises and thats going to ruin the product.

 

[TheAdultintheRoom]

The London team is going to need to have like 8 straight home games followed by 8 straight road games. Or at the very least 4/4/4/4.

 

[fnordcircle]

Hopefully I didn't miss it in the thread already.

 

[Triumph]

Winston Churchill would have made a damn good NFL Head Coach.

 

[mgteich]

A second team could be placed in manchester or Liverpool or even in Dublin.

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3. London can absolutely support an NFL franchise. Interest in the game is there. Fans are coming out for the games. Did anyone else see the crowd outside the London stadium last Sunday? Once you have a NFL foundation in London, the next logical move is to place a team in a rival city. Germany? France? Who do the British hate?
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[PatsFanInLondon]

The London team is going to need to have like 8 straight home games followed by 8 straight road games. Or at the very least 4/4/4/4.

It would have to be 4 road, 8 home, 4 road to keep the bye weeks reasonable.

I enjoy the games in London (Tottenham’s new stadium is a phenomenal venue), but I’ve stated many times on here that I’m against a franchise here full time. It just ruins the integrity of the league.

The players wouldn’t relocate here - pre season training would be in the US and they’d probably only stay here for a couple of months for the home games.

I think UK based fans would adopt a London team as their second team. The games here do sell out (the only one that hasn’t was the Rams v Bengals snoozefest a couple of weeks ago), so I don’t think selling tickets would be a problem.

But overall? It shouldn’t happen. We’re lucky enough to get the games we get already.

 

[mgteich]

I don't think that's true. It's definitely smaller than Rhode Island.

Are there any US states that are size comparable to England? - Quora

 

[mgteich]

How about a second team in Liverpool or Manchester?

It would have to be 4 road, 8 home, 4 road to keep the bye weeks reasonable.

I enjoy the games in London (Tottenham’s new stadium is a phenomenal venue), but I’ve stated many times on here that I’m against a franchise here full time. It just ruins the integrity of the league.

The players wouldn’t relocate here - pre season training would be in the US and they’d probably only stay here for a couple of months for the home games.

I think UK based fans would adopt a London team as their second team. The games here do sell out (the only one that hasn’t was the Rams v Bengals snoozefest a couple of weeks ago), so I don’t think selling tickets would be a problem.

But overall? It shouldn’t happen. We’re lucky enough to get the games we get already.

 

[PatsFanInLondon]

How about a second team in Liverpool or Manchester?

If any other city in Western Europe should get a franchise, it should be Frankfurt.

 

[Patjew]

I don't think that's true. It's definitely smaller than Rhode Island.

True. We’re bigger than we look.

 

[PatsFanInVa]

What's a good name for a London team? I'll take the low hanging fruit and suggest London Limeys.

We've established it'll be the JETE move to Liverpool, so I'm going with the Scousers. No "Liverpool," just "Scousers NFLFC" (on accounta redundancy)

But since there are those who will disagree, and/or post mocking GIFs, let me offer some additional choices:

Football Actually
Third and 1066
The Old England Patriarchs
Richard the Lions Cut Me
The Bloomsbury Group
Herman's Helmets
Field Gaol
The Spotted ****
We Have National Health and I Don't Care What Propaganda You Read it Works Yanktard

 

[TheAdultintheRoom]

True. We’re bigger than we look.

It's not the size of the state, it's the magic that's in it.