NFL to play regular season game in London
 

This is crap if you ask me. Why would any team give up a home game to travel 8 hours on a plane to play in London. Also, how how long off will the NFL give each team. In addition, I season ticket holders will still have to pay for 10 games.

I'll be shocked if it goes over well. Seems like the Brits are snobbish on sports. It's soccer, cricket, and sissy stuff like badminton.

Maybe it's a dumb question, but where do you live that has an NFL team that gets to host ten games in a year?

8 during the reg season and you pay for two pre-season.

8 + 2 = 10 (I think)

Exactly correct. When you buy season tickets you have to buy tickets to the 2 home pre-season games.

I think we will start to see more of this. Global economy, global sports. Basketball has tapped deep into the worldwide talent. I cant imagine that in the future the NFL would not try the same thing. Taking on the God of sports, Soccer (football).

oh, that's gay.

Speaking to both Euro and Pgardns' posts: I think it's ridiculous for them to have a regular season game out of the States! It cheapens the season and I think its not a wise business venture...It's not like Europe will start wearing NFL merchandise. Football will never replace soccer in the rest of the world. Props to TB for his post also!

The problem is that the dont play our style of football in Europe. I think the only other country to play out football is Canada.

If you think that is gay, you should see how much you have to pay for a PSL.

I don't see anything wrong with them playing a game (or two) a year outside the U.S.

The regular season game in Mexico City a couple years ago set the record for attendence at any NFL regular season game.

NFL Europa averages about 20,000 per game with something like 36,000 at the World Bowl. Not earth shattering but still, there are fans there.

It's all about TV revenue and ratings and if those go up everyone in the league benefits.

The NFL doesn't make too many strategic mistakes.

No they don't. But I think this is a huge blunder. Rumor has it that it is going to be Miami and New York Giants. I would be pissed to lose a home game.

NFL doesn't make mant strategic mistakes...how could they when they have Upshaw in their pocket? Ratings points...Whats an extra million viewers to a football telecast? Doesn't seem worth the trouble.

A million extra viewers, maybe not. But I read they hope to have an additional 60 Million viewers world-wide tune in to this game.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/othe...ll/6248825.stm

(3rd paragraph from bottom)

Why would this game attract 60 mm more viewers. Why cant they attract them without sending the game to London?

nfl trying to hit new pay per view markets.....but that home game shold be refunded.

I think it should count as a road game for both teams. That way each team still gets 10 home games and the season ticket holders arent screwed.

Are you planning on having them host college teams to make up for the imbalance of home games that would cause?

How would it cause an imbalance?

We spread baseball, basketball, the NFL wants more talent as much as any other team sport. You got to explore possible future markets. Im not saying Europe will fall in love with football, it has not in the past. But things change. Europeans are fond of physical violence in sports, the Rugby may not be enough.

Heck we are also stupid enough to give outrageous sums of money to a now mediocre soccer player to get soccer going, again?... I dont know how many times this has been tried and failed. Probe, probe and probe again. Then up through the ground comes a bubblin crude. Or the well is dry. Its a business decision.

Get used to it old timers, the world is joined by information. And now we have exploding economies in places we would not have imagined 30 years ago. Same goes for the entertainment industry, including sports.

There are 256 games played each season in the NFL with 256 home teams and 256 away teams. If you try and make one game count as a road game for both teams then you have an imbalance. You can take my word on that or you can spend your next week trying to draw up a balanced schedule where both teams that play in London are credited with an away game before coming to the realization that it isn't possible without another game where both teams count as the home team.

If you say so.

All you will need to do is to give those two teams an extra buy week--which they prob should do anyway.

So now they will only play 15 games or are you planning on expanding the season to 18 weeks so they can get 16 games and 2 bye weeks in which case everyone will get 2 bye weeks and we are right back where we started.

It is actually mathematically and logically impossible for two teams to both be the "away" team in the same game, and still have a balanced schedule. yep, it will cost someone a home game.

the explanation i heard on espn radio was. nfl is goin to europe to increase pp veiw and sell more gear. part of the reason given, nfl europe in germany is a big hit by europe standards. playing in london cuts the travel and uses the bigger stadium.
MY guess is that most of the attendence will be US Military personal ? if thats the case then good for the nfl.

teams will get the week off before they go and have home games when they get back. they figure the travel is not as bad as the pre-season game in japan. (which i think is a joke)

i agree with you guys, play the games in the usa.