The NFL isn't actually going to do this, right?

The NFL isn't actually going to do this, right?
They aren't that stupid

They play 4 games a year there and it sells out at Wembley (stadium of 90,000 iirc) every time, is it really so crazy to play 8 games a year there in a much smaller stadium (Tottenham's new one, with about 50,000 seats)?

They have been doing it for like 5 years

I don't understand the "football isn't popular outside of America" meme, because it is.

It really isn't, but it has enough of a following to support a team in a handful of foreign countries (Canada, Mexico, and the UK).

Fuck overseas
It's our sport and ours only

It really is, and it's growing every year too.

>I don't understand the "football isn't popular outside of America" meme, because it is.

Don't be so bitter that your people are falling to our imperialism, abo

How delusional do you have to be to think NFL is anywhere near globally popular. Soccer in American is many times more popular than niggercollide is in other countries, yet you claim that nobody cares about soccer. Nobody in Australia outside the Haynefags cares about the NFL, literally nobody in Asia cares about NFL and it's niche in Europe.

Stay in your lane DaMarius Sanchez.

He says this the same year as a big money exhibition between a mediocre college team and a real shitty one

handegg is basically the hipster sport of choice here. it's not very popular, but still popular enough to fill wembley every year due to the novelty factor. plus the fact that most of europe is only a stone's throw away from london.

Stay bitter

Says the pubdweller

It's definitely happening. They've already made a deal for a stadium, the NFL are desperate to do it and the UK Chancellor has just recently supported it.

As far as fanbase, London has a huge Yank/aussie/rich Arab population who would go. Add to that people from all over the UK heading along, and yuros making a one off trip, it's not at all hard for 40-50k people for 8 games.

That's not gonna be nearly enough
There's a ton of expenses involved so the team's gonna need near 80k to at least as profitable for it to work

>hipster
replace that with 'fat autists who work in accounts and IT help desks' and you could be on to something

>there will be a London Redcoats/New England Patriots super bowl in your lifetime

>the UK Chancellor has just recently supported it.

Who are we to defy the political heavyweight and authority on British sport that is George Osbourne?

Not to mention only 3 teams averaged less than 60k
One was in a temporary stadium, one relocated and the other is Oakland

Well there is an interest in the UK for american NFL

But its insignificant compared to football

The stadium has a maximum of 60k I'm sure.

>The 2nd most important person in UK politics
>Not an authority

Please tell me this was pretending to be retarded.

Again, the NFL are going through with this knowing it is in a 60k stadium. They are clearly willing to take the risk for the potential widening of the market.

>yfw London team plays without tv time outs

They are going to do it, and they are that stupid. They think they're too big to fail.

If you're an AFC East fan you're fucked because they're guaranteed going to put it in that division. I assume they'd move the Jags, swap the Fins to AFC South, and put the London team in the AFC East. Both because it's the division with the easiest travel for all the remaining teams (even though going to London every year is fucking stupid) and because Kraft is a massive shill for this idea and will probably volunteer for it.

The only other way that works would to be to move Dallas out of the NFC East in a realignment and put London there with NY/Philly/Washington, but they're not going to change the NFCE.

he's not an authority on sport, he's a fucking public school boy

It's why it's a stupid idea
No way this bring enough money in to cover the costs

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this desu also 'lads' who weren't good enough to get into the rugby team

London will never get a team. No player is going to want to play there because of the retarded tax laws in the UK and the logistics would be too much of a pain in the ass

Don't forget poser faggots in love with murrican culture.

Rugby players would never cut it in the NFL. They're too small and slow

>Rugby Union front row lads are too small

topkek

>too small to be a linebacker

my point still stands

The BBC does the superbowl every year without ads and it's the most excruciating thing ever. They get in random fucks who know nothing about the sport, or play little videos explaining it. My dad and I did the CBS stream at a lower quality instead of HD on our tv.

He's an authority on what happens in the country you literal retard

yeah a US coverage is best indeed.

but still cool they will do more in London, defo will go visit on of the games.

Lol, they sound exactly like non-latinos in the US who like soccer.

actually average guys on the front row in rugby union tend to be larger than the average nfl linebacker

they don't look it

with the budget maybe, we don't live in a communist dictatorship lad

A few positions could make it as running backs, returners and kickers/punters. The taller number 8s and flanker could make it as defensive backs

It'll probably will happen eventually, but not right now. The NFL will move a team to London, they'll have a few middling to bad seasons, Europeans will lose interest, players will be mentally exhausted from all of the transatlantic flights, and the team will eventually close shop once the NFL realizes it's a net loss for them.

I honestly don't think a team in London can work in the long-term without at least one international division to go along with it, but the interest in the sport simply isn't there to support 4-8 teams in Europe and it won't be there for a very long time.

Sadly we are cucks to US corporations - we've been brainwashed by all your crap TV shows and high school movies, some of our kids pretend to talk with American accents. It's embarassing but exactly what American Multinational Corporations want (making money is more important than culture, self-respect, tradition etc.)

We also have a government who will sell anything not nailed down to try to make themselves more economically competent than they are. We had the Chinese flag flying over Buckingham Palace earlier this year so that the Chinese would invest in a nuclear power station where they will be subsidized for every watt of energy produced by British tax payers.

Add autists and clever marketing to the mix and hey-ho, UK hand egg team that 95% of the country couldn't give a shit about.

It's like the most pathetic, niche interest there is.

It's like MLS in America, but more obscure and niche because there's literally only one match a year here. Or is it three now, still it only happens one time a year in London so 99% of people don't even know anything about it

>some of our kids pretend to talk with American accent
can we swap for the fight and win guy?

>some of our kids pretend to talk with American accents
we'll trade you for the retards who pretend to talk with British accents here

This is actually a good point with the taxes. Players would get fisted in taxes.

They need to start playing games in continental countries. Germany and Austria have really big gridiron markets.

The UK has a following but the sports market is too over saturated.

>this guy scared of getting beat by the london sillynannies

Well they only have a "big" gridiron market because of the American soldiers stationed there, most of their players are half American military babies and their families go to watch, the typical German only cares about Football/Soccer and F1.

The NFL doesn't about which country likes it more, they care about where they are going to make the most money and throw the biggest spectacle which will always be London.

doesn't care about*

And they said America isn't relevant outside the US. They said American sports aren't relevant outside the US

Here's a news flash Yuropoors, we're relevant whether you can admit it or not. Only a matter of time we ram America's pastime, baseball and our NBA bbc's down your throat too But >muh culture!! >muh heritage!! Doesn't matter, we're coming for those shekels

I think they already host NBA games in London but the only people that care about it are blacks who pretend they're American.

Tell me about the Americans, why do they always talk about cock. And big black ones in particular?

>And they said America isn't relevant outside the US.

Nobody has ever said this.

This. I like the NFL, but gridiron is easily my least favourite code of football. It fills Wembley a few times a year with novelty and spectacle but a UK NFL team would have very little support really. Also, it would be very hard to attract players because our sports work so differently. The NFL draft system is totally alien to British sports.

Because they aren't wearing 50lbs of equipment, genius.

Because the Sup Forums memes have infected my mind like an AIDS filled BBC

Yuropoors say it all the time because they try to deny reality by living in their delusional fantasy world

Premier League teams completely sell out stadiums for pre-season matches in the USA, it doesn't really mean that the average American cares at all. It's the same thing when US sports play here.

I want britbong sandniggers to fuck off from my sport next thing you know theyll try to put fly emirates and qatar airways on team jerseys

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The fact is that the US is infinitely more relevant than your damp, depressing island on a global scale. Why can't Yuropoors just face reality?

Better than having your players be walking billboards

Besides those are american businesses not arab companys the owners suck up to.

and you're a basement dweller who'll never accomplish anything. what's your point?

I'll take a small barely noticeable shirt sponsor than advert breaks literally every 2-5 minutes.

Isn't the NBA going to have adverts on their shirts from 2017? I can't imagine it will that long until it creeps into other US sports, it's all about the money.

The jetlag seems like an issue. Would lower the variance in win / loss for UK teams

THE NBA plans on doing the exact same thing, yet it still has all the other ads shit your sports have. Your NFL training jerseys also have sponsors on them. Enjoy your walking billboards inbetween all the ad breaks and commentator ad lines.

please keep it, i really dont want this sport shitting up the place

Don't say this

The entire purpose behind pro sports is to make money
Nothing more, nothing less
Do you really think it has some higher purpose?

Went to a game last year just for the hell of it, didn't understand a damn thing that was going on. Stadium was full of expats, travelling yuropoors and brit hipster cunts - it was good night if I'm being completely honest with you lads, more due to atmosphere than the game

this country has become a discrace

American football is one of, if not the worst sport to watch live to be honest. Glad you enjoyed it though

yes herschel tell those goys

The whole world is cucked by the US tbd

so what american sports are good to see?

It actually isn't

It is seen outside the US as a spectacle not a Sporting event you'll want to spend money on weekly

Almost like the soccer events we get that involve international teams

Football is fantastic live. What the hell are you talking about?

There's so much tension and intensity.

It actually is, and it's growing every year too.

Out of all the major 4 sports

Football is the least social , regular season most boring , most annoying to attend

Playoff football is pretty great , better than basketball playoffs that's for sure

Maybe it's just a knicks thing who knows

In Britian ? Because I can't think of anywhere else beside Canada but they're typical fans of a NFC north team or Seahawks

Mexico doesn't seem to care about American football and they love our baseball and basketball leagues

Latin America in general doesn't seem to care

Probably all of Europe outside of the uk doesn't seem to care

Germany has a pretty big following with professional teams.

There are other pro leagues throughout continental europe. It's possible for the sport to become successful in Europe, just not through the NFL.

Not a problem, they have steroids in Europe I'm sure

I thought Jarryd Hayne was supposed to be some sort of rugby super star and he couldn't do it.

You either have to play your entire life or be a freak to succeed in the NFL.

>I thought Jarryd Hayne was supposed to be some sort of rugby super star
Not really, he's a decent Rugby League (different to union, which is the main code here) player but far from a super star.

Thats funny. Those are the people who like "soccer" in our country.

Need to go to nipland desu senpai

Hockey
Baseball if you want a chill, comfy day
NFL with all its stoppages is complete ass live

its not that popular but i think it could be a meme and fill a stadium 8 times a year better than the jags can

>tfw I like soccer in the US since I played it in high school
>all these fucking euraboos who try and force yuro singing and scarves in fucking california

KEKED

>furpuck

Don't listen to that guy
He's clearly delusional

have you listened to UK commentary
they don't understand the sport

Yep. A soccer pundit and a soccer manager did the BBC coverage this year. Embarrassing

Would like to hear lol. I hope it's on YouTube

Why is everyone so opposed to this? I think it sounds pretty sweet and fun. If you don't watch football/handegg, then chill out.
I'm a fan and I'll stick to my lions but it sounds like a cool scheme.

hockey hockey hockey hockey. Tune in now for the stanley cup ploffs, were the play is much faster and more exciting.

yesterday I watched a few minutes of the Euroleague 3rd place game
fuck they don't understand basketball either; they called everything a "turnover" cuz they couldn't figure out what was actually going on

not that the game was good enough to deserve good commentary. it was horrible
but at least if they got a few NBA (or nfl; it doesn't matter it's the same problem for both sports) vets to do commentary then in a few years the fans would understand what american fans actually care about: arguing over what constitutes a completed pass

>furpuck

what about it

It's not sadly, but maybe you can find it somewhere else. They're Mark Chapman and Martin O'Neill respectively

It's ok man. American soccer commentators are much better but still sound weird to us

what I like about american soccer commentators is that they all are clearly former players
but the crowds at mls games are embarrassing to be around they don't know the sport at all
ive never heard fake british accents anywhere else in my life, except at mls games, where they happen every fifteen minutes