Can the NFL work in London?

Can the NFL work in London?
What about elsewhere?

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Probably

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_Europe

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Why not expand to Mexico or Canada first ?

Logistically, Canada would be easy. They also have the fanbase. Most Mexican fans go for the cowboys, but give San Antonio a team and that'll change in two seconds.

If the NFL moves into Canada it would kill the CFL completely and I don't want to see the CFL killed off.

Canada has their own league.
if they can figure out a way to work the schedule so that they can group home and away games together and that anyone who goes to play in London gets a bye the following week it can work.

No thanks

No. Novelty could sustain it for like 2 games before it tanks.

Be better off giving a team to Birmingham

They would be killed by Alabama and Auburn

A choice was made in the waning years of the 19th century. The schoolboys of England were playing football and the graduates were taking with them all over the world.

Different schools played with different rules (codes), These codes mutated into Soccer and Rugby.

Rugby hit the East Coast prep schools and private colleges and mutated into our Football.

Respect the evolution.

Ban the MLS. Ban soccer like alcohol in Arabia. It doesn't belong. If soccer was meant for the US it would have taken root outside of girls and toddlers.

And Yuros, don't play our football. It's not for you. It'll never work. Play your soccer.

American expats and middle-class weirdos could probably just about keep an NFL franchise alive in London

No one normal cares about that shit though

>his NT team never made it to a World Cup final.
be mad and stay mad.

>the MLS

>Thinking NFL teams make money off ticket sales
All their money comes from TV deals. If the Jags can survive then so can a team in London

And not just in Britain, either. There are plenty of expats and weirdos in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Ireland who could all make the trip. Considering that there are only 8 home games a season, because the London Sillynannies will never make the playoffs, attendance shouldn't be a problem at all.

make another NFL europe league

then have one preseason game against those teams and 3 with other nfl teams

done

we´ll continue playing football Jeff
nobody care about hand egg here

Jesus who gives a shit. I wish they would stop sending games over there.

>Being this much against the free market determining the success rates of sports
Away, commie

No. They can create an entire new league for it, but in terms of having a Euro team, it would be fucked up. Teams already hate having to go there once a year since it fucks up training and such, so it being a more common occurance is eveb worse.

The Canadian government has actually opposed efforts to put a team in Toronto because they're culturally protectionist and are afraid the NFL will put the CFL out of business.

If they cared about inviting in the highest level of play, they might encourage multiple NFL teams in Canada, but they don't care about that. They care about playing up any minor perceived differences between Canada and the USA out of fear of subjugation/annexation. So the shitty minor league of NFL rejects that is the CFL gets to keep on keepin' on.

>They care about playing up any minor perceived differences between Canada and the USA out of fear of subjugation/annexation.

Is that still a realistic fear? Americans haven't wanted to annex Canada since Seward died.

English people are murricans in denial, so probably yes.

I don't know, but it's a fear I'd say their policies seem to indicate that they still have. The CBC was created to counter American media influence in Canada. They have a quota for songs of Canadian origin being played on each radio station. During the opening ceremony of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics they read a poem from a beer commercial that emphatically stated "WE SAY ZED NOT ZEE!!!!".

Funny enough, every Canadian province sans Quebec has a plan in place to be annexed by the US should the Canadian Government collapse

>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_Europe
Damn intolerant Euros, we took your washed up soccer players and made a league, you couldn't return the favor with our football?

How awesome would it be if the main big CFL teams were integrated into the NFL? Vancouver in the NFC West, Toronto in the East playing the Bills & Pats. Ect.

Would be pretty based DESU. Candian fans get hype. Imagine Edmonton & Calgary playing a playoff game? The place would melt.

Should work easily in London, nearly guaranteed considering spurs new stadium is absolutely set up for it, hope it gets finished soon so they can stop defiling twickenham and wembley.

Fuck knows about anywhere else.

Big and strong post

The only market really worth having is Toronto

Only if they played all their home games in a block

in the early 90s they tried to push hard for an european amerifat football league, plenty of teams from big cities (frankfurt galaxy, barcelona dragons, etc) but it didn't work out, not enough public interested. I even went to a few games in barcelona, it was a bore tbqh. My brother used to play in a local team (still have the helmet and pads around here)

Some of the teams and league still exist afaik but it's a very marginal sport with absolutely no coverage.

Kinda unrelated, one of barcelona dragons' stars (some shit amerifat that couldn't make it in the nfl) was years later found guilty of murder (shot the rich husband of the milf he was banging) and is now doing a life sentence without parole (she is in jail too)

Calgary?

No

Is this a thing, NFL games at Tottenham's new stadium?

I thought Wembley would want it to pay off the stadium quicker.

Not sure if it's the NFL who doesn't feel the facilities at Wembley are good enough or the FA not wanting to disturb the English national team too much
But yeah they're building it with the NFL in mind

How come a professional sports team won't work in London, which is 3500 miles from New York, but a college side from Tennessee will travel to Hawaii which is 4200 miles away?

There are two (2) countries in the world that play football and understand football: USA, Canada.

It'll be a hit in London because of the novelty, then fade fast.
Name another foreign intrusion into/addition to British culture that has survived -- I can't think of any, except Islam, maybe.

The CFL is the main problem for the NFL in Canada. NFL comes in, biggest CFL markets shut down, and that puts the smaller markets out of business - and then where would Manziel play?

College teams are more desperate

Yeah...no.

Is an NFL pitch the same size as a football pitch?

>but they don't care about that.
No, they don't. We don't. There's no college football industry here, our universities are for learning not providing billionaire NFL owners with employees.

Cheers!

Coca cola shaped the image of Father Christmas in England

Utter bullshit.
You just made that up, spell-checked "realistic" and "haven't", and posted.

I fail to understand why the college football matters here

These are some weird areguments tßh.

New White Hart Lane has a retractable artificial pitch in the plans, NFL sight lines, a completely unused MASSIVE american football sized dressing room on the opposite side of the pitch and various ways of combining the regular home and away ones into another MASSIVE dressing room.
Franchise has to be happening.

Wembley isnt ideal for NFL as they have to tarp off loads of seats in the lower tier, ruin the pitch and the dressing rooms and team areas are nowhere near big enough.
Same with twickenham, which also has the additional hindrance of being nigh on fucking inaccessible by public transport, and the RFU will want shot of the NFL sharpish anyway.

YOU LIVE BESIDE A tiny country called Mexico and they have invaded you to the tune of 12,000,000 and totally changed your culture.

How do you think we feel living beside a country 9x bigger than we are? We have a culture, and despite superficial similarities, it isn't the same as yours.
We like our culture just as much as you like yours.

Do you want more Mexican culture melding with American culture? Your politicians already have to speak Spanish, ffs. Our speak English and French but that's our the basis of our culture.
The foundation of yours is English, but the USa is now bilaingual - Spanish and English.

Don't you wish your government had acted before it got that way?

Adorable.

Feeder league for the NFL, haven't you noticed?

The idea that the CFL is minor to the NFL is almost universal
You're training NFL refs, aren't you?

>Yuros, don't play our football.
Don't worry, anybody who plays catchy catchy bulky nigger over here is laughed at thoroughly

have I just been banned?

How good is that stuff?

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wtf why has this guy been banned?

>Name another foreign intrusion into/addition to British culture that has survived

Tea.

Also, Indian, Italian and Chinese food.

The London Traps would have to play their first 4 and last 4 games of the season in America and the middle 8 in London. Assuming the NFL is okay with that, no reason it couldn't work.

Yes but it would be tedious, like someone mentioned they would have to play block style so the London team doesn't have to make more then one trip a year, may be two.

>4-Home/ 8-Away/ 4Home
1Trip

>2-Home/ 4-Away/ 4-Home/ 4-Away/ 2-Home
2Trips

The problem i think is the quick turn around expected of the players. 5-8 hour time zone differential is at least a slight disadvantage.

Could work easily.

Teams only play in london prior to a bye week.
London has a practice facility stateside and always plays at least 2 road games in a row in new freedomland.

>except islam maybe

DELET THIS!!!!

Wut
They play NFL at Wembley but that's a massive pitch
Could you play it in a normal English football(soccer) stadium?

Could they play on Monday/Thursday night football?
Sunday night football?

NFL playing field is 120 yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide

As long as those commie bastards stand for our flag.

No, because the sport is fundamentally American. It's a celebration of American-ness. Fireworks, grotesque corporate advertising, fat and black people, fans scoffing their faces after getting a "corndog" from the guys walking the aisles. It's a boring sport only kept alive by patriotism. Plus we already have an eggball game in rugby and that in itself is shit but still better.

Wembley pitch is a normal sized football pitch you mong.
It is literally the same size as my local town football ground which has one turnstile, a max capacity of 200 spectators and their first team plays in the 11th division or something ridiculous.

If the NFL can have regular season games at Wembley Stadium, and F1 can have races in various parts of the world, what's ASSCAR's excuse for not having races here in the UK?

...or too many turns in Silverstone for the inbred redneck subhumans in the US?

>don't you wish your country engaged in cultural paternalism on a federal scale instead of letting local populations speak and do what they want
No

A

watch Remember the Titans, srs

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No. Too far away to play Seattle. Too far away to sign free agents.

Just give them 6 random games a year for the ex-pats.

what is the best Islay stuff

I believe eventually the Bills move to Toronto.

It just makes dollar sense.

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What's the point in expanding to Mexico? How is the NFL going to make any money there?

It will happen. There's too much money associated with global expansion of a niche sport for it not to.

A Canadian team has just joined the English Rugby League Championship. My guess is it is a precursor/experiment into seeing whether an NFL team would work in London.

Maybe.

Travel is the log jam at this point.

There's a lot more issues than that

I just want Jacksonville to go. Such a trashy city.

Them & I want someone to build the Oakland A's a new stadium. Don't let a storied franchise play in filth any longer.

Namely?

>Can the NFL work in London?
No, it's played with pigskin.

Player contracts
Taxes
Free Agents
Scouting
Practices
They'll basically need to have 2 bases
Playoffs
Just to name a few

Not in London, but maybe in Germany. How quickly could a very very fast private jet, money no object, go from San Francisco to Hamburg/Berlin? Let's assume timelag is not a problem here and only worry about actual travel time.

>what is CIS hockey

your politicians already speak chinnese and punjabi you cuck
FUCKING

It would be too many teams though is the issue. Would be cool otherwise.

>tfw the montreal A's will be a thing in your lifetime

Staying in Oakland would be preferable, that park is horrifying & the someone needs to do something.

The fastest private jet on the planet goes that distance in 15 hours.

Pretty shit t.b.h. senpai

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BevMo my dude

>tfw im actaully scared that this will catch on cause hurr durr movies

The NFL should invest in a private Concorde it would be nice to see them fly again they could even call the team the London Concordes.