re: How would an NFL team in London even work?

It's not really a question of "will it work or not".

Goodell wants it, so it's going to happen.

There really isnt much a travel time difference between East Coast teams going to London or Seattle, yet I dont hear anyone bitching about why we have an NFL team in Seattle.

How many road West Coast games would this London team play a year? One? Maybe two?

The travel excuse for not having a team in London is bogus.

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Thats the issue. That team is fricked. No one wants to play on that team. No one wants to coach that team.

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You could not be any more wrong. People would want to play and coach there.

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How would an NFL team in London even work?
Would they play the first 8 games on the road all in the US and then the last 8 in London, and have a facility in the US?

Or would they have a normal schedule, and just basically be guaranteed to never be good due to travel constraints?

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Really are you too dense to figure it out? All you have to do is build a practice center that is big enough for 2 teams or build 2 practice centers or work out a deal with one of the many pro soccer teams and use their facilites for the visiting team. Have a visting team play an east coast team and then play to London after that game. Spend the week and practice in London and then fly home. It should not be a major problem unless it is a west coast team in which case you let them play on monday night the following week so they have an extra day to get over jet lag. The flight from Miami to Seattle is 7 hours. London to any east coast city is 8-9hrs and london to dallas is 10 hours and London to Chicago is 9 hours and these are flights on charter jets its not like they are flying Spirit or anything.


Then keep up the US practice facility of the relocating team and schedule 2-3 week road trips when they play in the US.

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Really are you too dense to figure it out? All you have to do is build a practice center that is big enough for 2 teams or build 2 practice centers or work out a deal with one of the many pro soccer teams and use their facilites for the visiting team. Have a visting team play an east coast team and then play to London after that game. Spend the week and practice in London and then fly home. It should not be a major problem unless it is a west coast team in which case you let them play on monday night the following week so they have an extra day to get over jet lag. The flight from Miami to Seattle is 7 hours. London to any east coast city is 8-9hrs and london to dallas is 10 hours and London to Chicago is 9 hours and these are flights on charter jets its not like they are flying Spirit or anything.


Then keep up the US practice facility of the relocating team and schedule 2-3 week road trips when they play in the US.

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All this plus London gets a bye the week before each of their two trips to the states.

You all are forgetting about teams going through customs, players with criminal backgrounds being allowed into the country, the effect of earning money overseas on players on away teasm traveling to play there. International travel to Canada is one thing, overseas is another.

I'm sure the details could be worked out but the player's association will (should) resist this. The NFLPA is already loading up for bear and going to go to war with Goodell the way it is, does the NFL really want to put this on the table too?

Especially considering before the NFL expanding to Europe there are cities in North America that would be interested in teams, Toronto and Montreal in Canada to name two, and probably a few more located here in the U.S. that could support teams.

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You could not be any more wrong. People would want to play and coach there.

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Don't project your willingness to do it onto the players. I'd jump at the chance, but if I recall correctly, the players were not on board when asked.

You have to remind yourself where they come from. The idea of living internationally is not appealing to people from that background. Plus moving family members who REALLY wouldn't want to go. Yikes

But as always, money talks and bullshite walks. They will go if shown the money.

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While I agree, there are also a bunch of teams out there who need this. I wish a team of accountants and economists could make fair salary caps in all leagues.

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I agree on the surface, but there are inequalities in damn near every variable that comes into free agency.

For instance, should Miami get a downward adjustment to their cap for no state income taxes, another downward adjustment for being in Miami in general, but then an upward adjustment for having to play in a 28 year old stadium?

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Would they play the first 8 games on the road all in the US and then the last 8 in London, and have a facility in the US?

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That would make the most sense

But you could argue they'd have a significant home field advantage.

Only way I could see it working would be they play 8 games in the U.S. (and would have to have a facility here), have a bye week after week 8 and return to London.

To make it fair to the other teams they would only play there after their own bye week on a Friday or Saturday to give them ample time to return home.

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London? No shot

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it's definitely going to happen, it's just a question of when.