i think it would be cool to have a NFL team in London.
Forget the teams going to play there. Would be harder for the London team going back and forth.
But one of the things that soccer has right, is having countries play against each other.
A team in England is just weapons grade stupid.
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Draft
1st round— Cooper Dejean CB
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Which is the only way to solve the travel problem, because you can fly between any two Western European points in a couple hours, and it's mostly north/south, so jet lag's negligible. It's also the best way to develop rivalries and popular interest in both the sport generally and individual games particularly.
Yet, as much as I'd like to see the NFL return to a 2X3X5 alignment, moving NFL teams is probably a bad idea. They'd be far better off developing native talent, maybe skip a draft altogether and recruit national teams to play in a European league for a European championship, like the IFAFs European branch already does. Keep the Björn Werners and Håvard Ruglands as elite talents around which to build interest in and loyalty to European gridiron teams, then maybe 10-20 years later we'll reach a level where a transatlantic Super Bowl's feasible.
One thing that MIGHT work in conjunction would be borrowing FIFAs relegation/promotion practice: Keep 30 NFL teams and demote each conferences worst one to the European league, while promoting teams contesting the European championship. At first there'd be a lot of back and forth every year, but it would eventually stabilize (especially if the relegated/promoted teams played each other) and soon after a true WORLD Championship between the US and European champs would be possible. I must concede though that part of why I like this idea is that the Jags and Browns should've been relegated long ago.
Oh, valid point. I thought you meant all starters, you should take the time to be more descriptive, don't be shy. —Jaded
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Bill Williamson:
"The Broncos went from one of the more attractive organizations in the NFL to one in total disarray. McDaniels will go down as one of the most reviled figures in Denver sports history".
yeah - but it changed it and was still a commercial success.
You know i don't support this London Team argument - but i hate empty and shallow statements like "N stands for national" as a means to refute the London team - there are a million good reasons not to have a london team, the title of NFL is not one of them
The NBA and NHL have teams in Canada, so that right there renders that argument pointless.
I don't mind teams in Canada. Still in North America.
That's it.... The North American Football League. NAFL !!
Bill Williamson:
"The Broncos went from one of the more attractive organizations in the NFL to one in total disarray. McDaniels will go down as one of the most reviled figures in Denver sports history".
Does this mean we must go back to snapping with our feet or stop calling it "football"?
Oh, valid point. I thought you meant all starters, you should take the time to be more descriptive, don't be shy. —Jaded
Never confuse frustrated candor and disloyal malice.
Love can't be coerced. —Me
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