Thread: If this saints dolphins game is what they are selling to Europe! Wow...

This what GEM talking about lol

is he smoking on the field? I bet he smoking on that play.

Originally Posted by ShaneFalco

This what GEM talking about lol

Yeah, I saw that at the time too. He is an *******. No other way to put it. Thank God Mcdaniels got rid of poopy pants when he did.

Oooops, did I just stir things up?

Hands on hips, I'm not used at all in this play. Nice.

Originally Posted by Broncoknight30

Just one more thing about American culture that is being systematically taken apart.

Lol this is a BIT dramatic.

Keep gettin dem checks, Jay!

The London games are WLaugh all over again: Send the worst players somewhere most people can't tell a WR from a NT, then wonder why no one pays to watch them. Answer: Same reason no one HERE pays to watch them, PLUS a healthy dose of having no predisposition toward gridiron football or even a vague notion of what our rejects are trying but failing to do. At least Europe sent us Beckham: He may have been past his prime—but at least he'd HAD one.

To top it all off, in the UK there are a ton of rugby fans, and rugby is literally what American football was before we legalized the forward pass. All the complaints about the rules sissifying a game of rugged MEN? From where they sit, we did that in 1905. Everyone who'd pay $200/seat to watch waiver wire rejects play flag football, raise your hand. Now, given that we're talking about folks to whom gridiron football is largely foreign: How much would you pay to watch them play soccer...?

Pete Rozelle knew how to market his product, because he (and many of the owners) earned that knowledge the hard way in the NFLs early years, when college football ruled the roost and the pros routinely scheduled extra games just because more gate receipts were their sole hope of making payroll. Their spoiled successors not only have no clue how to expand the NFLs audience, but have actually found a number of potent ways to diminish it.

If the owners really want to make this work (without having to sacrifice several of their cash cows by PERMANENTLY relocating them to Europe) they should follow Rozelles MNF model: Take the biggest games each week of October and November to Wembley. They won't do that because they don't want to lose the mountain of US prime time revenue they get; too bad.

Maybe it's too much to expect divisional games in London (that would only be fair if BOTH meetings were there, which would at least give the British fans an idea of what was at stake in the rematch.) But interconference games between dogs like Jax vs. SF and Miami vs. NO? If Americans won't buy tickets to see that crap, why would Brits? If the owners were REALLY serious about this, well, neither teams fans get many tickets even in the US, and the SB is supposed to be at a neutral site, so....