Kraft Says London Is Ready For A Team

[wr50l]

Scott Zolak was on the radio during the pre-game and he was asked about this. He said the newspaper has a 20 page spread and you have to go to page 18 to find anything related to the NFL. The Patriots didn't have an official practice, they walked out of their hotel and went across the street to Hyde Park in the wide open to do their walkthrough and nobody even bothered them.. London won't give a shit about the NFL anytime soon.

I guess the owners who have created an absolute hegemony of a sports league already and could probably be trusted to have an idea of what's going on in their own expansion plans ... well they must be barking up the wrong tree then. Those silly buggers have only gone and given us even more NFL games from now on, so they must be paying too much attention to those insane viewership growth rates which mean nothing.

[Point Blank]

It would suck playing for that squad, butt loads of traveling every week. No bueno..

[Warner2BruceTD]

People act as if flying to London is like flying to the moon.

"OMG HOW ARE TEAMS GOING TO MAKE THAT FLIGHT EVERY WEEK OMG"

It's not all that different than flying from the west coast to the east coast. I'm sure the players would survive.

The biggest hurdle is not the flight, the biggest hurdle is not fan interest. The biggest hurdle is convincing players (particularly free agents) to live there.

[Goober]

I would rather play for a team in London instead of a team in Mexico.

[EmpireWF]

Isn't all this more the NFL forcing their sport on Europe, unlike the NBA?

Does it really open up that much more revenue than anything domestically?

[Atlas]

Isn't all this more the NFL forcing their sport on Europe, unlike the NBA?

Look up IFAF...

And more to Warner's point, the pound to dollar conversion will cause issues as well, especially when it come to salary cap and the like... As far as travel, I'm sure they'd have a compound/practice stadium on the east coast for them to use and would schedule 2-3 away games at a time to ease the travel burden... But I agree with Warner, it isn't a huge difference b/t going from LA to NYC...

[JTRaines92]

Do not want.

[Warner2BruceTD]

Look up IFAF...

And more to Warner's point, the pound to dollar conversion will cause issues as well, especially when it come to salary cap and the like... As far as travel, I'm sure they'd have a compound/practice stadium on the east coast for them to use and would schedule 2-3 away games at a time to ease the travel burden... But I agree with Warner, it isn't a huge difference b/t going from LA to NYC...

Hadn't even thought of the euro/dollar conversions.

All I know is Khan has got to be looking at these full stadiums, then looking at his 1/3 empty building in Jacksonville, and thinking hard about moving over there.

[NAHSTE]

Hadn't even thought of the euro/dollar conversions.

All I know is Khan has got to be looking at these full stadiums, then looking at his 1/3 empty building in Jacksonville, and thinking hard about moving over there.

I still think LA would be a more potentially lucrative destination, but I'm sure an economist somewhere could hammer out the numbers.

[Maynard]

i think the best way to market the NFL in london is to have a top 5 team play a bottom 5 team. its almost certain to bring a good competitive game

[ram29jackson]

blah blah blah..it simply will never happen, end of story.

[wr50l]

i think the best way to market the NFL in london is to have a top 5 team play a bottom 5 team. its almost certain to bring a good competitive game

To be fair they have to set these games in advance and you can't tell who's going to be good and not. Almost every year has been competitive except when the Patriots smashed the Bucs.

[packersfan4eva]

People act as if flying to London is like flying to the moon.

"OMG HOW ARE TEAMS GOING TO MAKE THAT FLIGHT EVERY WEEK OMG"

It's not all that different than flying from the west coast to the east coast. I'm sure the players would survive.

The biggest hurdle is not the flight, the biggest hurdle is not fan interest. The biggest hurdle is convincing players (particularly free agents) to live there.

It's not the time that's bothersome. It's only a seven or eight-hour flight. It's the jet-lag. England is, correct me if I'm wrong, six hours ahead of the United States. It's hard to adjust to the time. Can you imagine getting ready for a Sunday Night game when your body thinks it's two in the morning?

I do agree, however, that players won't want to go over there to play. You'll have a team full of the desperate players.

[ram29jackson]

It's not the time that's bothersome. It's only a seven or eight-hour flight. It's the jet-lag. England is, correct me if I'm wrong, six hours ahead of the United States. It's hard to adjust to the time. Can you imagine getting ready for a Sunday Night game when your body thinks it's two in the morning?

I do agree, however, that players won't want to go over there to play. You'll have a team full of the desperate players.

a team full of 1 and 2 year contracts LOL

[Maynard]

To be fair they have to set these games in advance and you can't tell who's going to be good and not. Almost every year has been competitive except when the Patriots smashed the Bucs.

how long has it been since the rams were good? i guess that 2 win season wasnt enough of a clue to the nfl