Bullshit: "Maybe a London Super Bowl isn't such a bad idea afterall"

[relaxedanderson]

The game should be played in Green Bay, Kansas City, Philly, Denver, New York and Chicago long before it moves overseas.
It's time to celebrate cold weather football.

That's true.

It would be a huge kick in the teeth for those cities to be denied a Superbowl just because of the weather only to watch a bunch of players standing around Wembley at 2 o'clock on a February morning in the freezing cold, fog and relentless drizzle.

January/February weather here is by far the most miserable, and the weather here is generally pretty miserable anyway.

Unless they move it to Cardiff of course. :D

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

5. Knowing that a Super Bowl is coming to London will give folks in England an incentive to learn more about the game. It will create natural interest in the sport in the years preceding the event, and it will help the sport take a chunk out of the obsession with soccer.

WORD ! That worked just this way when the World Cup came to the U.S !!!
If they ever hold it out of the country I hope a fuckin Blizzard drenches the stadium in snow at kickoff.

Paul Tagliabue was the last link to footballs traditional past. He sought out a replacement that was focused on the economic aspects almost entirely. The next 2 gens of football will be watered down no matter what.

[relaxedanderson]

Cardiff would make sense as they can actually close the roof. I'm not sure if anyone's told Goodell that the roof at Wembley doesn't actually close the whole way, and the SB would be played in some of the worst weather ever. On a pitch designed for soccer.

Even then, the Millennium Stadium gets freezing cold even with the roof shut.

Plus the fact that First Great Western would still insist on running the last train at 10:30pm, Superbowl or no Superbowl.

I'm with Dave on this one, send it north before sending it east.

[Archer]

I have a problem with it because it's silly. The only practical way to do it would be for Europe to have it's own football league. Oh wait...

Im pressuming you mean NFL Europe when you make these comments ... let me ask you this

Would you pay almost full price tickets to watch 3rd string talent play?? The U.K wasnt intrested in Europe the same way it wasnt in pre-season games because they knew it wasnt the real thing , the talent pool in the NFL isint as big as people think. Nobody wants to pay to watch 3rd and 4th string talent on a freezing cold Sunday Afternoon

Soon as a real game came over to England , 500,000 people applied for tickets and most people who were there said it was almost like a superbowl atomasphere at the game and that was the Dolphins v Giants then Saints v Chargers , hardly the most exciting games ever seen

I still think the superbowl should stay in America , but some of you guys are making it sound like people in Europe shouldnt enjoy the NFL just because NFL Europe failed.