KevinMcD Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 LINKEngland, Mexico, Canada, Germany as possibilities.I think it is a good idea but it will take away home games from teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 If I was a season ticket holder for a team and this happened I'd be mad, and if I was a member of a team and one of my home games was moved to a different country I'd be mad.Seeing as I'm neither sounds like a good idea But the whole thing seems kind of dumb and unfair to the team, but seeing as it rotates evenly I don't have too big of a problem with it. Plus it is kind of interesting to gage out interest and see games played in a totally different place.I can see a Buffalo game in Toronto or Seattle in Vancouver definately. Proud owner of the Utah Pioneers of the Continnental Baseball League.PACKER BACKER FOREVER! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 im very exicted about the possiblity of the seahawks playing in vancouver. but i agree with pat i would be mad if i was a seaon ticket holder or a team that lost on of its home games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jigga Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 This is bull ...it seems as though the NFL will stop at nothing in their attempts to grab every penny of broadcast and advertising revenue they can possibly get their grubby little hands on. On January 16, 2013 at 3:49 PM, NJTank said: Btw this is old hat for Notre Dame. Knits Rockne made up George Tip's death bed speech. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harperdc Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 the majority of their money is coming from people who's butts aren't in the seats anyways...and by trying to open up more markets that means they can earn more money.I'm just wondering where they'll play in England - Twickenham, the national rugby stadium, or Wembley? I guess that depends on whether Wembley's being used by one of the soccer clubs as a home ground...same with Germany, I could see the game being in December or so because that's when the German Bundesliga goes on a six-week mid-season break, so all the stadiums would be open and, more importantly, the NFL game would attract all the attention...I think in that case Dortmund's Westfalenstadion or Kaiserslautern's Fritz Walter Stadium, with the latter being a possibility because of the large American military population nearby - the Americans played Poland there before the world cup and it was almost a US home game the crowd support was so huge.I can't wait to see this happen, but at the same time I wonder if it's something that shouldn't be contained to the pre-season. Perhaps having two to four pre-season games overseas, like a mini-tour, would be better? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaperAirplane31 Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 Don't all those countries hate American football with a fiery passion? "Rugby for Girls?"Do the opposite and give us an FA Premier League game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breakwood Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 Don't all those countries hate American football with a fiery passion? "Rugby for Girls?"Do the opposite and give us an FA Premier League game.In Germany the NFL is fairly popular. No clue about how popular it is in Britain however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 Don't all those countries hate American football with a fiery passion? "Rugby for Girls?"Do the opposite and give us an FA Premier League game.It's not as if soccer is in demand here. This whole thing makes no sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaperAirplane31 Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 Don't all those countries hate American football with a fiery passion? "Rugby for Girls?"Do the opposite and give us an FA Premier League game.It's not as if soccer is in demand here. This whole thing makes no sense.But we'd accept one of their games way before they'd accept one of ours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBGKon Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 My assumption is that for NFL games will be held at a list of possible locations:- Any NFL Europe stadium- Any UEFA 5-Star stadium with substantial field dimensionsNFL Europe StadiumsUEFA Five Star Stadiums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
appleclock Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 Maybe they should try playing a regular season game in Los Angeles first... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 Nah, it just so happens nobody in the entire Greater Los Angeles metropolitan area actually likes professional football! Remember, "In Los Angeles, footballs are black and white." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hat Boy Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 This whole idea is pretty selfish for the NFL. It doesn't help the teams (lose a home game, travel 7-10 hours in the middle of the season to play in Europe) and it doesn't help the fans (lose a home game). The NFL is the one that directly reaps the benefits ($$$) without any of the inconvenience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rams80 Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 I'm of two minds on this.I understand that if you want to expand the league's popularity overseas, you have to do something like this. I'm assuming that the team giving up a home game each season would be heavily compensated by the NFL through additional revenue sharing and the like, and both teams would probably have a bye the week after the game (to allow the players a better chance to recover).On the flip side, I wouldn't like the Rams to give up a home game and risk being tired and disoriented for a couple of weeks, and I'm sure other fans would feel the same way about their favorite team. On 8/1/2010 at 4:01 PM, winters in buffalo said: You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now. On 1/2/2011 at 9:07 PM, Sodboy13 said: Today, we are all otaku. "The city of Peoria was once the site of the largest distillery in the world and later became the site for mass production of penicillin. So it is safe to assume that present-day Peorians are descended from syphilitic boozehounds."-Stephen Colbert POTD: February 15, 2010, June 20, 2010 The Glorious Bloom State Penguins (NCFAF) 2014: 2-9, 2015: 7-5 (L Pineapple Bowl), 2016: 1-0 (NCFAB) 2014-15: 10-8, 2015-16: 14-5 (SMC Champs, L 1st Round February Frenzy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yh Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 This wouldn't be a problem if the NFL dropped from 4 preseason games to 3 preseason games, added a 17th game to the regular season and made that 17th game a neutral site game, thus providing 16 non-NFL cities a chance to host a meaningful NFL game every year. You could play these games in a number of overseas venues plus major college stadia outside of NFL markets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DG_ThenNowForever Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 The NFL just did this two seasons ago with the Cardinals in Mexico. They avoided any real outcry from dedicated fans because no one gives a damn about the Cardinals. I don't like the idea of taking home games away from teams -- most of them need concessions, merchandise, etc. to stay profitable. What's so bad about moving preseason games to other countries? It'd be the same premise as the NBA's practice of playing preseason games in neutral sites and I'm sure the locals would be happy enough just to get the NFL product without worrying what kind of game it is. 1 hour ago, ShutUpLutz! said: and the drunken doodoobags jumping off the tops of SUV's/vans/RV's onto tables because, oh yeah, they are drunken drug abusing doodoobags Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnWis97 Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 I don't like the idea of taking home games away from teams -- most of them need concessions, merchandise, etc. to stay profitable. What's so bad about moving preseason games to other countries? It'd be the same premise as the NBA's practice of playing preseason games in neutral sites and I'm sure the locals would be happy enough just to get the NFL product without worrying what kind of game it is.I was going to type a reply to this thread and then I read this and can pretty much just say "ditto." Revenue-wise I am sure the "home" team is compensated. People buy hot dogs in other countries too. My beef is not about the revenue but about the loss of a home game/road game for schedule reasons. I don't like things that take away the integrity of the schedule and playoff run. And having one team lose a home game and another lose a road game does just that (particularly if division rivals). For this reason, I don't think they'll usually have the best teams involved in these games, but in the NFL last year's 6-10 can be this year's 11-5.I don't think the Cardinals will lose another home game over this because of the new stadium, so look for the Vikings to be the "home" team in one of these. If I were a season ticket holder, I would not care (though if there is an annual deposit, that should be cut by 1/8) about the way it affects my attendance. I'd be happy to save one game ticket price. But as a fan, I'll be upset if they lose a home game because it affects the integrity of the schedule. If they lose a road game, it's an advantage I do not want either.And I agree 100% with the idea of playing preseason games elsewhere. Season ticket holders would love it so they can pay for one instead of two preseason games and I don't think it would matter much to the fans whether the game counted or not. They should pay preseason games in all the nuetral sites they can find, in the US and abroad. Disclaimer: If this comment is about an NBA uniform from 2017-2018 or later, do not constitute a lack of acknowledgement of the corporate logo to mean anything other than "the corporate logo is terrible and makes the uniform significantly worse." BADGERS TWINS VIKINGS TIMBERWOLVES WILD POTD (Shared) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hormone Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 I don't think this is fair to people who have season tickets or teams that earned a home game. NFL isn't that big in Europe and soccer isn't that big here. This is going to have teams at a disadvantage. Say you're the away team, your home game is in Europe, and then away for 2 more. You've just played 4 straight on the road...not to mention jet lag, familiy, etc. Why? So the NFL network and some owners, who are billionaires, can make more? Pre-season..fine. regular season...bad idea. Also, if it's Europe, am I going to watch my team live at 4am or will they show the game delayed when I already have it spoiled for me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CC97 Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 So we can't have an NFL team in Toronto because, well, just because... and they can't play a game here because "it's not fair for season ticket holders to only see 7 games instead of 8 per season".I'd like to have, i dunno, 1 game, per decade maybe.The greed seems to be from the fans posting in this thread. --- Chris Creamer Founder/Editor, SportsLogos.Net "The Mothership" • News • Facebook • X/Twitter • Instagram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred T. Jane Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 +1 for Chris. Because we all know the financial sacrifices (read: enormous credit card bill) made for those precious season tickets should not go to nought if someone in another country wants to see the NFL! [Croatia National Team Manager Slavan] Bilic then went on to explain how Croatia's success can partially be put down to his progressive man-management techniques. "Sometimes I lie in the bed with my players. I go to the room of Vedran Corluka and Luka Modric when I see they have a problem and I lie in bed with them and we talk for 10 minutes." Maybe Capello could try getting through to his players this way too? Although how far he'd get with Joe Cole jumping up and down on the mattress and Rooney demanding to be read his favourite page from The Very Hungry Caterpillar is open to question. --The Guardian's Fiver, 08 September 2008 Attention: In order to obtain maximum enjoyment from your stay at the CCSLC, the reader is advised that the above post may contain large amounts of sarcasm, dry humour, or statements which should not be taken in any true sort of seriousness. As a result, the above poster absolves himself of any and all blame in the event that a forum user responds to the aforementioned post without taking the previous notice into account. Thank you for your cooperation, and enjoy your stay at the CCSLC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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