Packers playing in London 2016

uffda udfa
Veteran Member Topic Starter

9 years ago

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/25241204/report-packers-to-play-in-london-in-2016

Hope that doesn't cost us a home game and it doesn't. Jags are the home team.

Ted Thompson sits on his hands per former GM: "because they’ve had 25 fricking years of great quarterbacks. Of course it works. Try it without a special quarterback."

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packerfanoutwest
Member

9 years ago

why does any team play outside the US? so dislike this

uffda udfa
Veteran Member Topic Starter

9 years ago

The NFL has this bizarre fascination with taking our game to the "world". MONEY, MONEY, MON AYYYYYY...

A team should NEVER play in London permanently. It's a logistical disadvantage for the team located there for all their road games and a huge advantage to them for all their home games.

Ted Thompson sits on his hands per former GM: "because they’ve had 25 fricking years of great quarterbacks. Of course it works. Try it without a special quarterback."

beast
Select Member

9 years ago

why does any team play outside the US? so dislike this

Originally Posted by: packerfanoutwest

Because the NFL owners are money hungry (like most big businesses) and they're close to maxing out of what they can get out of the US market, so they've been trying to build an over sea market for years if not decades so they can get even more.

The part I hate the most is they're claiming their trying to get enough interest to move a team over seas. Fans talk about plane ride / changing time zones and tax laws effecting the game enough... get a team over seas and that will only grow by 10 times or more. And in theory, if they're successful with this, in theory half the teams could be outside the US at some point in the very distance future. Of course as Mark Cuban suggested, if the NFL keeps trying to be over greedy, it could come to the down fall of the NFL, as maybe people less interested in it in every market if they were to get more teams over seas full time. Also I think they should take over Canada before attempting to get Europe. Because if they can't get Canada, then they probably can't get Europe.

Bigbyfan
Member

9 years ago

Originally Posted by: uffda udfa

The fact that they want to take the Super Bowl (the biggest individual game in America) and play it in London disgusts me. It's called the NATIONAL Football League.

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texaspackerbacker
Veteran Member

9 years ago

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/25241204/report-packers-to-play-in-london-in-2016

Hope that doesn't cost us a home game and it doesn't. Jags are the home team.

Originally Posted by: uffda udfa

Precisely. There's no way the Packers will lose a home game. The Jags have pretty much the worst attendance in the NFL, and they have played quite a few home games in London for that reason. From the Packer perspective, they get a nationally televised game against what likely will still be in 2016 one of the worst teams in the NFL. I call that a win/win situation.

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musccy
Veteran Member

9 years ago

Also I think they should take over Canada before attempting to get Europe. Because if they can't get Canada, then they probably can't get Europe.

Originally Posted by: beast

You stole my thunder. I have no clue how well the NFL is doing in Canada, but baby steps in Toronto with the Bills (as an example) seems to make a hell of a lot more sense to me than this bullheaded fascination with Europe that's been going on since (at least) the NFL Europe days.

It looks like it's 10ish hours for the Packers to fly there. They better damn well get their bye after this game.

Yerko
Senior Member

9 years ago

Originally Posted by: musccy

The thing with NFL moving into Canadian territory is that the people there don't really want it if it means it will overtake the CFL. The Canadians love their CFL.

With the NFL's current mindset, I doubt they'd want to share Canada with another league and people that are only half interested in their league. They'd want full takeover, which is why London is such a hot spot for them.

Why not Mexico? What ever happened to the whole Latino NFL movement?

I am not against playing games in London and I am on the fence about a franchise or two over there. They clearly have the interest of fans, why not continue to treat those fans?

musccy
Veteran Member

9 years ago

The thing with NFL moving into Canadian territory is that the people there don't really want it if it means it will overtake the CFL. The Canadians love their CFL.

Originally Posted by: Yerko

I don't follow the CFL all that closely, I just see half-filled stadiums and wonder how much they love their sport.

I don't know if they'd embrace the NFL, but my point is it seems to make more sense to experiment with expansion where logistics are much more manageable and you have some sort of a history with the sport. See if you can expand on this hemisphere first.

You raise a good point about Mexico, I actually think it did OK in Mexico City a few years ago.

sschind
Senior Member

9 years ago

#10

Originally Posted by: musccy

Until they drank the water.

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