Why are they playing league games in London? Surely that means one of the teams losing home advantage in the fixture.

yeah Golf Boy you're right. both squads lose a lot with the usual football ass-kicking and travel back and forth...NFL wants to see if expansion is a thing...I love it if not for the travel...want people to appreciate it but why?

yep two home games now Raiders and Giants i'm expecting two wins.

Currently the teams get a bye week after London games and the distance isn't that different from coast to coast stateside. I'd also say that home field advantage doesn't confer the same advantages as football (At least psychologically, environmental conditions is a different matter).

The teams volunteer to give up their home games for the opportunity to play here so the financial incentive of a new market must be worthwhile, at least to some of the less successful / popular franchises.

I hope they carry on the move to get a UK franchise.


Oakland will be lucky to win a game all season at this rate. Tough few games coming up.

I still think logistically this is going to take some doing and is going to be a really difficult to work out.

You can’t avoid or cure jet lag. And there is no way the NFL can conjure up a schedule where every team has a bye week after playing in London. The East Coast to London (and vice versa) is manageable, but Midwest to London and especially West Coast to London? It would be really tough doing that trip and having to play the following week. The jet lag alone knocks off 24/48 hours of the week, and any NFL coach will say that is time that can’t be wasted for players to reset their body clocks in a regular week’s preparation for a game.

Then you have short weeks to deal with in regards to TNF and MNF. Although I’d guess that the London franchise would not be involved with those games, as well as their opponents the week before or week after. More headaches for the schedule people!

Can't see it happening and don't want it to happen. Logistical nightmare for everyone involved and something that will no doubt fall on it's backside if it ever happens. On the radio yesterday they were talking about the potential of it happening and that the team would still have to have a US base so that the players didn't have to fly to the UK all the time. This would probably mean that despite it being a "UK Franchise" the training facility, players and coaches homes, blah blah blah would all remain in the US and the players would literally fly over for home games and then back to the US straight after. This would cure the jet lag issue I'd imagine as teams could arrange to fly in and out, keeping all their body clocks on US time.

Personally, I'm losing interest in the games they bring over here, I don't want to go and watch terrible teams get thumped, which is usually the case with the games that we have. The Detroit/Atlanta game and also the Steelers/Vikings game last year were good and I'd love to see more competitive games come over, unlikely to happen though, probably more chance of me packing up my things and moving to the States.

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Jerry Jones should win the Nobel Prize for Medicine:
Obviously, JJ had to relay this information to Garrett in order to get Romo back in the game.

Both good posts. I think the team would definitely have to be US based for a majority of the pre-season and regular season and just have Wembley as the ground.

As I understand it the travelling team would always be scheduled for an East coast game the week before so the time and travel are less however jet lag will still be a factor so I would guess its down to how much the NFL wants it.

I think there's the market to support it and it would help on the competitive game front unless we get the current Oakland Raiders franchise and team (although that would make the switching allegiance choice easy for me)

I think a "17th game" concept will suit everyone. 2 bye weeks, 2 preseason games and one neutral site game.

Make use of Toronto, Hawaii, Mexico, LA, some of the college stadiums, then use Wembley (x2), Millennium/Olympic Stadium, Dublin etc

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nfl-bac...9106--nfl.html

This part makes no sense:
How does the country see an economic boost? The people aren't going to take their money overseas or anything if they can't go to an NFL game, I'm sure they're still going to spend it in England.

People spending rather than saving. Same as when England do well in world cup or euros, everyone piles into pubs to watch the games and spends money they otherwise wouldn't.

How reliable the figures are is up for debate, but there is definitely an economic effect taking into account the multiplier effect.

SCREW THAT!!!!! Those dirty foreigners have their own kickball, leave our sacred game alone!!!!

Weeden should have stayed in the game. He had momentum. Start him against Arizona and give Romo a rest.
Jones will stop at nothing to have Romo under centre, even at 25% fit.
Oh, and while you are there Jones, FFS sign up Bryant and Murray long term as if you do not, it will be a number of years in the wilderness for Dallas.

Bryant - yes.

Murray hurts his long term value with every carry he takes

Brandon Weedon plays today... tee hee

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weeden MVP

No GB Packers game!

Will route for the New England Patriots.

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