The London Monarchs
Posted on 01/20/2016 3:05:47 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
The NFL are 'on track' to deliver a permanent UK-based American football franchise within the next six years, spokesman Mark Waller has insisted.
Since 2007, London's Wembley Stadium has been home to the National Football League's International Series by hosting regular-season matches.
Jacksonville Jaguars ‒ who are owned by Shahid Khan, the Fulham owner ‒ have played a game a season there since 2013 and now a permanent move for an NFL team appears to be likely.
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Raiders fans have nothing on Millwall FC fans.
Red Coats.
Raiders fans are nothing like their reputation.
The UK will be lost to the Muzzie Jihadists in six years - I doubt this will happen.
Being able to think/be interested in/do multiple things seems to be beyond the capacity of single issue folks.
New York FC.
A lot more of that has to do with NASCAR’s selling out to corporate ca$h and corporatized homogenization of the cars ... and drivers.
I used to care, but it’s hard to root for generic pretty boy driver x driving generic toyoforvy y anymore.
I think I watched one race last year. Probably won’t watch any this year.
That’s one of the things I found, to may dismay, about NFL Sunday Ticket on DirecTV when I moved to the west coast. Games that started at 9 on Sunday morning proved insufficiently motivating to get me out of bed, even knowing how much I was paying for the opportunity to watch them.
Philadelphia fans are at least as bad as their reputation.
Specially if you are Santa Claus.
I was going to say the London Raiders, but really, wasn’t it the Saxon’s who raided England back in the day ... so move the Oakland-LA-Oakland franchise to London and call them the Saxon’s, and you have continuity.
And of course, keep them in the AFC West just for giggles.
The Angles raided when the Britons were native. The Saxons then raided and settled on top of the Angles, then came the Danes. Last, but not least, it was the Normans, who were Vikings settles in northern France.
The Spaniards tried it, but the Armada didn’t make it.
The Limeys.
This move has really nothing to do with trying to win fans in the UK. It has everything to do with expanding the TV audience back here in the US. And American TV is where the money is. The NFL has currently three windows for games on Sunday, with two windows on Monday and Thursday. There will be no games on Saturday, for two reasons, one is they do not want to hurt the NCAA, and two Congress passed a law back in JFK’s day that prevents the NFL from competing with the NCAA on Saturday. Friday’s are the traditional HS football night, with Tuesdays and Wednesday being a bridge too far for the NFLPA for health reasons. This leaves the League only one option, to expand on Sunday into an additional viewing window, Sunday morning. That is where London, and other European cities for down the road, comes into play. This would give the NFL an additional viewing window that they currently do not occupy. All they need from London is enough people in the stands to make it look good on TV here in the US.
You are correct ... my line of thought was the original raiders of “England” ... which is a name based on “Ang’s Land”, because of the Anglo’s ... and the Saxon’s were the first raiders of the Anglo’s.
Agreed. This would screw with our semi-famous football lunch. I am not changing it to football breakfast.
My other point was that the Raiders are the team that did not get a seat in the latest game of musical stadiums, ergo, they are the most likely to move.
My second point would be the Jaguars ... which would not need to be changed at all ... all the players would be given F-Types and R-Types (depending on how valuable they were) as signing bonuses. (/snark off)
Some of the talk has been to have the UK team only do their home schedule during the bye weeks, so teams coming over could get the rest, and they’d do the road schedule in two big blocks. It’s going to happen, it needs to happen. With the concussion issue already costing them youth players the NFL needs an international audience, they need more parents more interested in the money than the dangers.
They haven’t saturated, the fact that teams move proves that. But there’s 6.7 billion non-Americans in the world. An international footprint is good for sports, more money, more talent.
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