Zorn76 wrote:I think the London thing is dumb as well.
Throw a bone to our friends south of the border, and have the 49ers and Cowboys play down there.
And any talk of actually having an NFL team across the Atlantic is positively b.s. lip service by the NFL.
As much as they'd like to, I doubt if they get a team in London, too. And I think that the league realizes that a franchise in London isn't in the cards for some time, if ever, which helps explain why the league seems to have changed course with this talk of a 16 game traveling circus concept.
There's a number of things that's driving the London move. First is the opening up of the European market, which the NFL has been eyeing for the past couple of decades. Secondly, there's the early-early Sunday time slot in the US that having a team in London creates. And third, with the baby boomer generation hitting retirement age, there's going to be more and more American tourists looking for a reason to take a trip to Europe. There probably won't be a lot of people going over there in December, but I could envision a healthy number traveling to Europe for Oktoberfest, something that's on my personal bucket list. It would be really cool to go watch the Seahawks as part of a European vacation.
I don't think much of that exists in Mexico City. If you're going to go to Mexico, you're going to go to Cancun or one of the Pacific coast cities. And with the political situation in such a mess, Mexico is pretty much down on the list for tourist destinations and has been for some time, with no end in sight. Plus it doesn't add anything to Sundays in the US like London does.