Distant Relative wrote:Screw London.
Uppercut wrote:I never liked the overseas games, too much on a team even from the east coast. You comments do make sense but I would only have exhibition games overseas. I also would eliminate Thursday night football and make the bye for every team this coming week. Mid season break.
c_hawkbob wrote:Why do you think they are considering adding a single game each year?
http://cle.247sports.com/Article/Is-a-1 ... L-40564014
A 17 game schedule doesn't work unless one game a year is on neutral turf.
savvyman wrote:I always thought that The Thursday night game should be switched over to Friday Night (for so many good reasons) if the NFL insists on a week night game other than Monday.
You guys might as well get used to it, London is here to stay. The league signed a 10 year agreement starting in 2018 to play 2 games per year in a new stadium in London, and the league is considering other venues around the UK for more games.
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap300000 ... artnership
FolkCrusader wrote:
By agreement the NFL leaves Friday nights for High School football. The concern being that professional football on Fridays would take away support for HS ball. No doubt it would.
burrrton wrote:Holy smokes. Hadn't heard a word about that, and I suspect I know why.
I can't wait for the backlash to start (I could be wrong, but I predict it will).
"Yeah, we're meeting at my place for pre-game at 3am- kickoff in New Delhi is at 4am pacific- GO HAWKS!"
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.
kalibane wrote:I think they are really trying to force this London issue and it just seems weird. Why London in the first place?
It's not going to undo the NFL to have these London games but I think this mentality that they can just shoehorn anything they want will end up hurting the league in the long run if they keep doing business like this.
NorthHawk wrote:I was under the impression that they have an exemption from antitrust laws - or is it other laws that I am confusing it with?
With the big money and deep pocketed owners, it wouldn't surprise me if they hired some type of lobbying group to thwart any attempt by congress or others in Gov't to investigate how they do business and if they should continue as they are.
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