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NFL International Game 2009
gridiron49:
The weather was good all the way up to the day of the game. It would just have been fun to join the barbecue outside at the Green Man instead of avoiding the rain inside ;)
ScottishNiner:
Looks like we could be headed to London a lot more often in years to come:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/american_football/7856008.stm
London NFL Franchise?
' And Mark Waller, NFL head of sales and marketing, said: "The commissioner and I have talked about 10 years so that's mentally how we're framing it." '
gridiron49:
London Monarchs revisited ;)
It is not the first time it is mentioned as a possibility and the huge crowds at the Wembley games are probably also pulling in the right direction but I still have a hard time seing it happen. I am sure teams bound to end in the same division as a European-based team would complain about travel time and other disadvantages..... :-\
London49ers:
I'd love to see it happen, but I just cant see it - logistically it'd be impossible, the only way US teams could play here would be if they had their bye week straight after (like in the International game), and seeing as the bye weeks end half way through the season, itsjust not going to happen....unless the London team plays all of its away games in the second half of the season, which would be ridiculous!! I'd still like to see NFL Eurpoe come back sometime, and i think if interest is sustained in the NFL over here, thye'd consider it as I know a lot of clubs and players from the NFL appreciated what the European league did for fringe players.
Resurrecting the MOnarchs would be great, it'd bring back a lot of memories, like my 15th birthday seeing them beat the scottish claymores at White Hart Lane (home to Spurs!). I've still got my MOnarchs jerseys too, so I could dust them off oncemore!
ScottishNiner:
It would be difficult, but not impossible. After all the flight time from New York to London is about 7 hours. The flight time from New York to San Francisco is about 6 and half hours. So it's a length of journey teams are already having to make, and they don't get a bye week afterwards. The trouble would come for west coast or mid west teams travelling to London. And for the other part of the season, I'd imagine they'd schedule it so that the London team had two four-week long road-trips or something like that.
And who knows, maybe London won't be the only expansion team? If there was a team in Germany as well, that would make a two-week stopover more appealing for the US teams...
And by the way London:
Monarchs? Boo! Claymores? Yay! :-*
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