Comments on: Goodell Hears London Calling, But He Should Listen to the London Homesick Blues

By: jimisawesome

jimisawesome — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:11:07 +0000

Agree. I would love to know how many of the fans that buy tickets for this game are just Americans living in London and Europe in general compared to actual Englishmen. Right now its the equivalent to when pollsters ask the generic question of who would you vote for Candidate X or generic opposite party member. It easy to get support for the generic but onces its a specific name (team) the support is usally much lower.

By: Carnivore

Carnivore — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:22:00 +0000

“How many free agents are going to want to sign on for that if they have the choice, not only living abroad for half a year, but also living in various places for half that time?”

Plus being in your mid-twenties and a millionaire? That doesn’t sound too rough.

(Totally agree with the post & Tarheel – there’s no local support for it and the travel would be brutal for every opponent.)

By: Nada

Nada — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:01:44 +0000

I wanna go home with the armadillo …

By: TarheelJTK

TarheelJTK — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:22:42 +0000

The bigger problem isn’t the London team traveling to the US. It’s the teams traveling to London. The way they do it now is to give a bye to the teams after the long flights. It will be very hard to that for week 16 games. So basically that team would have to play their final games on the road.

There is no fan base over there. They really don’t care about American football. If the world league didn’t work in places where there American bases there is little chance of this working. At least when the NBA talks about this type of thing it makes a little more sense because Europeans care about basketball.