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relativexistance
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Have you seen this bullshit?!?
#7522795 - 10/16/07 11:53 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Goodell says NFL to look into playing Super Bowl in London
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- A future Super Bowl champion may someday be crowned overseas in a game witnessed predominantly by a foreign audience, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said.
"There's a great deal of interest in holding a Super Bowl in London," Goodell told reporters Monday. "So we'll be looking at that."
The commissioner said London's new Wembley Stadium would make a great candidate for pro football's biggest matchup, given the enthusiasm overseas for the game.
The NFL has been expanding its overseas presence for years by televising games around the world. It's held preseason games in numerous countries in Europe, Asia, Mexico and Canada, and in 2005, the Arizona Cardinals and San Francisco 49ers played the first regular-season match outside the United States.
The game at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City drew the league's largest crowd to date, 103,467.
On Oct. 28, Wembley will host the first regular-season NFL game outside North America. It took just 90 minutes to sell the first 40,000 tickets for the game between the Miami Dolphins and New York Giants. Goodell said event organizers have sold 95,000 tickets in all.
Goodell spoke about the possibility of a British Super Bowl after a luncheon Monday in Scottsdale sponsored by the host committee for the 2008 Super Bowl in Arizona.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3065254
what a phony ass money grubbing piece of shit commissioner. this is an absurd idea and pisses me off to no end.
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I dont see why you are pissed off. I dont think it makes sense for a regular season game to be over seas since one team is supposed to be home and the other is supposed to be away, but the superbowl seems fair enough to hold anywhere.
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Re: Have you seen this bullshit?!? [Re: AaronEvil]
#7523266 - 10/16/07 01:45 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Gotta agree with you here Existance, that is some Grade-A bullshit. Why that would even cross the commissioner's mind is a mystery to me. It's the National Football League, not the International Football League. The Superbowl should be decided on how it always has, since the NFL began.
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Re: Have you seen this bullshit?!? [Re: MarlboroMan]
#7523476 - 10/16/07 02:28 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I think the Super Bowl, every fourth or fifth year, should be played in a Cold Weather Venue.
Make them play in Foxboro or Chicago in January.
This would make my day.
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Don't forget Buffalo!
I'm not too pumped on this London idea, either, but I'm not gonna go around calling Goddell a money grubbing shithead or whatever it was you called him (in response to the OP)
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Re: Have you seen this bullshit?!? [Re: jewunit]
#7523518 - 10/16/07 02:37 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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What do you think about the NBA expanding to Europe?
I heard David Stern talking about it the other day, how in 5-6 years he wants to have a European Division w/ 4-5 teams.
He says you could fly a team over and have them do a mini road-trip, adn that it wouldn't be any worse than flying from NY-CA.
And unlike football, they actually like basketball in other places...
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He says you could fly a team over and have them do a mini road-trip, adn that it wouldn't be any worse than flying from NY-CA.
What about a California team playing an eastern Europe team? That's up to ten time zones. Supposedly it takes one day per time zone to recover from jet lag.
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I think that would be better. First off there is, as you said, far more interest. Secondly playing a championship game over there and having a whole new division over there are two entirely different things. However, I don't think it's a good idea because the league is already spread thin enough. Imagine how terrible the East would be after they lost some of their players to an expansion draft.
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Re: Have you seen this bullshit?!? [Re: WhiskeyClone]
#7523866 - 10/16/07 03:38 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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WhiskeyClone said: What about a California team playing an eastern Europe team? That's up to ten time zones. Supposedly it takes one day per time zone to recover from jet lag.
Nonsense.
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relativexistance
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Madtowntripper said: I think the Super Bowl, every fourth or fifth year, should be played in a Cold Weather Venue.
Make them play in Foxboro or Chicago in January.
This would make my day.
Def!!! They need to have a SB in every team's city before they start putting it in other countries. What right does London have getting a SB if most of the nfl team cities haven't even had one yet? Plus it makes it shitty for the fans to have to dish out the extra money just to go to london. Not to mention if it were in london you would have to lose some of the american viewers just because of time zone. Bottomline is Goodell wants to make the league international so they can make more $$.
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WhiskeyClone said: What about a California team playing an eastern Europe team? That's up to ten time zones. Supposedly it takes one day per time zone to recover from jet lag.
Nonsense.
That's the general consensus from the medical community. Maybe you know better. In any case, teams based in the easternmost and westernmost cities in any transatlantic league are going to have a distinct disadvantage while on the road. I think that would make it difficult for a competitive league like the NBA or NFL to make the jump intercontinental play. I just don't think it's going to happen.
http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/articles/article.aspx?articleId=220§ionId=10
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/jet-lag/SL00012
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_lag
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Re: Have you seen this bullshit?!? [Re: WhiskeyClone]
#7524193 - 10/16/07 04:38 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yeah, I'm not sure the Physics involved.
I just heard D_S talking about it.
It seems like a cool idea to me.
I mean, if you have a five team division, you can fly a team over there for 10 days and let them work the road, then maybe an east coast swing on the way back for a few days to get back in the rythym.
I fly alot, and I can't see that there is a big difference between crossing 3 time zones and crozzing 10. I mean, your sleep schedule may be fucked. But you can function.
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Re: Have you seen this bullshit?!? [Re: AaronEvil]
#7524606 - 10/16/07 06:11 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Hosting the Superbowl anywhere but within the United States would be sacrilege.
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That makes no sense. It's like our football (soccer) association holding a cup final in America. There would be uproar.
No-one over here cares about American Football. It's an American sport, it should be played in America.
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As an Eagles fan, i don't give a shit where the damn game is played, because we're never gonna be there! Let the fucking dog shit Cowboys win their rings in a country full of fat buck-teefed bangers & mash eatin' whores for all i care. Serves'em right!
You're darn tootin'
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relativexistance
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Re: Have you seen this bullshit?!? [Re: ArcofaJourney]
#7534001 - 10/19/07 03:03 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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the cowboys arent going to win shit this year. honestly i dont think an nfc team will be able to win a superbowl until both tom brady and peyton manning retire. by then though carson palmer will prob be blowin up the spot and they'll have to deal with that. i really cant see any true nfc contenders, the teams that are "good" in the nfc have too many weaknesses to win a championship.
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i was only joking...but i hate the pats just as much as the cowboys. i'm full of hate.
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