(09-22-2017, 04:33 PM)Byron LeftTown Wrote: Looks like it may be happening in 5 years.  The league wants a team there in 2022.  One excerpt from the MMQB article called:

Game Plan: NFL Believes London is Ready for Team; 2022 Target is Doable

Having a team five time zones from New York and eight time zones from Los Angeles isn’t ideal, and competitive-balance issues resulting from that can’t be ignored. To ease the issues, Waller says the hope is to give a London team two facilities—one in the UK and another somewhere in the U.S. southeast.

That is literally the stupidest idea I've ever heard. I'm sure if you give London a U.S. base in Jackson, Mississippi, Montgomery, Alabama or some other city, people will show up in droves just to support a Non-American team.   What are these guys thinking? 

You want to destroy NFL fan bases, have a London team win a Super Bowl before teams like Jacksonville, Atlanta, Arizona, Detroit, Philadelphia, Tennessee, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Houston, L.A. Chargers, Minnesota or Carolina. I know as a Jags fan, I'd probably give up on watching the NFL altogether, if some non-American team won a Super Bowl before Jacksonville. That would be totally de-moralizing.

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