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Mayor of London "couple teams interested"
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Looking through the list of kickoff times in Eastern Time Vs UK time:
1pm = 6pm UK 4.05pm = 9.05pm UK 4.25pm = 9.25pm UK 7.10pm = 12.10am UK 8.20pm = 1.20am UK 10.20pm = 3.20am UK Say for example an (unnamed) NFL franchise decided to move to the UK and became successful on the field, surely the NFL would want them to play primetime games? With the locality of Wembley Stadium and the length of the games, this would mean they would be unable to play a HOME game in London based upon primetime US times.. I mean, there are few direct trains to the Wembley/Brent area from outside of London. I know, travelling from the south, that I would have to travel to Central London then on to Wembley which is the best part of an hour on top of the commute to London itself. Sure, you can drive, but I know I wouldn't want to pay the £20-30 to park for EVERY home game.. nor would I want to pay the £30+ to get the train to EVERY home game when you take into account the cost of season tickets too.. The timings are the same reason for why Wembley logistically can't host a Super Bowl. Kick off time is usually, what? 8pm (ish) ET?.. That would be 1am UK time. To my knowledge, Wembley has a noise curfew of 10.30pm. This would mean that any game being held at Wembley would result in a Kick Off time of 6pm UK time "just in case" at the latest.. This would be 1pm ET and 10am PST.. I'm not too sure the Western based fans would be too keen on watching Super Bowl Sunday over breakfast? If you combine these facts with the last DIRECT trains out of Central London on Sunday's being sporadic, this means that fans attending games would be inclined to pay for hotel rooms which are inflated when there's an "event" in London. So not only do the NFL have substantial logistical stumbling blocks from the team moving.. but they also have them with any potential team arriving. Lastly. Wembley is the National Stadium. White Hart Lane is Tottenham Hotspur's Stadium. Suggesting that an NFL Franchise can just move into either on a permanent basis is not really feasible. Especially with the fact that the NFL season coincides with the soccer season over here. If a franchise moved over here and requested having their own stadium/training facilities etc, where would they find the room in London for that? Would that mean a further move for that franchise outside of the Greater London area. These are questions that would require exceptionally good answers for the idea to become a reality. ![]() 80% of what I talk about is nonesense.. the other 25% is made up statistics... |
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