(06-03-2018, 06:27 AM)leopold332002 Wrote: Why you always trolling on this site like you intentionally trying to be a jerk? You been doing this for the last 11 years on the Jaguars message board and for once just act your age.

Wikipedia is trolling you.
Wikipedia is intentionally trying to be a jerk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential_..._franchise

Current Jaguars owner Shahid Khan is himself based in London.

On March 27, 2017, it was reported by City A.M. that the Jaguars are in discussion to build a permanent training facility near Wembley Stadium. If done, the team would be the first NFL franchise to have a training facility built outside of the U.S.

The fact that the Jacksonville Jaguars have a short term lease on its stadium is also often used to support media speculation that the franchise may be the one to relocate to London.

According to The Guardian, as of 2015 it was "well-known" that a London franchise was a goal of the NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, although "he tends to avoid specifics on the process to make that happen". The NFL's Executive Vice President International Mark Waller is more specific, expressing the goal as "to build a fanbase that would be able to support a franchise"

Expansion Franchise:

According to CBS however, as of 2012 the club owners were generally satisfied with the league's 32 team model, and would prefer a relocation.
CBS also argued that expansion teams generally struggle "for quite some time", suggesting a relocated team would be the better option from the standpoint of competitiveness.

It has been speculated that the current (2012) US market was saturated, and so it was unlikely that an expansion team within the US would generate the NFL's desired growth without a fundamental change in their funding model, such as the introduction of pay-per-view TV, which was also seen as unlikely since the league's current broadcasting contracts run to 2022

Target Date:

Reporting on unnamed sources who attended a 2012 meeting of the NFL's International Committee, CBS stated that while league/owner discussions of a possible London team had previously generally been regarded as a "more a far-off concept than near-term possibility", the mood had now palpably shifted to one of "when, not if", with the NFL planning for a London team within 10 years, earlier than some team owners had anticipated. It was believed that because other issues such as the CBA renegotiation had been resolved, creating a London franchise was now being treated as a focal point of the NFL's desire to expand globally.

Speaking in 2015, Mark Waller firmed up this view, explaining "[The NFL] have always said that we felt that we started in 2007 with the [International Series] games and we felt it was a 15 year process so that would give us years ’21, ’22 and that feels sort of right – five or six years." By the start of 2016 he was even more confident, stating "I think we're on track to deliver [a franchise by 2022]. I fundamentally believe we will deliver that". He has also said he would feel he would have personally failed in his role if it does not happen by 2022. Waller is clear however that there is no specific timetable, and it would only happen "when we're ready" and there was real certainty everything needed was in place.

In both 2014 and 2015 the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osbourne confirmed he was in talks with the NFL over the arrangements for setting up a London franchise, and that it could be achieved "in the next few years, maybe four or five years time."  The 2022 timeline was still on target as of September 2017, with the league noting that the groundwork in London was ready for such a team, and that the 2022 date was chosen because it coincided with the league's collective bargaining agreement and television contracts expiring.

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