I just don't see a team in London. There are a ton of factors that make it a problem. First and foremost games thre now are a novelty so they will draw more once you put you a team thre perm., you have to face dealing with 6 soccer teams in the london area drawing your fanbase away.

You have scheduling nightmares in sending teams to England to play, you use the bye week to get teams there but that only works during the bye week period.

 

You have the london team going on 4-5 game road trips. How do you schedule for a team on the west coast to go play there in the begining or end of the year?

 

Cost becomes double for teams to play there in transporting players and paying for food and lodging so the league would most likely pick up the difference.

 

The big one to me is that a team in London would have to have 2 team facilitys one in London and one somewhere ont he east coast. During the season you bring in players weekly to add to your team and you want to get them in and out quickly and flying them over would become a problem. Plus you need a base of operations for when you make your 4 game road trips to practice and such.

As mucha s the NFL supposedly wants to go to London I dont see it the bigger threat would be LA and if you want to out of country then Mexico City.

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