question: do you support the idea of the NFL expanding overseas?

Sorta depends on where the team is located. The UK would be alright because there’s a 6 hour time difference with us on the east coast. Games played at 7 pm in the UK would equate to a 1 pm start time for the east coast of the US and a 10 am start time for those on the west coast. That’s manageable.

But games in China, Korea or Japan? Those countries are so far away that the time difference is only calculable by NASA. Did you know that today is actually yesterday there? The players union should be opposed to forcing players to travel back and forth through time. And who knows what effect time displacement will have on CTE?

But is it fair for the NFL to place teams in London or Munich or Seoul where American football is just a novelty at best when cities with an established football tradition and long-time fans like St. Louis don’t have one?

• This reply was modified 8 years, 7 months ago by nittany ram.

zn wrote:

Dear communist: St. Louis failed on the one thing that matters—revenue.

But that wasn’t St. Louis’ fault. Revenue would have been higher if the Rams had simply charged more for tickets and/or merchandise instead of the pittance they asked for. St. Louis was done in by Kroenke’s generous nature.

Although, to be fair, no one in St Louis offered to pay more money either. I mean if St. Louis was serious about keeping the Rams they could have set up a tithing system or perhaps a system where wages of the residents were garnished to ensure an uninterrupted stream of cash was flowing into the Rams coffers at all times…

So I guess there are no real football fans in St. Louis afterall.

Would have to change the name to the IFL.

We can’t find good QBs now.

What on earth will we do when we expand even further?

I think the NFL is maxed out talentwise to be an elite league.

Now you can argue that you’d be expanding the pool of talent by bringing in foreign players but that will take years. And can you imagine the NFL teams playing the game they play with U.S. cities now with other countries? Well–if Oakland won’t build a stadium Beijing will.

Teams may move every other season.

Nah.

No thanks.

nittany ram wrote:

But games in China, Korea or Japan? Those countries are so far away that the time difference is only calculable by NASA. Did you know that today is actually yesterday there? The players union should be opposed to forcing players to travel back and forth through time. And who knows what effect time displacement will have on CTE?

imagine getting a concussion in Shanghai and getting on a plane nauseated for a 14 hour flight back home…..

If the league considers expansion, stay in the western and northern hemisphere….. Guadalajara, Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal…. how about Cuba?