NFL Regular Season Games Overseas: Good or Bad Idea?

SantananMan, your posts have been fascinating. how did you become such a Redskins fan?

i think i was the first poster here to want this to happen, i think american football has evolved into one of the relatively few genuinely american art forms (remember the U.S. is only 230yrs old!) like jazz, and it should be appreciated world-wide.

may sound hokey, but its not. i dont know any other sport that is as fiercely physical as it is cerebral (John Madden not withstanding) and i think it'd be a good american contribution to the world.

maybe it needs a name for those outside of the U.S. like 'soccer' is futbol to us? what could they call it?

It wouldn't be so bad if the NFLE teams where primarily made up of Europeans and there may be some consistancy there and if the coaches and players stayed more than a couple of years and if the NFL didn't stop taking teams away from countries and possibly made sure that the press in the individual countries put out information like the world bowl in Scotland a few years back no one knew about.

The anoying thing is the NFLE could be an exceptional tool if it was as more of a feeder league for the NFL like the collage system is in the US if the NFL hooked up with univerisites and collages in Europe to get them to run exchange scollerships for American students on sports and cultural basis.


yes exactly Bedlam. the secret is getting europeans PLAYING, not just watching. the reason they don't fill the stadiums is because they are watching foreigners who are unknown even in their own country. thats why real NFL games would be a great showcase of football at its very best, and it'd get the ball rolling.

i remember like one actual european per team in the NFLE, forget that, give them a reason to cheer for, make it LOCAL. they should all be european, maybe with american coaches until there are enough european ones. but are there enough europeans players?

but are there enough europeans players?

no. it's like american soccer in the 70s right when pele came over. none of the american players were any good, so good teams were made by hiring from outside the US.

terrible idea. simple as that

terrible idea. simple as that

great argument :rolleyes:

great argument :rolleyes:

thanks ho :spank:

sigh take that young shit to extreme

Am I missing something here? Why does everyone (including so-called experts) assume that this plan implies a home game is lost on the schedule? Let's assume that the NFL has one game overseas per season. I would think that the two participating teams would have a schedule of 8 home games, 7 road games, and the overseas game at an obviously neutral site. Is this such a horrible thing? I would gladly trade one of my road games for a neutral site game, particularly against a tough opponent.
That's actually a good idea, and I guess I wouldn't be against it 100%. Obviously one team would have to be designated the "home team" for the sake of the coin toss and all that, but that doesn't mean they have to lose a real home game back in their own stadium.
Maybe you should work for the NFL.

That's actually a good idea, and I guess I wouldn't be against it 100%. Obviously one team would have to be designated the "home team" for the sake of the coin toss and all that, but that doesn't mean they have to lose a real home game back in their own stadium.
Maybe you should work for the NFL.


do the math, it doesn't work.

do the math, it doesn't work.

I'm not familiar with "math." But I suppose you're right, so, back to my original opinion of 'this is a bad idea.'