Super Bowl in London?!?

[iceman]

Just heard on ESPN radio that the NFL is planning on playing the Super Bowl in London at Some unspecified time in the future.

What a stupid idea. It's not like the weather's all that great in February in London, plus it will have to kick off at midnight London time if they want to keep the schedule the same as it has been, plus who in London would give a shit?

Put the bong down, NFL people.

[Tippster]

Fuck.

That.

[dumpy]

London UK??

London Ontario??


Ontario might kinda make sense, I hear the nucks like our football a lot better than theirs.

[Art Shirk]

Those fucks have been trying to get the brits' money into amercian football for some time. Sending the super bowl over to that rock is such a stupid idea. Way to alienate your proven fan base to appeal to an unproven one.

[Tippster]

They can have the Superbowl if we get the FA Cup final that year.

[BigLeagueBrian]

no way that would happen! i heard the pats might do a game out there, but not the super bowl. thats like having the daytona 500 in pakistan.

[advres]

thats like having the daytona 500 in pakistan.

Sounds good to me.

[iceman]

Whatever, that's what they said on the radio in one of the news updates.

[Missing Sock]

Super Bowl is a corporate event anyway. Joe Schmo can't afford to go whether the game is in Detroit, Phoenix, or London. If they want to play it in London what difference will it make to the casual football fan? The fans make out better if they play the super bowl there rather than a regular season game.

[BigLeagueBrian]

^^oh i believe you heard it

they prob want a bidding war

[OSECS]

Fuck.

That.

My sentiments exactly.

[mr_gyptian]

Did Goodell go to the Gary Bettman school of how to destroy a pro sports league?

[Tuckerman]

no way that would happen! i heard the pats might do a game out there, but not the super bowl.

New England Patriots will spank the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday, October 25 at Wembley Stadium in London as NFL's International Series of regular-season games.

[Steven S. Dallas]

I have much less of a problem with London as a Super Bowl venue than as a regular-season venue. But yeah, London in February seems retarded. The Super Bowl should be held outdoors at warm-weather sites, but other than that I don't care where they have it since I'd rather watch it on TV than spend a couple grand to attend a neutral-site game with an hour-long halftime.

[edg]

... plus who in London would give a shit?

The regular season game sold out Wembley (90,000 seater).

Out of interest, what kind of cost difference would this represent for travelling fans in the US? I don't really know the prices of domestic vs. transatlantic flights.

edg

[iceman]

You can find flights from the East coast for less than $500 round trip, not sure about from the west, maybe $800 from Cali as a guess? Probably not a significant obstacle for someone who can afford the game ticket in the first place.

[Phineas]

Just heard on ESPN radio that the NFL is planning on playing the Super Bowl in London at Some unspecified time in the future.

What a stupid idea. It's not like the weather's all that great in February in London, plus it will have to kick off at midnight London time if they want to keep the schedule the same as it has been, plus who in London would give a shit?

Put the bong down, NFL people.

Yeah but did you hear anything about the Giants trading second round draft choice for Boldin??

London sux! Dublin's way cooler

[OSECS]

It's our fucking game. You don't mess with tradition, you don't pull the mask off the Lone Ranger, You don't spit in the wind and you damn sure don't play the championship game of Americas game in a foreign land that thinks soccer is the end all be all !!!!!!! Shit, just writing the word soccer makes me sqeamish.

[pappag]

The Super Bowl should be held outdoors at warm-weather sites ...

No it shouldn't.

The Super Bowl should be held in the face of all of nature's elements and not tucked away in some pussified dome or warm paradise with palm trees.

[OSECS]

No it shouldn't.

The Super Bowl should be held in the face of all of nature's elements and not tucked away in some pussified dome or warm paradise with palm trees.

Damn straight !! I want a mud bowl.

[Tuckerman]

just writing the word soccer makes me sqeamish.

And maybe a little gay.

[advres]

No it shouldn't.

The Super Bowl should be held in the face of all of nature's elements and not tucked away in some pussified dome or warm paradise with palm trees.

I concur.

[PowTron]

No it shouldn't.

The Super Bowl should be held in the face of all of nature's elements and not tucked away in some pussified dome or warm paradise with palm trees.

FTW = DING DING DING!!!

In fact, it should be like other sports...and it should be held at the home field of the team with the best record. Series or one game, that is how it should be.

Imagine! Green Bay during the ice bowl...THAT is football.

[belgian]

Who the fuck cares where its played? Either way its not like many "real" fans get to go anyway... who here would want to pay a few grand to go watch what almost always turns out to be the quietest, least exciting (for the fans in the stands) game of the season with the most unbearably long and frequent commercial interruptions? That is, of course, unless you enjoy schmoozing with the upper-level management executive types in Florida/Cali who have little to no idea what is really going on in the game.

Watch the game on your TV set, its more fun with the commercials anyway. And if its in the UK its not like you'll notice much difference, even if you do have HD.

[pappag]

In fact, it should be like other sports...and it should be held at the home field of the team with the best record. Series or one game, that is how it should be.

Imagine! Green Bay during the ice bowl...THAT is football.

I agree. But with the way the SB has been marketed, we will never see that. Hell, I bet the 2016 site has already been chosen.

And along with that, the two weeks between conference championships and the SB has got to go. Football is the only major US sport that does this. To the fan (and I imagine to the players), the additional week is just unnecessary and takes away from the momentum carried on after the championship games.