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Thread: Super Bowl in London?!?
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04-24-2009, 11:38 AM #1Funky But Chic
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Super Bowl in London?!?
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.
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04-24-2009, 11:51 AM #2
Fuck.
That.
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04-24-2009, 11:54 AM #3
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04-24-2009, 12:12 PM #4Good-lookin' wool
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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.
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04-24-2009, 12:16 PM #5
They can have the Superbowl if we get the FA Cup final that year.
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04-24-2009, 12:30 PM #6
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.
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04-24-2009, 12:33 PM #7advres Guest
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04-24-2009, 12:34 PM #8Funky But Chic
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Whatever, that's what they said on the radio in one of the news updates.
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04-24-2009, 12:34 PM #9Registered User
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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.
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04-24-2009, 12:36 PM #10
^^oh i believe you heard it
they prob want a bidding war
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04-24-2009, 12:39 PM #11
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04-24-2009, 12:49 PM #12
Did Goodell go to the Gary Bettman school of how to destroy a pro sports league?
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04-24-2009, 01:10 PM #13People should learn endurance; they should learn to endure the discomforts of heat and cold, hunger and thirst; they should learn to be patient when receiving abuse and scorn; for it is the practice of endurance that quenches the fire of worldly passions which is burning up their bodies.
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04-24-2009, 01:24 PM #14
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.
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04-24-2009, 01:29 PM #15Do you realize that you've just posted an admission of ignorance so breathtaking that it disqualifies you from commenting on any political or economic threads from here on out?
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04-24-2009, 01:42 PM #16Funky But Chic
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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.
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04-24-2009, 01:46 PM #17
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04-24-2009, 02:04 PM #18
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.
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04-24-2009, 02:11 PM #19Ski edits | http://vimeo.com/user389737/videos
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04-24-2009, 02:14 PM #20
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04-24-2009, 02:16 PM #21People should learn endurance; they should learn to endure the discomforts of heat and cold, hunger and thirst; they should learn to be patient when receiving abuse and scorn; for it is the practice of endurance that quenches the fire of worldly passions which is burning up their bodies.
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04-24-2009, 02:17 PM #22advres Guest
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04-24-2009, 02:28 PM #23You should have been here yesterday!
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04-24-2009, 02:39 PM #24
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.I thought their offices would be strewn with bunny-fucking and condom dispensers, a veritable enchanted forest of cock shafts and twat mist. - JoeStrummer
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04-24-2009, 02:43 PM #25
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.Ski edits | http://vimeo.com/user389737/videos
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