You will see a lot more Eli Manning and Bo Jackson situations where not just first overall but first rounders will not want to live in Europe and will sit out. This would be a time to start an XFL. When free agency hits players will take less money to come back to the U.S. Unless the NFL develops European talent, it may be hard to sustain talent.
That's a great point that I had not considered.
Those European income, property tax laws are already known by players, coaches - and owners too.
Bet the longterm strategy is just to play games there, generate passive revenue & interest. No way millionaires & billionaires are going to give their money to the taxman…
Tbf Europe is amazing and me personally I'd gladly live there... But I'd wager a lot of players that grew up in rural America wouldn't love the idea.
In the end my point(s) continue to be simple.
NFL isn't a publicly traded company so I give zero shits about how they grow shareholder value for billionaires.
The games create unfair competitive advantages.
The games aren't enticing and they're on too early for me to care.
Every executive I’ve met traveling for business, and lives in the US, always speaks glowingly of Europe and how much better it is there, than here. I wait til the end of the conversation and ask them why they stay in the US?
Bar none, every one has answered “the taxes”.
We laugh, and the conversation drifts.
It can’t be sustained unless you have an endless supply of money.
Thats why the NFL’s model only works by dipping their toe in the market, but never intending to stay there.
Every executive I’ve met traveling for business, and lives in the US, always speaks glowingly of Europe and how much better it is there, than here. I wait til the end of the conversation and ask them why they stay in the US?
Bar none, every one has answered “the taxes”.
We laugh, and the conversation drifts.
It can’t be sustained unless you have an endless supply of money.
Thats why the NFL’s model only works by dipping their toe in the market, but never intending to stay there.
Yeah Europe is amazing. We travel there all the time. Sucks that our currency is being devalued.
Via Sports Business Journal, Falcons owner Arthur Blank said during a Saturday appearance on NFL Network that an “international game every year for every team” is “probably on the horizon.”
It makes senses. Even if certain teams will create far less excitement than others, it makes sense for every team to be expected to do it once per year, for competitive reasons.
For now, the league is limited under the Collective Bargaining Agreement to a maximum of 10 international games per year. In the next labor deal, it’s widely expected that the number will increase to 16.
With that (or possibly before that) will arrive an international broadcast package, primarily featuring European games that begin at 9:30 a.m. ET.
If every team that has an extra home game plays it in Europe, sure what ever. Make it even... Put better teams over there.
Again I'm not willing to watch bottom dweller teams play a shit game in a distant time zone.
If every team that has an extra home game plays it in Europe, sure what ever. Make it even... Put better teams over there.
Again I'm not willing to watch bottom dweller teams play a shit game in a distant time zone.
It's incredibly fucking stupid, but whatever.
If every team that has an extra home game plays it in Europe, sure what ever. Make it even... Put better teams over there.
Again I'm not willing to watch bottom dweller teams play a shit game in a distant time zone.
It's incredibly fucking stupid, but whatever.
It's all about money, sadly... I'm no fan but if they find a way to make it equitable I'll be less mad
No one in Europe views american football as anything other than a novelty. None are truly vested in it. Goofy idea.
None are truly vested in it.
The Super Bowl had 2+ million viewers in Germany. Almost 4 million in the UK. It's on in the middle of the night.
And those viewers are heavily tilted toward YOUNG viewers (sub 35 yrs old), so it i a very lucrative television market.
The NFL is chasing real dollars.
No one in Europe views american football as anything other than a novelty. None are truly vested in it. Goofy idea.
I felt the same way until a couple years ago. Met a guy from the UK and he said the NFL and American football in general was gaining an audience in Europe. told me there were club teams all over Europe, mens and womens teams, complete with leagues, playing actual American football. full pads and everything. So, maybe there'll be enough interest over there to support a team?
But as a fan, I'm not sanguine about an NFL team located in Europe, or having to play games over there.
Its a slow march forward, but a march it is. I think the Mexcio City game was 2005? so, 20ish year in and the NFL has gone from that to multiple London games, Germany, Brazil and Australia coming up.
I think the Bucs have marketing rights in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, so they see something coming.