What other country would support the additional 4 teams needed to balance it out?
Would said countries have the rights to bid on a Super Bowl?
I don't think you need 4 addl countries to balance out an international division. You'd only need 4 additional teams? I don't know that the players exist (w/out real dilution) but 4 domestic or North America teams would be easy
The NFL has to be drooling about the prospects of a Super Bowl abroad
What other country would support the additional 4 teams needed to balance it out?
Would said countries have the rights to bid on a Super Bowl?
I don't think you need 4 addl countries to balance out an international division. You'd only need 4 additional teams? I don't know that the players exist (w/out real dilution) but 4 domestic or North America teams would be easy
The NFL has to be drooling about the prospects of a Super Bowl abroad
North korea
Ghana
Maldives
Bangladesh
What other country would support the additional 4 teams needed to balance it out?
Would said countries have the rights to bid on a Super Bowl?
I don't think you need 4 addl countries to balance out an international division. You'd only need 4 additional teams? I don't know that the players exist (w/out real dilution) but 4 domestic or North America teams would be easy
The NFL has to be drooling about the prospects of a Super Bowl abroad
North korea
Ghana
Maldives
Bangladesh
exactly
The Interweb is a time machine. You can compare the present to the way people projected the future back in the past.
Travel with me to 2023
"Sources around the NFL have speculated in recent weeks that it's only a matter of time before the league shifts its focus to playing a Super Bowl in London. One league official who was in London in recent weeks commented that it felt like the NFL was using these three international games -- Falcons-Jaguars, Bills-Jaguars, and Titans-Ravens on Sunday -- as a trial balloon for bigger concepts in the city.
The NFL will play five games in Europe this season -- three in London and two in Germany -- and is preparing to play future international games in Spain and Brazil, according to NFL executive vice president Peter O'Reilly. The league sent officials last month to investigate the possibility of playing the first NFL regular-season games in Madrid, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil, as soon as next season.
O'Reilly also has said the NFL is studying the possibility of playing a regular-season game in Australia, although the logistics of a game there would be more challenging."
BACK TO THE PRESENT:
NINE International games in 2026, including Australia.
The "trial balloon for bigger concepts in [London]" was probably not the Super Bowl (yet) and more likely the first international division.
It could be that the NFL strategy is just what it is. Playing games in international sites equals eyeballs which equals everything that goes with it: ticket sales, parking revenues, concessions, merch, fan interest, financial benefits for local businesses, etc. Why add a division in Europe? The current league structure is beautifully balanced with two conferences, eight divisions, four teams in each division. Personally I don't think changes of this magnitude are coming anytime soon.
Yup. But the loon has a multi-year narrative to push.
But the loon is no “proponent” - obviously.
try to also make one football post today. Baby steps.
failed, of course.
Try tomorrow morning, Biggs. Football. Focus on football. Don't do your usual non-football, post church trolling. Break the cycle.
The NFL has to be drooling about the prospects of a Super Bowl abroad
Rams vs. Chiefs Super Bowl…
…in London.
You’re higher than a kite being flown by Willie Nelson on 4/20 if you think that would fly with the NFL’s core audience.
The NFL has to be drooling about the prospects of a Super Bowl abroad
Rams vs. Chiefs Super Bowl…
…in London.
You’re higher than a kite being flown by Willie Nelson on 4/20 if you think that would fly with the NFL’s core audience.
They don't give a shit about fans as long as revenue/profits increase
The NFL has to be drooling about the prospects of a Super Bowl abroad
Rams vs. Chiefs Super Bowl…
…in London.
You’re higher than a kite being flown by Willie Nelson on 4/20 if you think that would fly with the NFL’s core audience.
They don't give a shit about fans as long as revenue/profits increase
its not hard to imagine an international division based in the UK, so its no hard to imagine the first International Super Bowl in London in support of one of the teams.
PFT Today
"During a Friday conference call to discuss the new schedule, NFL V.P. of broadcast planning Mike North addressed the trend toward making more and more games fair game for displacement to an international venue.
“Clubs right now, by resolution, have an opportunity to protect a minimum — a limited number — of home opponents from being taken for international venues,” North said. “That’s something this league’s been discussing quite a bit and, like I said, at the beginning, it used to be four or five games protected, got down to three games protected. I think we’re down now to two, and that may continue to diminish as we are trying to build a schedule and deliver quality inventory to our international fans.
“You know, you can’t have a team say, ‘Well, I don’t want my two best games ineligible for international.’ What kind of message does that send to the international fans? So I think there’s a lot of conversation about really just eliminating the protections in their entirety. . . . So [I’m] hopeful that the protections continue to diminish and maybe even are eliminated entirely. I think that would be better for everybody — not just the international fans, but also for the teams that might want to play internationally and keep getting blocked.”
Key part of that:
"also for the teams that might want to play internationally”
The Bucs are one of those teams, so are the Jaguars, the Chiefs, the 49ers. The Steelers, probably. Cowboys, Ravens.
its not hard to imagine an international division based in the UK, so its no hard to imagine the first International Super Bowl in London in support of one of the teams.
Again, this would be a colossal middle finger to the overwhelming majority of the league fanbase.
its not hard to imagine an international division based in the UK, so its no hard to imagine the first International Super Bowl in London in support of one of the teams.
Again, this would be a colossal middle finger to the overwhelming majority of the league fanbase.
And again they don't care. It's a business.
I would despise this move. I already despise the international games... The next step is to test having a division in Europe by seeing how a super bowl does.
Football is already similar to concerts where average people can't afford it anymore. The wealthy (upper middle class and higher) will gladly pay a premium to have game there... They want that and the merch sales et al
The next step is to test having a division in Europe by seeing how a super bowl does.
Oh, that should be good.
No longer a prime time game. The most revered sport and sporting event in the US, taking place in another country.
I mean, we gotta try and appease a fanbase that's a fraction of the size of the one here.
Yeah. It'll go over really well.
Football is already similar to concerts where average people can't afford it anymore. The wealthy (upper middle class and higher) will gladly pay a premium to have game there... They want that and the merch sales et al
This
And I agree it sucks
we gotta try and appease a fanbase that's a fraction of the size of the one here.
I dont think they would have an Inter national SB until there was an international division. The SB has always been in support of a team
The fanbase is not that much smaller when you con sider there are no teams outside the US. I think the International viewership of the SB was about half the domestic and a lot of that us with the game being in the middle of the night.
I believe 3 or 4 of the most watchd sporting events are sports that dont even have much of a place in the US so"international" is a BIG market with very loyal fans
The fanbase is not that much smaller when you con sider there are no teams outside the US.
Regardless, it's a fraction of what is here.
The international games have become bullshit.
You get a massive divisional game between the Niners and Rams, and it's played in Australia?
That alone is a huge "fuck you" to their respective fan bases.
Either way, there will never be a Super Bowl outside of the US, just like there will never be an international division.
It won't work.