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Steelers won’t face Jaguars in London

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First off why has the NFL decided to juke the team's fanbase out of a home game?




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The Jags owner openly said he hates it in Jacksonville. Now, they are supposedly playing 2 games in London this year. The league damn well better not put a team over there. That is such a dumb move.
 
Coryea said:
There was never a chance of us going to London, a Steelers game at Jacksonville is one game Jacksonville will sell out.
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Exactly, they weren't going to take away an easy sell out from Jacksonville.
 
TDX27 said:
The Jags owner openly said he hates it in Jacksonville. Now, they are supposedly playing 2 games in London this year. The league damn well better not put a team over there. That is such a dumb move.
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NFL has been trying to get itself into Europe for a while. I can't help but wonder if this isn't a push to get folks in London to start to root for the Jags ahead of a move there one day. Whatever the case, its all going to be about the money. They won't put a team if it doesn't make dough. They will put a team there if they can make bank. It would suck for the players there though. Half your games overseas (I assume they would do some b2b trips in the schedule), family back home while you are working there, tax issues for players...seems to me it would just suck as a player or coach.
 
Hoot said:
NFL has been trying to get itself into Europe for a while. I can't help but wonder if this isn't a push to get folks in London to start to root for the Jags ahead of a move there one day. Whatever the case, its all going to be about the money. They won't put a team if it doesn't make dough. They will put a team there if they can make bank. It would suck for the players there though. Half your games overseas (I assume they would do some b2b trips in the schedule), family back home while you are working there, tax issues for players...seems to me it would just suck as a player or coach.
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plus, we'd have to suffer our fair share of hearing limey, snaggle-toothed brits talking about how much they love their "jag-ee-ah's"
 
I'm not sure if they'll have a team in London anytime soon. I mean what free agent is going want to sign there? Move there during the season, etc. They'd have to over pay big time for free agents.
 
Coryea said:
I'm not sure if they'll have a team in London anytime soon. I mean what free agent is going want to sign there? Move there during the season, etc. They'd have to over pay big time for free agents.
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good point on free agents. Still, don't think that will stop the NFL from trying. The US market is pretty saturated and growth is going to have to come from somewhere else. What gets me is why not try Toronto first? Are they really afraid of the CFL?
 
Hoot said:
good point on free agents. Still, don't think that will stop the NFL from trying. The US market is pretty saturated and growth is going to have to come from somewhere else. What gets me is why not try Toronto first? Are they really afraid of the CFL?
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Yes, that makes more sense to me as well.
 
Jacksonville should never have been given a team in the first place. It was the idiotic decision to put the team there instead of Baltimore, that led to Baltimore deciding to play dirty, and steal the Browns from Cleveland.
 
Coryea said:
Yes, that makes more sense to me as well.
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They're not afraid of the CFL. but they really don't want to kill it either, nor do the politicians in Canada want to see it killed. The NFL isn't going to put the 4-6 teams in Canada that would quiet complaints about the CFL being killed off.
 
steelermania said:
They're not afraid of the CFL. but they really don't want to kill it either, nor do the politicians in Canada want to see it killed. The NFL isn't going to put the 4-6 teams in Canada that would quiet complaints about the CFL being killed off.
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Toronto is the only supportable NFL market. They haven't done well in test games. They go to Bills game when they want. The CFL is the second best professional football league in the world. No point in trying to hurt it. If anything the NFL should do what it used to do to a much greater extent. Fund the league and allow greater access to players capable of playing in the NFL.
 
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I'll go down to Estadio Azteca to watch us play if they book us in a game there. Would be awesome to watch a game in Mexico. I saw an MLB game in Monterrey 2 seasons ago.
 
Omar10213245 said:
plus, we'd have to suffer our fair share of hearing limey, snaggle-toothed brits talking about how much they love their "jag-ee-ah's"
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Watch out now, Bermuda has deep ties to the UK...while I don't like the option, personally, many Bermudians fly to the UK to watch the games...so, there's that...
 
bermudasteel said:
Watch out now, Bermuda has deep ties to the UK...while I don't like the option, personally, many Bermudians fly to the UK to watch the games...so, there's that...
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yeah that guy is just an *******. Don't mind him
 
kill the cfl
 
no one in toronto cares about the Argos aside from maybe 15000 ppl
 
Drink IRON City said:
First off why has the NFL decided to juke the team's fanbase out of a home game?
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Because the Jags are near the bottom in attendance and in the Eastern Time Zone.
 
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