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Roger Goodell's latest acid trip: a team in London
He is trying hard to replace Bud Selig as the craziest man in pro sports. And Clark weighs in at the end:
Hype Machine in Overdrive, N.F.L. Pops Back to London The Jacksonville Jaguars have committed to play a game here each of the next four seasons, giving rise to talk that they or another team will one day move to London and become the N.F.L.’s first franchise overseas. “We are going to be aggressive because we see the fans’ reactions to football and we want to be there on a more regular basis,” N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell said in May. “Roger has a vision for a permanent team in London, but he’s one of the very few that does,” said Marc Ganis, the president of SportsCorp, a sports advisory company that works with N.F.L. teams. “Commissioners get pie-eyed about international. What he got was an agreement to put on two games, maybe three, but he didn’t get a timeline” to establish a team in London. Goodell has said that he hopes to turn the N.F.L. into a $25 billion business by 2027, from $10 billion now. To do that, the league would need fresh sources of income, including from overseas. “Certainly, the league has grown substantially here in the United States and continues to do so,” said Clark Hunt, the chairman of the Kansas City Chiefs and the head of the league’s international committee. “But at some point, to keep that growth rate up, the international opportunity for the league is very important.” http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/09/29...to-london.html |
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Go to the convenience store and get yourself some Spam!
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That is the thing that trips me out about visiting your beautiful place. ****ing Spam on offer as food...
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Oh yes, I've seen it on menus there. I laugh every time. I understand it's a cultural thing...
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7 hour flight time from New York to London.....that isn't that bad, LA to NYC is about a 6 hour flight, so it would make sense to move the Jaguars into the AFC East, move the Dolphins into the South and there you go, Patriots, Jets and Bills would have longer travel times but **** em.
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Didn't they try a European football league and it flopped badly?
Goodell is brain damaged
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We should probably test the waters in Canada first...
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10-04-2013, 04:49 PM | #101 |
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Hasn't he ruined the NFL enough?
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Let me know when teams start losing value. He may be wrecking football, but he hasn't hurt the NFL yet.
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I have always believed if you think of the abso-****ing-lute stupidest thing any management team can do,
they will top it so this is the bottom end of it
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2027? Theres no way Goddell lasts that long
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