NFL considering 18 games and 36 teams

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by jd1020

I would imagine that demand isn't big enough to sell out multiple stadiums at the same time.

How the hell can anyone even think its a good idea to have 1 team so ****ing far away? What are they going to do? Have that 1 team play all their homes games in 1 half of the season and their away games in the other half and just **** every other team that has to travel there? Its just so stupid...

I can come up with scenarios where you could make it BETTER. You put them in a division with teams in the northeast, so the flights would only be ~6.5 hours and the time difference would only be 5 hours. Then you do the games at 1pm EST/6pm London, which at least puts them in normal waking hours for everyone. And then you do some hotel magic to try and let the players keep a sleep schedule resembling normal.

You could also consider something like you're alluding to, where the London team does 4-5 home games, then flies to the U.S. for a road tour for a month, then goes back.

But that still would be really tough to manage. If nothing else I think you'd need to allow a bonus for London players to make it worth putting up with all of that.