Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501 (Post 16884756)

As I’ve said before… If you want to grow the game internationally then borrow a page from other leagues books.

The world baseball classic gets this international bullshit out of the way before the season starts. And it’s hella fun to watch.

Soccer uses international friendlies. Why not just send some of our B teams to play against germanys best? Put the pro bowl in Europe and include friendlies between B teams and an all Europe team. A million and a half ways that don’t involve the ridiculous idea of stripping away home games and forcing a bunch of jet lagged athletes to play halfway across the world

Originally Posted by KCChiefsFan88 (Post 16884749)

The same type of logistical/competitive balance reasons you list for why European soccer should not expand to America also applies to the NFL expanding to Europe.

A logistical nightmare and would impact competitive balance.

Originally Posted by Dunerdr (Post 16884138)

**** that imagine a 36 team draft. It spreads the talent out even further and adds 4 more Goff/Cousins turds to an already sliding product. Also Bill O'Brien, come on down.

A developmental league thats seasonal would make more sense. Let the undrafted, practice squad and tryout guys go play a summer league to try to get some film out.

Originally Posted by Dante84 (Post 16884624)

Seriously, circling back - why hasn't the NFL set up a true minor/developmental league? I know they scrapped NFL Europe, but that always seemed half-assed, and the world was different then.

Imagine if there were 32 international minor teams, populated with "not major leaguers" in 8 divisions:

UK/Irish Division [London, Dublin, Birmingham, Glasgow]
German Division [Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt]
Rest of Europe Division [Madrid, Rome, Paris, Barcelona]
Oceania Division [Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Auckland]

Asian Division [Tokyo, Seoul, Bangkok, Manila]
Latin American Division [Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Rio De Janiero, Buenos Aires]
African Division [Cairo, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Nairobi]
US Division [Salt Lake City, Portland, Central TX (ATX/SA), Omaha]

- Each program would be assigned to an NFL team, and could even rotate cities every 2 years to get each team more global exposure.

- Expand the NFL Draft to 14 rounds, where the last day of the draft is 7 rounds, lightning fast

- Each team participates in training camp, and after final cutdowns, teams could pick keepers and then have a minor league re-draft.

- Division games played for the first 8 weeks, then travel to the other division cities the other weeks, rotate home and away.


Pros
- Exposes the rest of the world to American Football, increasing eyeballs and merch sales.
- Allows mid-level players the ability to continue playing if they don't make the big leagues.
- Helps develop young talent, and widens the future talent pool once youth leagues pop up globally. This would also help the NCAA with international talent.

Cons
- Cost of doing business

Originally Posted by |Zach| (Post 16884769)

No. They don't.

I am sorry man...do you realize words mean specific things?

We are not tied to promotion relegation structure the nature of sport the competitive balance issue is *completely* different.

The fact that the season is well over 2x longer makes it completely different for soccer to come to the United States.

Look man everybody makes stupid posts and shows that they don't know what they are talking about. There is no reason to double down and pretend "OH YA WHAT I SAID IS THE SAME THING" LMAO

Originally Posted by |Zach| (Post 16884765)

Who is it exactly they would be playing?

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501 (Post 16884779)

Before or after the season there are plenty of nfl players who don’t get to play much and would love an opportunity to shine on the big stage. Why not put some of them up against some of europes best. It’s one idea for an exhibition that doesn’t put A team players at risk.

Or hell, why not out a preseason or training camp game or pro bowl overseas?

Main point is stop messing with schedules. if the goal is to grow international popularity there are a million other creative ways to do it

Originally Posted by KCChiefsFan88 (Post 16884777)

You are such a myopic soccer homer that you are seriously denying there would be similar logistical challenges, creating competitive imbalances with the NFL expanding into Europe? ROFL

Look man, we get it… you are a soccer dumbshit… tap out acknowledged.

Originally Posted by Womble (Post 16884768)

F'ing limeys.

Originally Posted by |Zach| (Post 16884787)

I don't understand what you mean by Europe's best. What football teams are you referring to?

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501 (Post 16884908)

There are football leagues in europe. They may not be very good but mls soccer used to be really bad too and that never stopped them from playing EPL friendlies. Baseball started building talent pipelines in Asia. Nba did the same in Europe. American football is the only sport that really hasn’t put much effort into going the exhibition route.

Originally Posted by raybec 4 (Post 16884086)

That's just going to water down the product even further. not to mention a travel nightmare for all the teams affected.

Originally Posted by KCChiefsFan88 (Post 16884754)

Can’t wait for a London at Seattle game to get flexed to Thursday Night Football.