Is anyone else now buying the idea Tepper has eyes on a Europe move??

[PNW_PantherMan]

If Teppers plan was to move the team, they’d probably be doing historically well.  He can’t do anything right.  The one time he tried to tank was the most successful stretch under his ownership.

[Shocker]

I don’t think I even care if he does…thinking of ending things with this franchise 

[AggieLean]

1 hour ago, LinvilleGorge said:

It would be a relief if he'd move the team. I'm begging for a reason to quit at this point.

Honestly, me too. My home state team being here is the only reason I’m still hanging on to the nfl. I don’t really watch other teams. The nfl isn’t that appealing to me anymore 

[Tbe]

Unlikely.

1) Tepper just signed a 20 year commitment with charlotte.

2) The city owns the land the stadium sits on, and can foreclose on the stadium if he breaks the agreement (plus fines). Bye bye Charlotte FC.

3) Charlotte FC cannot maintain that stadium alone. I can’t imagine the legal crap from MLS he’d have to deal with if that team couldn’t play in the city.

4) If the nfl setup shop in Europe, they’d be subject to Europes laws. Think safety (CTE), unions, corporate governance, contract law, employment law, etc. Keeping the EU regulators happy would change the game forever. 

Edited 16 hours ago by Tbe

[strato]

13 minutes ago, Tbe said:

Unlikely.

1) Tepper just signed a 20 year commitment with charlotte.

2) The city owns the land the stadium sits on, and can foreclose on the stadium if he breaks the agreement (plus fines). Bye bye Charlotte FC.

3) Charlotte FC cannot maintain that stadium alone. I can’t imagine the legal crap from MLS he’d have to deal with if that team couldn’t play in the city.

4) If the nfl setup shop in Europe, they’d be subject to Europes laws. Think safety (CTE), unions, corporate governance, contract law, employment law, etc. Keeping the EU regulators happy would change the game forever. 

Plus tariffs lol. How would that work? 

[Tbe]

8 minutes ago, strato said:

Plus tariffs lol. How would that work? 
 

 

Lol…didn’t think of that. There is a 100% tariff on foreign movies and tv shows now right?

[strato]

2 minutes ago, Tbe said:

 

Lol…didn’t think of that. There is a 100% tariff on foreign movies and tv shows now right?

I don’t know. I thought the EU and US signed a deal where we pretty much cancel out most things. Which should be better for us. 
It is another piece of gum in the works though, I was just trolling Europe to be honest. 
The future of a business over there, I would be worried. They are losing their grip on their culture and it’s about blow up I think. I don’t know that I would want to be heavily invested. 
 

[mav1234]

I don't think Tpper is that diabolical. This is just real life Madden to him and he happens to suck worse than most of us.

[ProcessBlue2]

Tepper is not going to pay European taxes after living in the South Eastern US for this long.

Besides like everyone says about aligning Union, labor, safety laws with US, it won’t happen.

I highly doubt other owners are going to approve it either, think about the travel every single week. Either they would have to come to the US for a few weeks at a time or a different team would have to which would impact their next week of practice. Would complicate scheduling for the rest of the league as well. Would never be approved. 
 

I do think that eventually Europe will get a revamped version of NFL Europe that is modernized and it will do well if managed correctly.

[Waldo]

11 hours ago, mrcompletely11 said:

It's not about talent it's about $

It is about talent. The NFL already has a talent issue that continues to grow IMO. Moves are deffinatly on the table but I haven't heard a peep about new expansion teams.

[PanthersATL]

Europe (or international) will come eventually.

Trying to figure out if it'd best be four teams (two NFC, two AFC) or eight teams (NFC Intl, AFC Intl) and how it'd play out in terms of schedule and playoffs

They've already scheduled Australia and Brazil, and looking for Japan. So to isolate to just "Europe" may be premature... unless they've determined that's a logical expansion space given demand.

I'd say that it would likely happen with an extension to an 18 week regular season, giving all teams two bye weeks to recover from overseas travel as all teams will be required to play internationally at least one game every year.  More likely two.

I imagine the NFL schedule maker team (great video of their process posted on the YouTube) have already run through all sorts of example scenarios to see what is/isn't possible in the future
 

Edited 5 hours ago by PanthersATL

[Move the Panthers to Raleigh]

16 hours ago, Basbear said:

They would find ways to help. Larger PS, more cap space, etc. Besides its not one team moving it would be atleast 3(Panthers, jags, titans/bills/ravens/jets/saints). One team travels over there and plays 3 teams in three weeks. The travel is not worst than going EC to south Alaska AKA Seattle. or other WC trips.

They already have a plan in place, trust me...And I feel tepper is 100% involved.

Source: "Trust me, bro"

[DeAngelo Beason]

Nah.

[Chaos]

I'll help them pack