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Super Bowl Heading To London?

Kevin Greene

By Kevin Greene,
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2plankingpanther Newbie

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The SB should be played in the states,but if they must play in another country,why not Canada,it's closer.If it must be played in Europe,why not in Germany,they like real football and that other sport you kick the ball around w/yer foot.It doesn't seem like the English appreciate real football.And by all means,don't host it in Spain or France,they hate real football!

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Brooklyn Bully Newbie

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I understand about making the NFL global and all but they have soccer, we have football....keep OUR sport here. :)

You don't get to be global if you don't go overseas. The World Cup has come here before and may again one day. This is nothing more than Goodell mistakingly thinking he can make the NFL the world's number one sport. He can't. It will ALWAYS be soccer. Forever. Until the end of time. So he needs to just give up his dumb dream and keep the Super Bowl in the States.

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Or not.

http://www.profootballtalk.com/2009/05/03/league-denies-london-report-via-twitter/

The most macho sports league on the planet continues to embrace the social-networking web site with the decidedly non-macho name.

In addition to the presence of Twitter accounts for many players and guys like NFLN anchor Rich Eisen, NFL V.P. of corporate communications Brian McCarthy is now using the thing to shoot down erroneous reports — at the apparent prompting of a certain NFL Internet hack, who continued to slowly master the whole “@” thing by sending a message to McCarthy regarding the primary subject of this post.

In response to a Sunday report in the Telegraph that the league will send a Super Bowl to London as soon as 2014, McCarthy tweeted as follows: “We are not pursuing idea of putting a Super Bowl in London or anywhere outside US. Reports last week/today inaccurate.”

We’re not sure why the folks at the Telegraph didn’t opt to seek out McCarthy or Greg Aiello or anyone else at the league office before going with a story that makes a London Super Bowl sound like a done deal. It’s anything but, according to the McCarthy.

Then again, the Telegraph believes that recent denials from NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell are part of a broader scheme to get the owners to buy in to the prospect of an exported championship game slowly.

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It doesn't matter where it's played chances are you and most likely most people you know can't afford to go.

That's beside the point....removing half a billion dollars from the host city's economy is the issue.

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Guys guys guys, whilst I completely agree that the superbowl should not be played outside of the US, please refrain from using the phrase

'Why punish the TRUE fans?!'

Kinda insulting to anyone from overseas who has followed the sport religously like millions have in Europe.

Also regarding 'removing the cash flow' from the US economy will not be strictly accurate as the US will gain a ton of extra revenue from the event regardless. The only place losing out, would be the city that would be hosting it and that would purely be things such as hotels etc...

So carry on the disagreement, but please be a little more thoughtful to us overseas people, who are also pretty darn hardcore fans.

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Also regarding 'removing the cash flow' from the US economy will not be strictly accurate as the US will gain a ton of extra revenue from the event regardless. The only place losing out, would be the city that would be hosting it and that would purely be things such as hotels etc...

Where do you see the extra revenue from the event coming from as far as the US goes if the game is played overseas? I actually thought the same as you about revenues being mostly hotels and such until I read this book called The Billion Dollar Game by Allen St. John. The impact on the local economy is far more than I had initially thought it would be.

I mean no disrespect to the hardcore fans overseas of course. A fan is a fan, all deserve respect. But if you look at it from the perspective of people who have season tickets already getting bent over by flex scheduling and losing home games to overseas locales, it's easy to see why a fan who has season tickets especially would be on their last straw with that movement.

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Also regarding 'removing the cash flow' from the US economy will not be strictly accurate as the US will gain a ton of extra revenue from the event regardless.

Where is the US gaining on the game being played out of the country?

The only place losing out, would be the city that would be hosting it and that would purely be things such as hotels etc...

Seems to be very easy for you to dismiss. Hotels, food, entertainment and transportation add up to a hell of a lot of money being taken from that local economy. What right does a foreign city hold over any team-based city to host the game?

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