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Now that LA is getting a team again. London is next with out
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Now that LA is getting a team again. London is next with out question. Probably sooner than latter.

Question now is will it be an expansion or will a team relocate?
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>>64896835
This is the stupidest idea I've heard; much worse than the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. Why are Americans so stupid
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I think it would be better to expand into Mexico or even South America
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>>64896921
>implying that invasion was a bad idea
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>>64896835
NFL in London is fine with me as long as the US gets a guaranteed team in the EPL every year.
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>>64896982
>South America
No one there is remotely interested in that shit, Mexispics or Canadians are your best bet, they've been preparing for years increasing their obesity
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>>64896921
>all this jelly
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>>64897020
You can't get a team in the premier league. If you start one you have to work your way up the leagues and also there is a risk of relegation which abhorrs any american who's used to the protectist safe-zone for their team.
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>>64897057

Well, 5 premier league clubs are owned by Americans, so...
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>>64897057
well then no NFL in london then
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>being a west coast team flying to London

Oyvey
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>>64897170
I'm fine with that
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>London is next with out question

Explain to me how this makes any sense at all

>implying there aren't markets in the US
>flying 15 hours one way to play a football game
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>>64897133
They're owned by businessmen. You as an american gain absolutely nothing from it. Owners are there to make money for themselves, yet you delusional are trying to associate yourselves with another mans wealth and property. Do you do this with rich people in the US?
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It's not a good idea, and I don't even think it'll be possible. The difference in work laws especially will be something that can throw up hurdles that people are not even considering.

Unless it will be a US-based team that just happens to play at home in London - probably the best working solution - in which case, I'm not sure of the point of that.
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>>64897171
But you have teams in Texas, Arizona, Florida and SoCal. I don't think there will be a language barrier. Just press the SAP button on your remote goyim.
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The only foreign cunts that care about football are:

>Canadians
>Mexicans
>Germans
>Japs

It's just a novelty for bongs, they wouldn't actually support a team.
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>>64897171
This, how do you expect your average Mexican to pay $100 dollars for tickets?
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>>64897027
>No one there is remotely interested in that shit
Brazil has more football fans than Mexico.
sure,because of a bigger population,but still,it's growing and people surely are "remotely interested"
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>>64896982
The market isn't there. Both popularity and economic sustainability is too low to make an NFL team sustainable. Also language barrier doesn't help.
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> NFL team in London
Just make a half decent handegg league in the UK for fuck's sake
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>>64897057
Like you'd have a fucking say in it.
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>>64897313
Those places still are vast majority native English speaking. And most of those who aren't native english speakers known English as a second lanquage.
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>>64897254
It's been talked about for years. The annual games in Britian were meant as a proof of concept and to spur interest.
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>The first game of the Wembley series was in 2007. It was hatched as a 15-year project with the endgame resulting in London getting a franchise of its own. So based on that timeline,we're more than halfway home. Those running the show in the U.K. still see 2022 as the target. Friday's summit is more proof of that

>"It's a realistic time frame," NFL Executive Vice President for International Mark Waller said Wednesday. "But there are still things we need to test for, so we have to be able to build a lot of things into the next few years. We don't need to prove as much on the fan-demand side. We feel comfortable that, in a few years, we'll be where we need to be there. The real focus is doing things to keep testing. We're really focusing on the logistical and operational side."


http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000547487/article/london-team-by-2022-nfl-continues-to-forge-forward-in-uk
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if they don't name the London team the redcoats, I'll stop watching nfl completely
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>>64896835
toronto is next get in line
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>Toronto
>Virginia Beach
>Omaha
>Salt Lake City
>Las Vegas
>Mexico City
>San Antonio

All more likely to get a team than London
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>>64897741
Terrible name
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>>64897669
REASONS IT WON'T HAPPEN:
>NFLPA polled the players and something like 90% of the players said they wouldn't move to London under any circumstances
>Too stressful of a travel schedule for players, teams and schedule makers
>London team would be cheated out of practice days
>No franchises with a significant fanbase there except the Jaguars and they're probably never leaving Jacksonville
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>p..please like our sport
>it's relevant and fun h..honest
Embarrassing 2bh
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>>64897669
I mean this picture just looks ridiculous
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>>64897870
>No franchises with a significant fanbase there except the Jaguars and they're probably never leaving Jacksonville
You put it a few too many words there. No team has a fanbase here, sending a team over doesn't instantly give them fans like it does over there when you move a team across the country
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>>64897870
>Too stressful of a travel schedule for players, teams and schedule makers

mainly this
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>>64897795

>Virginia Beach
>Omaha

is dis nigga serious
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>>64897928
No thanks it just seems like light jogging and no scoring
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>>64897798
All nfl names are terrible to your Brit sensibilities
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>>64897425
no we're not
you and your hipster friends don't count for shit zé boquinha
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London Redcoats
London Monarchs
London Imperials
London ?
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>>64896835
It'll be the jaguars, the owner already owns a shitty epl team and wants to buy a London team so he can move his shitty nfl team there
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>>64896835
London will NEVER get a team. The tax, currency, and travel issues (among others) guarantee it.
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>>64897766
Except there is a law preventing the NFL from expanding to Canada in order to protect the CFL.
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>>64897334
After London gets a team,Tokyo or Sydney are next best available options for the NFL to push Asian market.
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>>64899596
The Lobsters
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>>64897479
The market is absolutely there in Mexico,rest of South American can suck itself.
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>>64897741
It will either be the london bongs or silly nannies
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>>64897170
>well then no NFL in london then
well you have to call them american champions, not world champions.

americans truly do not understand the english language.
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>>64899596
>London Imperials

Oy vey, so problematic
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>>64897425
No
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>>64897410
>how do you expect your average Mexican to pay $100 dollars for tickets?
drugs?
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>>64900347

Brazil could probably field a decent league if they got really into it
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>>64900325
No club team that plays any of the 4 major pro sports in the US could be beaten by a club team from any other country. So yes, they effectively are world champions in that case.

This isn't like pro club soccer where there are a bunch of leagues that are on roughly the same level as each other.

The NFL is by far the best football league in the world.
The NHL is by far the best hockey league.
The NBA is by far the best basketball league.
MLB is by far the best baseball league.
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>>64899596
London Losers
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>>64900347
>Implying NFL players would move to Mexico to have their family kidnapped by drug lords
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>>64900410

>Poo Peeland pooriously pooposting with poopy jokes
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>>64900347
>WE ARE UNDER BRAZIL AND MEXICO
TELL ME WHY
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>>64897980
Except the jaguars already play in london every year
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>>64900466

Hockey
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>>64900466
Because no one lives in Canada except moose and exactly 7 lumberjacks
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>>64900466
Because your entire country has fewer people than California.
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>>64900466
they've got much bigger populations m8
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>>64900468

Obviously not the same guy, but he Jaguars don't have a fanbase here just because they play here every year.

I do disagree with what that britposter has said though. An NFL franchise here would automatically get a fanbase because every NFL fan in the UK would be drawn to it. I'm in Scuckland and I'd get behind a London franchise.
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>>64898993
>20 million fans
Rather support a football team than to support an yuropean soccer team
That is cringeworthy.
Tbh most of NFL fans are fairweather bandwagoneers too.
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>>64900397
Except you don't put your money where your mouth is and prove that they really are world champions.

Sports that compete openly worldwide do not have many US based champions, like in Formula 1, Soccer and Rugby.

I'm an NFL fan but the label "world champions" is clearly false regardless of you argument.
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>>64900463
LOL - im a POM anon.
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>>64900083
>NFL in Tokyo

All them black weebs would go ham in Tokyo
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If a team ever moves to Mexico it would have to be Monterrey. Mexico City is huge and where most fans are but they're used to pay the least for concerts and aporta eventos. Chilangos are too fucking cheap. Also Monterrey is within safe distance from Texas. Players can live there.
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>>64900397

This is the "You can't prove God /doesn't/ exist!!" argument. IF you have half a brain cell then I don't need to explain what is wrong with this argument.
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>>64900588

>Safe

The word safe has no meaning in Cartel Land
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>>64900545
No, you're just ignoring foregone conclusions as well as the basic fact that nobody else has ever asked to form a global club playoff system for any of the sports I mentioned.

This isn't a case of even slight parity. Each of those leagues blows their nearest international competitors out of the water. That's not the case in global soccer.

Really not a hard concept to understand and it's pretty easy to grasp the single nuance of this situation.
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>>64900599
Not sure why you're denying reality.

See
>>64900632
> the basic fact that nobody else has ever asked to form a global club playoff system for any of the sports I mentioned
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>>64900614
>kicker for Mexico pulls a Blair Walsh in a playoff game
>family killed and kicker hung up on a highway
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>>64900646

The burden of proof is on the party making the contested claim i.e. "American teams are essentially world champions." There is literally no proof to this, so your assertion must be treated as unproven and essentially false.
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>>64900697
Congratulations, you just admitted that the soccer pyramid shouldn't exist.
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>>64900466
Population?
Brazil - 200M
México - 122M
Canada - 35M
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>>64900697

The facts that there is an American Football World Cup where the USA sends their D team, that they couldn't send NBA players to the Olympics for decades, and that every single good player from Venezuela, Mexico and Japan go to the MLB instead of staying in their country, etc.
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>>64900662
Any chance of Manziel joining a Mexican franchise?
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>>64900697
Would you say that Chelsea wasn't really the English champion last year because they never had to play Sheffield United?
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>>64900632
>No, you're just ignoring foregone conclusions as well as the basic fact that nobody else has ever asked to form a global club playoff system for any of the sports I mentioned.
Pretty sure your wrong there as there was a push in the UK during the 80's but it was ignored.
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>>64900755
That's true of MLB, NBA, NFL, and NHL. They are all the top destinations for their respective sports and no other leagues in the world even come close.
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>>64900755
To be fair all of the A-list soccer players either go to the EPL, La Liga, or Bundesliga.

All it'll take is a foreign league with owners rich enough to scalp football talent.
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>>6490066
http://blog.foxsoccer.com/post/123071186007/21-years-ago-andres-escobar-was-killed-after
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>>64900807
They never had a serious league or any teams. You're reaching big time.
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>>64900769
Hola, me llamo Billy.
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>>64900811
What other leagues?
Japs and finland?
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>>64900730
>>64900773

What? That makes no sense. All football teams have the same opportunity to challenge at the highest spot if they make it there through promotion. If the leagues were static then you would have a point.

>>64900755

They still don't compete globally. Without actual competitive results to compare there is still no proof of this claim. Cute to see a Mexicuck sticking up for big brother btw.
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>>64900834
It would have become very serious if the NFL listened believe me, I was there.
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>>64900864
The following are the distant 2nd place leagues for their sports (outside the US):
Japan - baseball
Russia or Finland - hockey
Spain - basketball
??? - football
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>>64900769
He would love it out there. And he'd be well taken care of.
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>>64900910
No, it wouldn't have. The NFL invested a fuckton of time and money into NFL Europa and it still died.
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>>64900919
Didn't the US play France in the final where the French got BTFO?
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>>64900958
I'm talking about club leagues, not national teams.

But yes, the US national team beat the shit out of France.
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>>64900919
Canada for nfl i guess, although it has different rules doesnt it.

I love america desu. As a nation you have singular collective grandiose delusion if being galactic fucking champions. Makes me crack up every time a jet flys over one of your obscene bowl stadiums to the sound of stars and stripes. Self awareness of a fucking daffodil.
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>>64900347
>saudi arabia
lol what?
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>>64900993
bruh you gotta lay off the memes, you've got it a bit twisted.
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>>64900993
And that's just a college game, with 94,268 people in attendance.
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>>64900996
Arabs are total America-boos m8

If they're not being bombed by ISIS, Russians, or Americans, they're driving Cadillac Escalades and listening to dat coo' urban hip hop
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>>64900993

This kind of. Part of the enjoyment of watching NFL comes from the mindset of Americans.

>That time the halftime show was presented from a fucking Aircraft Carrier

Great bants lads.
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>>64896835
They can have the Lions if they want.
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when can i buy LA Rams gear?
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>>64901063
What's that about an aircraft carrier?
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>>64901119

Fucking Hell, never change Murrika. Never change.
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>>64900466
That's about 21% of the population, that's better than both Mexico and Brazil. I like your passion Canada, but work on your math skills
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>>64897741
And there can be a cross pond, title unification match, a la the doubly bubbly brit bong bOWL.
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>>64901103
about 30 years ago
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>>64901063
>that time Mr. Bean saved your Olympic opening ceremony.
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>>64901178
And about 30 days from now.
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>>64899596
>not the London Bridges
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>>64901168
Cleveland would be better, the toilet bowl.
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>>64899688
i wish they would just merge already. Just keep teams in BC Saskatchewan and Toronto
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>>64897529
Those are the rules you dumbass. None of the other clubs would stand for it, and they do have the final say.
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>>64899596
London Dental Plans
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>>64901228
Saskatchewan wouldn't make the cut. Probably just Toronto and Vancouver.
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>>64901185

He's a god damn national treasure, I'd expect nothing less.
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>>64901244
yeah not a big enough population but they have the best fans in the cfl.
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>>64901256
You aren't wrong. Based Rowan.
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>>64897795
What about St. Louis?
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>>64900996
My camel riding desert cousin taught me the rules of football back in the day. albeit, it was college football because his local station broadcasted BCS college playoffs.

In case if you're wondering, I'm an immigrant
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Perhaps they could move London to Cleveland, lets face it, it couldn't be any worse.
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>>64901797

*Bowls. My English fail me
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>>64896835
FUCK OFF ENGLISH FOOTBALLERS ARE SHIT ALREADY WITHOUT HANDEGG NICKING DECENT THE ATHLETES
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>>64900466
I doubt these numbers
A bigger percentage of Canadians watch the Super Bowl than Americans
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>>64896835
Why London and not one of our neighbors like Mexico City or the biggest CFL team?
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>>64897299
Is Sweden relevant in any sport?
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>>64900516
Why else would London support Jacksonville of all places?
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>>64901051
Suck on that rest of the world.
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>>64902371
They're getting good at repelling niggas at their borders, it might catch on as a sport.
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>>64900588
But isn't most violence along the border?
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>>64896835
Raiders.

>“The world is a possibility for the Raider Nation.”
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>>64900466
AINT NOTHIN BUT A HEARTACHE
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>>64896982
No one in Mexico is interested in NFL bucko. And Toronto is too much into the Blue Jays, Leafs, and CFL to give a fuck about the NFL. London will be the next city to get an NFL team. Question you should be asking is if the Raiders or the Chargers will be the ones that move there.
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the only NFL 'fans' over here are yank expats or fuccbois who think handegg shirts are cool because their favourite tumblr blog tells them so, the rest of the population couldn't give a fuck despite how hard they're pushing the superbowl
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>>64902371
Cuckoldry
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>>64902771
TELL ME WHY!
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>>64900993
you know you love it
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>>64900397
>the favourite always wins

They aren't the world champs senpai.
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>>64897741
Nobody in the UK even knows what readcoats means, the Civil War may be a big part of your history but it's only a footnote in ours. Nobody studies it or knows anything about it.
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>>64903169
I am not a yank and don't own a handegg shirt yet I have followed the NFL for about 8 years and know a number of people who also have.

you are full of shit
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>>64905078
>Redcoats
>Civil War

how ignorant are you?

you mean American War of Independence, and anyone that did the slightest bit of history at school knows about Britain losing America
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>>64898032
Super Rugby has teams in Australia, NZ, South Africa and next year Japan and Argentina, if a two bit operation like Sanza can do it sure the NFL could
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>>64905140
I would bet that 80%+ people in this country wouldn't know what 'redcoats' was referring to
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Why doesn't fusion NFL with CFL?
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>>64905203
where the fuck were you educated if you think that? everyone knows what redcoats were its not like they were some niche military force unique to the american campaign, all our troops wore red in those times,

and frankly if your school isn't teaching you about the empire and the Napoleonic wars then you are simply gutter trash in a shit part of the country
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>>64905087
>>64905242
>this mad yankaboo

lmao
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>>64899596
Put them in the AFC East. London Redcoats vs New England Patriots would be fucking glorious. And it makes sense geographically too.
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>Jet flies over stadium
>It's a dome
>The dome is closed
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>>64896835


London already has an NFL approved team. It is the Jaguars. That is why the Jaguars are giving up a home game every year to play over there.

I wouldn't be surprised if the NFL explores this with other franchises, like the Bills and Toronto. Might even give them a name split, or change the name during the week. It would be an interesting way to grow the game, since the market in the U.S. is at capacity.
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>>64905253
>I am poorly educated and have no argument
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>>64905324
>Put them in the AFC East. London Redcoats vs New England Patriots would be fucking glorious. And it makes sense geographically too.

And for the stadium, Tottenham Hotspur already signed a deal with the NFL that allows football games to be played in their new stadium (opening in 2018). It has a retractable field that goes over the normal one, so the stadium could support two teams without much of a problem. It's a bit on the small side (only 61,000 people), but it's big enough for the NFL imo.
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Isn't a problem going to be the complete lack of local talent?
are there any English NFL players?
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>>64905604
Rugby players might come over because they would make more money.
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>>64905078
Redcoats have no part in the american civil war senpai. Our infantry were wearing redcoats, and known as such from 1650 to just after 1850.

Jesus christ read a book.
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>>64904885
AINT NOTHIN BUT A MISTAKE
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>>64900527
>most of
Funny way of saying "all of"
From which part of New England are you my "diehard patriots fan" friend?

Dissing yuro bandwagoners when you're a NFL bandwagoner yourself is incredibly retarded
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>>64905203
>>64905242
The Royal Horse Guards still wear it. They could open every home game.
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>>64905956
Iron Maiden could play too.
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>>64897173

Yeah tough life flying first class and gangbanging white air hostesses.
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>>64905078
Do not listen to this man, he does not represent the Britbongs on this website.
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>>64899596
London Admirals would be neat, they could have rivalries with all the Pirate and Savage teams, i.e. Raiders, Chiefs, Buccaneers, and Redskins
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>>64906007
And the Vikings too I suppose.
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>>64905956
these boys look balla as fuck
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>>64905203
Perhaps in your council estate, but most people in England have actually had an education.
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>>64906007
Start a second British NFL team called the Bristol Pirates, it would be the perfect rivalry.
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>>64900387
we have a league
no one cares about it

hipsters just like watching NFL to pretend they're superior to the sheeple watching "soccer", they don't give a fuck about the sport and the local teams, they just want to use handegg shirts
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>>64906047
Would be perfect, I'm sure if and when they expand to the UK it will eventually be 2 teams, and probably 4 in the long run, maybe even more than that if they're a hit. They could make a new conference entirely in Europe.
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>>64906069
This would be like 50 years down the road probably. They would need to get the minority youths to care.
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>tfw prime Bortles, Hurns and Robinson come to play in London and win tha owl
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There is a nfl league in the UK though with teams like London Blitz and Warriors, these teams play in Europe as well and we have a student GB team that's going to Mexico to play.
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>>64906129
i thought nfl europe folded
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>>64906062
Do you guys have 19-0 shirts, or 18-1? This is important
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>>64906129
>student GB team
American football is really popular at university.
I attended my universities team training day thing, turns out I'm not very fit or good at it, and nor is anyone else here.
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>>64906175
Germany definitely has a few teams as I play with a kid who plays for his German team when he's back home, think they're are teams all over Europe
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>>64906227
Yup that's where I play, reason why it won't catch on is that it takes like so much more equipment to play and to learn the game compared to football, which I also play, and with American football I have indoor sessions which are boring as fuck
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>>64896982
FIFA Certified South American here, while Murrican Football is certainly big in audience in sundays here, it's not that big to have a team of it's own. After all, NFL has never played outside USA and London for official matches, so... South America, nope.
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>>64906214
i don't think none of the NFL "fans" here even know about it
i just know because of /sp/ despite not giving a fuck about handegg

they just want to use Patriots shirts and talk about how good Brady (the only player they can name) is

NFL fans are just hipster pissed because their football teams are shit so don't expect anything from them. some of the idiots even avoid cheering for the bottom teams because they dont want to bandwagon a soon to be relegated squad. that's how clueless those idiots arE
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>>64906249
yeah this did me in most desu.
>cost of insurance
>cost of equipment
>amount of effort to practice.
Its much easier to watch desu. Which uni do you play for?
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>>64896835

possible names:

>London Multiculturalists
>London Senpaitachi
>London Kebabs
>London Tribesmen

anyone think of some more?
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>>64897334
>It's just a novelty for bongs

What makes you say this?
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>>64906296
Britbongstan Bombers
London ISISdefectors
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>>64897741
People here don't even know the term Redcoats
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>>64906345
end your life :)
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>>64906296
>London Crookedteeth
>LODNON OODÑOOs
>London United FC (lel muh mls memes)
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>>64906296
The London Sharia
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London Harlequins
London Wasps
London Irish
London Welsh
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>>64906509
I see what you did there.
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>tfw there will be no Brazil 71ers in history
FeelsBadBro.jpg
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>>64906473
gives new meaning to the phrase "terrible towels"
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>>64906473

>London Sharia Zone

would be better
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The number of teams and playoff system is literally perfect right now.

Why does goodell want to ruin everything?

>Increasing the number of playoff teams
Fuck off, no

>Moving teams to LA
It won't last more than 10 years. LA is terrible sports town.

>Expanding football to London
Fucking kill yourself. Football will never be relevant there. Only country that should maybe get a team is Canada and even then that's a stretch.
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>>64906007
>rivalries are based on team names

Are you fucking 6?
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>>64906593
>Fucking kill yourself. Football will never be relevant there.

so you only want to expand football to countries where it will become the top sport aka nowhere else?

you couldn't even make canada like NFL more than moose hunting and hockey and they lick your boots for hobby. soccer had no problem being a fifth or fourth sport in the USA because you don't need to override someone's culture completely to settle there. guess americans never understood this concept though
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>>64906625
>soccer had no problem being a fifth or fourth sport in the USA because you don't need to override someone's culture completely to settle there

What the fuck are you talking about you stupid fucking ape? Go eat a banana and kick a ball around your fucking favela.
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>>64905078
Master Old World troll.
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JUST GIVE THE NFL GOOD COVERAGE YOU FUCKING BBC HACKS

>Wembley games expanding every fucking year
>game's audience is growing at a steady rate
>fucking nobody but sky broadcasts games
>BBC buy the rights to show highlights and put it on at 11pm on a tuesday night and show no live games
>literally an audience in the UK dying for some sport to be broadcast on one of the free channels like BBC instead of the sky/bt paywall
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>>64906636
don't get so upset, it's bad for your heart fatty
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>>64906653
Do you think your fellow royal subjects would like handegg?
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>>64906357
What's wrong mate?
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>>64906669
this sunday evening BBC Two is showing fucking snooker for hours, and I'm sure there'd be a fair few more viewers tuning in for handegg even if they don't know anything about the sport.
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>>64906686
>Literally televising bar games
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>>64906653
>show no live games

They show the three Wembley games live. Still a shitty amount of coverage though
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>>64906686
100% sure more people in the UK would rather watch snooker than american football
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>>64896835
>Implying the next expansion teams won't be the Montreal Frenchmen and the Toronto Tories
>Implying every time the Patriots and the Tories meet it won't be a bloodbath
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>>64906711
>They show the three Wembley games live

really, bruh? come on.

At least they'll show the Superb Owl, I guess.
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>>64906711
At least they sound better than NBC with the World Rugby Cup. They had such crappy coverage and announcers.
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>>64906721
Snooker ruined my childhood when the games would overrun and they'd keep it on and cancel 6pm Simpsons instead, fuck snooker.

The only people who watch it are probably in the death throes of liver failure anyway.
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>>64906751
>i don't like snooker because of some stupid childhood trauma so everyone else in the same country hates it too

brilliant
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>>64906728
>really, bruh? come on.

What? I said it's still shitty.
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>>64906771
you seriously defending televising a pub game?
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There will never be a London team.

They sell out Wembley 3 times a year because it's still a novelty.

Give the UK a few years of 8-8 or worse, they won't be able to give tickets away.
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>>64897020
>US gets a guaranteed team in the EPL every year
don't americans own 4 epl teams?
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>>64906751
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>>64896921
>canada
don't worry canada maybe you can move one of your cfl teams to puerto rico
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>>64906793
>this is it's 9th year
>it grows every year
>'it's just a novelty guys!'
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>>64897870
>they're probably never leaving Jacksonville
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d-does /sp/ have meetups for the international games?

I'd like to go, but it's a long way down and a lot of hassle to just go by myself
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>>64899596
London Mujahadeen
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Should the NFL become the IFL if a team were to be located in GB ?

I understand that the NBA is still called as such because Canada is basically another US but what about England ?
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LA is more likely to get a 3rd team than London is to get a 1st
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>>64906795
he means a team that plays in the US, you can't move EPL Franchises
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>>64906811

No broadcaster wants the rights to a full season of games. BBC shows 3 a year, and still have to displace other programming just to accommodate it.

What's the point of having a team if no-one can watch them.
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The 33rd NFL team in London should be independent like Notre Dame. Play any team and if their record is better than any of the twelve playoff teams, they would usurp them in the postseason.
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>>64901912
We're lucky football isn't all about athletic ability or we would be fucked. I would be more worried about rugby desu
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The Jaguars, it like pottery.
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>>64896835

I would follow them religiously if we got a team, I like american football but it's really har dto follow here mainly because of the time difference
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>>64906614
>he doesn't like fun
You're going to die alone.
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>>64900339
>yfw the London Imperials will never sack Brady for a career ending injury, reigniting the revolutionary war.
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>>64907474

kek
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>>64897334
>Japs

U wot m8. Literally not at all.
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>>64903097
wow your ENTIRE post is wrong and or retarded
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>>64905203
Why did England get so pussified and shitty? Just seems like a miserable shitheap to live in
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>>64896835
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XmyBZRASZU

There are fans but it probably doesn't make economic sense
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Just give us the Jags with Tebow already faggots.
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>>64897334
Swap Gooks with Poles, its growing at a fast pace over there
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>>64907489
Japs love American sports this is a very known fact

They want gridiron football added in the Tokyo Olympic games in 2020
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>>64907580
England has always been pussies since WWII and also God save the queen
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>>64906227
yeah, I played at uni for a year
it's nowhere near as fun as rugby
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>>64896921
Canacuck mad because Toronshithole still won't get a team.
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>>64907580
he's memeing you retard
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>>64907814
It's good fun if you're good
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Just so you all know there are actually established teams in the U.K
London Blitz
London Warriors
London Olypians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_football_teams_in_the_United_Kingdom
Main list is here, there are also academy's like Bristol who train younger kids. Eventually I think there might be more interest in the sport but I remember my coach who's high up now saying that in the 90's there was an interest that slowly declined so maybe its just not a sport us brits will follow
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>>64908004
I was actually pretty good, I didn't have a complicated position though (nose)
It's just not as fun as rugby
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>>64908160
Should have shifted to defensive end instead if you got bored matey, much more fun and if you have a linebacker blitzing with you can cause havok, what team did you play for?
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never
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>>64908160
Agree. I had a decent shout at safety but I'd rather keep playing rugby. Less faffing about and generally more fun.
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>yfw this happens
>yfw they win the bowl thanks to the large amount of refball they'll get
>we shitpost to the end of time that we've beaten america at their own sport
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>>64908188
UoN
We had an alright season when I was playing but we lost a lot of players the year I left so they've slipped back a bit now
>should have shifted to end
I was actually quicker than some of the defensive ends but the coach wanted me in the middle because there was only me and one or two others that could do it, we used to fuck around with meme plays a lot so they tried to keep everyone's plays as simple as possible
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>>64908225
Nottingham or Northampton? I play for one of those teams haha
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2bh an AFC/NFC International would be pretty based. It'll never happen though. Too little interest.
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>>64906787

I'm no snooker apologist but darts is the most based of all sports to be fair
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>>64908298
notts
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If it were an expansion how would that work with the conference and division allignments? I'm all for an expansion but only if it's 8 teams at once to keep the leauge even. But where would those teams go?

Las Vegas
San Antonio
Reno
Charlotte
Ottawa
Maxico City
Calgary
Winnepeg

Just spitballing here
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>>64908329
Good team notts, always happens with american football with losing players once the pads come on and people get a couple of hits. Lost to you lot last year, your facilities are like 10 times better than ours, was so jealous
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>>64908367
>Lost to you lot last year
I went to watch that game actually.
>your facilities are like 10 times better than ours, was so jealous
We played our home games in Lincoln last year, the league was really anal about us using the 3G pitch because of the size of the end zones
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Would it be possible for the team to play eight home games then eight "on the road"?
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>>64908408
Might have been trent that had the better facilities then, we lost to both notts teams, probably saw me then, playing corner or safety, by then our defensive coach had left to become Birmingham bulls head coach so we were kind of fucked.
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>>64900347
>Japan is the 2nd best football nation in the world
>not even on the list
how the fuck do they do it?
just reading Eyeshield 21 for years?
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