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psj3809
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« Reply #15 on: January 24, 2012, 09:26:12 AM »

To be honest, I don't think it will ever happen. I may be in the minority on this - I don't actually want it to happen. The NFL should stay in the good old US of A as far as I am concerned.

I'm with you as well, i think a lot of older fans think the same way.  Had a few arguments on the comment section of PFT as they often write some crap about us brits taking away a team and the usual cup of tea type stereotypical crap.  I've posted several times that many fans dont want it to happen.

Newbies might love the idea of a London franchise but i believe most old fans wouldnt. I want the teams to stay in the US, yeah it might work at first but again the second that team goes through a few lean years the fans will stay away.  I mean look at NFLUK and the fairweather fans there, New England hardly had any fans in the early 90's in the UK and now look, a lot of fans are fairweather ones who will just support a winner, the second the London Rams start losing they'll drift off.

Doing a game at Wembley once a year is still a great idea and its amazing when you look back to boring preseason games (which back then we loved !) at Wembley, i'm glad that does well but i think if they jump and go too far with a franchise that'll set the NFL back years as i cant see it ultimately working sadly
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« Reply #16 on: January 24, 2012, 10:28:52 AM »

The NFL want to expand...and London would be a great place to start; problem in the US right now is stepping on territory rights of other teams...there really no area a team can go without hurting the other team fan base.
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« Reply #17 on: January 24, 2012, 11:39:31 AM »

^Hence LA is the obvious choice. Do think if the Raiders moved back to LA it would be good, state of the art stadium, huge funding if Mark Davis hands over 'some' of the ownership.

Either way he can play off the Oakland stadium committee against the threat of moving to LA, so hopefully we'll either get a new stadium in Oakland or they move to LA
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