LetsGoDevils Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 Goodell: Super Bowl may someday be held in London Oct. 15, 2007 CBSSports.com wire reports SCOTTSDALE, Arizona -- A future NFL champion may someday be crowned overseas in a game witnessed predominantly by a foreign audience, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said. "There's a great deal of interest in holding a Super Bowl in London," Goodell told reporters Monday. "So we'll be looking at that." The commissioner said London's Wembley Stadium would make a great candidate for American pro football's biggest matchup, given the opening of the stadium's lastest incarnation and enthusiasm overseas for the game. The NFL has been expanding its overseas presence for years by televising games around the world. It's held preseason games in numerous countries in Europe, Asia, Mexico and Canada, and in 2005, the Arizona Cardinals and San Francisco 49ers played the first regular-season match outside the U.S. The game at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City drew the league's largest crowd to date, 103,467. On Oct. 28, Wembley will host the first regular-season NFL game outside North America. It took just 90 minutes to sell the first 40,000 tickets for the game between the Miami Dolphins and New York Giants. Goodell said event organizers have sold 95,000 tickets in all. Goodell spoke about the possibility of a British Super Bowl after a luncheon Monday in Scottsdale sponsored by the host committee for the 2008 Super Bowl in Arizona. AP NEWS The Associated Press News Service Copyright 2006-2007, The Associated Press, All Rights Reserved HELL NO! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satans Hockey Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 (edited) What an awful idea that would be. It's hard enough for fans of the 2 teams in the Superbowl to get tickets and get to wherever they are playing that year let alone go to London to see that game. Edited October 16, 2007 by Satans Hockey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRASHER Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 I dunno if stupid is the word... the Super Bowl as an event is a bloated overrated joke anyway that's not been about fans in about 20 years... so why not isolate it and put it somewhere that no one will care about it anyway ?? I don't care... just play the effing game and keep it OFF ESPN!!! At least this way we'll have the spoiled reporters who go to it piss whine and complain about traveling and weather and all the other stuff those pissy babies bitch about! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmadd Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 I wonder what time it would be on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Masked Fan Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 moron. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek21 Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 What Crasher said. Yep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerrydevil Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 Don't even joke about sh!t like that... no way Rodger is that stupid. "You just won the Super Bowl, what are you going to do?" "I'm going to the Eiffel Tower!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOTCB Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 Doing something like this would be the equivalent of having the Euro Cup Final played in Chicago. What a complete disgrase of Baddell makes this happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brodeurrocks Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 Wrong....very wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevestevens Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 Honestly they play the game in some new random place each year, playing it in london would be no differant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerrydevil Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 Have the Pro Bowl in London. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravisZajac Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 Have the Pro Bowl in London. Well, it won't make any kind of difference with hawaii, though, I'm sure the players prefer playing in Hawaii than London in February.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevestevens Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 its not like the places are packed with fans from the team since most of the time they play them in differant places. i dont see the big deal of playing it in london if it makes more money for the nfl, i dont see why they wouldnt do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravisZajac Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 its not like the places are packed with fans from the team since most of the time they play them in differant places. i dont see the big deal of playing it in london if it makes more money for the nfl, i dont see why they wouldnt do it. Do you really wanna watch the game at... 12pm? ?? NFL IS IN AMERICA, its belong here. Yeah, so why not do the Superbowl in Mexico, or Canada? ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRASHER Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 Do you really wanna watch the game at... 12pm? You do realize the game in London SUNDAY is airing at 1pm here RIGHT?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOTCB Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 You do realize the game in London SUNDAY is airing at 1pm here RIGHT?? 10am in Cali!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halfsharkalligatorhalfman Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 God sports leagues are no longer even pretending that they give a crap about the fans over corporate sponsorship deals any more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triumph Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 They are not ever going to have a Super Bowl in London. This is merely hype for the upcoming game in London. But Crasher is right, the Super Bowl hasn't been about the championship in years - part of why of the 3 sports I follow well, the NFL playoffs are my least favorite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravisZajac Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 You do realize the game in London SUNDAY is airing at 1pm here RIGHT?? What ever, screw you, and I never wanna see you again , Anyway, the Superbowl belongs in America, point taken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LetsGoDevils Posted October 24, 2007 Author Share Posted October 24, 2007 Cities bid to have the Super Bowl come to them. They build newer stadiums, on tax money. Season ticket holders pay good money for their seats. Then the league has the stupidity to think of playing this game outside the U.S.? No %^%$# way! Totally a BS dumb idea. Next lets have a team in Australia and make it a really far road game. Bring back NFL Europe, and let this idea die. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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