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    NFL General Discussion

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    Something like 30-40% of the Bills season tickets are in the Toronto area, so it makes sense.

    The NFL wants a team in LA because of the TV market, that doesn't necessarily mean that LA wants a team. Business does, the majority of the people are indifferent. It's a basketball town. When the Raiders and Rams were there before, they struggled to attract a crowd. There are still a large amount of fans of both teams in the area, but not enough to be sustainable.

    Saying its a basketball town is so cliched. The baseball teams were drawing well at the start of the year, with both playing shit, infact the Dodgers were 1st in attendance. USC and UCLA football draw good crowds. The Raiders were an NFL team playing in a college standard stadium. The Rams done fine until Georgia Frontiere began dismantling the team getting rid of Dickerson and Jim Everett and then started auctioning off the team to the highest bidder, first Baltimore, then St. Louis, where shes from ironically. A team in LA now will do absolutely fine. The town has never had a purpose built pro football stadium. If a team went there to play in a shithole like the coliseum that wasn't up to NFL standards in the eighties then it would be doomed. It'll be a different story in Farmer's Field or the City of Industry.

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    NFL General Discussion

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    I guess CFL is an issue but money talks and the NFL could buy and sell all the CFL teams for one NFL franchise?

    Most definitely but the NFL doesn't want to get into a legal battle, where they've been sued in the past by minor leagues claiming the NFL was trying to monopolise Gridiron. They'd also have to fund a stadium completely on their own and outwith the Toronto teams Canada has failed to hold onto pro sports teams in the past in Montreal and Vancouver. The NFL like what they have just now with the Bills going there once a year, and never mind Los Angeles, they'll go to London before they ever go to Toronto. Expansion isn't on the agenda, the team(s) that will go to LA will be through relocation, either the Raiders and/or the Rams and the Chargers are an outside shot.

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    NFL General Discussion

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    I take it Sky Sports are still pushing this?

    To begin with they would probably sell out a season or two, but after that would die on it's arse. Every one I know has supported their teams for anywhere between 10 years (the last of my mates to get into watching American Football), to around 25-30 years (the rest of us). Do they think people will just magically stop supporting their teams? Yeah, some will, but nowhere near enough to sustain.

    Aye they were talking to Al Saunders, ex Ram OC when they had the greatest show on turf, who works with the Raiders now as an assistant, he was born in London and they were pushing questions to him about how great does he think a London team would be.

    I agree totally with what you said too btw, as well as the fact people aren't going to be able to afford or manage to give up time travelling into London every game, season upon season. Doomed after a brief honeymoon period.

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    See, lots of folk give the sky coverage a hard time, but I think they do a good job. They have to be accessible to help attract more interest. I actually found as a new person to the game I enjoyed the commentary but didn't understand some of it. Sky take the time to explain some of the things you'd know had you grown up with the game.

    I'm not sure on Cecil mind.....

    I don't mind it in drips, but too much and it becomes patronising, and its often been that way with Sky. Channel 4/5 I think have always done it the right way, have Carlson and his mind provide good analysis, but allow people to e-mail and tweet in with questions and mix in some good stuff that people who know the game would like to hear opinions on. Spending the time they did talking about Hernandez and a bunch of washed up vets cut at the end of last season is a wee bit embarrassing, do they think nae c**t has the internet!?

    Tbf, the only regular I've ever liked on Sky's coverage is Halling.

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    Same shite c***s in the studio. Every c**t knows Hernandez is in the nick, gies peace talk about the game or summint. In the past they'd bore us to death talking about Favre retiring and Spygate chucking it just in time for kick off.

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    I know the NFL is as violent as can be, but you see a fair amount in Basketball and Baseball too. Can't remember the last player in Scotland nevermind elsewhere to have one. Did Derek Lyle not tear his at Hamilton a few years ago? :lol:

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