My understanding is that the London games sell out pretty much instantly, so there's definitely a demand there.

What I just can't figure out is how the logistics would work. You'd constantly have battles between teams that are jet lagged and teams that aren't.
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just no
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It’s literally the only city in the world that could actually give a shit about the Jaguars?
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LA was the over the top line in the sand for their greed. My inner blackop says the LA Super Bowl will be targeted by USA haters around the globe!
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That expansion draft is going to be wild with 4 teams. How many players will a current team be able to protect?
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I would imagine that demand isn't big enough to sell out multiple stadiums at the same time.

How the hell can anyone even think its a good idea to have 1 team so fucking far away? What are they going to do? Have that 1 team play all their homes games in 1 half of the season and their away games in the other half and just fuck every other team that has to travel there? Its just so stupid...
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They would have a hell of a time getting free agents there.
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Pigs get slaughtered.
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I can come up with scenarios where you could make it BETTER. You put them in a division with teams in the northeast, so the flights would only be ~6.5 hours and the time difference would only be 5 hours. Then you do the games at 1pm EST/6pm London, which at least puts them in normal waking hours for everyone. And then you do some hotel magic to try and let the players keep a sleep schedule resembling normal.

You could also consider something like you're alluding to, where the London team does 4-5 home games, then flies to the U.S. for a road tour for a month, then goes back.

But that still would be really tough to manage. If nothing else I think you'd need to allow a bonus for London players to make it worth putting up with all of that.
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I really doubt that if the NFL put a team there that they would be raking in the dough. It would probably be a losing venture.

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May as well go the NHL route and have teams in Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, and Winnipeg. All in due time of course. Let's not get too greedy just yet.
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More ≠ Better
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It doesn't matter if only 1% of people are interested as long as that 1% is interested in spending lots of money.
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