profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2022/10/08/“There’s no question that London could support not just one franchise, I think two franchises,” Goodell began. “I really believe that.”

The fact that London has two NFL-ready stadiums proves that, if/when a team moves to London, it will be two, not one. Just like the league did when it returned to L.A.

But then the Commissioner took it another step. After Neil Reynolds jokingly asked for a European division, Goodell made it clear that the possibility is no joke.

“That’s part of what we’re doing, right?” Goodell said. “We’re trying to sort of see, could you have multiple locations in Europe where you could have an NFL franchise? Because it would be easier as a division.”

It would be easier as a division because those teams would play each other, twice per year. That’s twelve games per season that would be played among the European teams, without any of them having to travel to the U.S., and without having any U.S. teams having to travel to them.

Of course, there would still be plenty of trans-Atlantic travel. The European teams would otherwise host five or six (depending on the year) non-European teams, and they would play six or five (depending on the year) games in the U.S.

Travel is just one of the various issues to be resolved, when it comes to putting teams in Europe. Plenty of players won’t want to play there. Many free agents will target domestic markets. Some draft picks may even be inclined to refuse to sign with a team in London or Germany or wherever.

Still, it feels like an inevitability that teams will be headquartered in London and possibly beyond. But while it’s no longer a matter of “if,” the “when” remains clearly unresolved.

The “who” will be an interesting issue as well. The four teams have to come from somewhere. So either current NFL cities will be losing their teams, or the NFL will be expanding to as many as 36 franchises.

What four teams do you think could make up the European division?

Lions, Jaguars, Texans, and Jets.

But in all reality, I would hate this.

go.pack.go.;453796Lions, Jaguars, Texans, and Jets.

But in all reality, I would hate this.

Texans and Jets are both supposively currently in the top 11 on current NFL value, so I doubt the NFL would force them to change unless the owners wanted them to.

https://www.sportico.com/feature/nfl-team-values-ranking-list-1234684165/

Meanwhile Jaguars and Lions are in the bottom three, so that's possible. Bengals are also with them.

Both Ohio teams (Bengals and Browns) are in the bottom 6, so I think the NFL would be strongly pushing one of them to go, and try to create more room for the other here.

Also one has to consider Cardinals, I mean on one hand, they don't have many teams around them, market space wise... on the other, even when they went to the Super Bowl, their fans didn't seem that excited... and other teams, seem to be crowding them out of their own market, supposedly especially the Cowboys and Raiders, despite them being there since 1988.


Cardinals need some sort of change, maybe it's owner, promoters, mascots, area, something needs to be improved.

Maybe they should be the Arizona Phoenix

Hell, I'll make the pitch right now, instead of the Arizona Cardinals, it should be the Arizona Phoenix

[img=https://miro.medium.com/max/416/1*xHMSJx5MT7w85TX0ovlrWA.jpeg]Phoenix[/img]

I don't like it. That would mean more times having to play in Europe.

This is probably riding the speculation of a concord jet that is supposed to get between New York and England in 4 hours.

You would also need a few hundred players and coaches willing to live overseas. I just don't see it happening. It doesn't seem feasible.

Will not work. I didn't feel like Elon Musk and Tesla would amount to much, so factor that into your consideration of this post.