Bills Overseas Game Next Year???

[Dick_Cheney]

 

https://operations.nfl.com/updates/the-game/germany-to-host-regular-season-games-in-2026-and-2028/

Or just a random graphic the NFL Ops team decided to use? 

 

It'd be an absolute joke to lose a home game when it's our first year in a brand new stadium. Surely the NFL isn't that idiotic, right? Right???

Edited 22 hours ago by Dick_Cheney

[dwight in philly]

Will have to be a 'ROAD" game.. IF they do .. agree. they cant take a home game away next season.

[SoonerBillsFan]

Yeah no on losing a home game especially. With us just opening the stadium

[Ed_Formerly_of_Roch]

Yeah on even numbers years NFC gets extra home game so NFC teams are the home team, odd years AFC is home team for any games outside US

 

Disclaimer.  Jax play by different set of rules!

[BuffaloBillyG]

45 minutes ago, dwight in philly said:

Will have to be a 'ROAD" game.. IF they do .. agree. they cant take a home game away next season.

Next year's NFC road opponents are Green Bay, Minnesota and the NFC West team that finished in the same place as Buffalo in their respective division, so Rams, Seahawks or 49ers would all be in play still for that spot.

[BearNorth]

If we get an international game doesn't it have to be from the type of games [Home/Away] where we have 9 games?  I suspect teams wouldn't be thrilled only having 7 home games if they were on the road for 9. [Jax always the exception]

[MPL]

Seems likely they were looking for a helmet with a German flag on it and the Bills one is the one they found. Whose helmet is that, by the way? 

[Marcus Aurelius]

Ich will nach München reisen.

Jetzt geht's los!

[Simon]

1 hour ago, MPL said:

Seems likely they were looking for a helmet with a German flag on it and the Bills one is the one they found. Whose helmet is that, by the way? 

 

Alec Anderson's father was born and raised in Germany so it might be his.

You contact the website and see if the helmet reported correctly for the picture.

I'm going to stare at it for a few minutes and see if it jumps offside.

Either of those should confirm it. 

[Breakout Squad]

Germany is an economic juggernaut. They will get lots of games in the future. NFL loves money. 

[machine gun kelly]

17 hours ago, Ed_Formerly_of_Roch said:

Yeah on even numbers years NFC gets extra home game so NFC teams are the home team, odd years AFC is home team for any games outside US

 

Disclaimer.  Jax play by different set of rules!

Well written Ed.  If we get the 9th home game, that’s a concession.  Germany are bigger fans than the UK.  My life long bud was an NFL Europe Guy.  He played in Germany, and told me they are nuts about the NFL.  If we get 8 home games, and the 9th is in Germany, those that can afford it can get a Europe trip out of it.

 

Besides the NFL is so motivated to place top teams in Europe, so it makes sense they place us over there, just like the Chiefs, Ravens, Eagles, Lions, and so on.  It’s not like Europeans don’t know who has the best fan bases.

[Mike in Horseheads]

I hope they play in Mexico City or Montreal, someplace they can get to and back in reasonable time

[sullim4]

Brazil would be ideal - minimal time zone difference and it's right at the beginning of the season.  Might as well get that game out of the way on full rest, and enjoy a longer break between weeks 1 and 2.

[PromoTheRobot]

1 hour ago, Mike in Horseheads said:

I hope they play in Mexico City or Montreal, someplace they can get to and back in reasonable time

 

There isn't a Canadian city with an adequate stadium Vancouver, maybe.

[Mike in Horseheads]

2 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

 

There isn't a Canadian city with an adequate stadium Vancouver, maybe.

They just remodeled The Olympic Stadium or thats still in progress in Montreal 

[BearNorth]

4 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

 

There isn't a Canadian city with an adequate stadium Vancouver, maybe.

Olympic Stadium in Montreal seats nearly 80,000, but is basically the same age as Highmark so would need updating.

[Ya Digg?]

1 hour ago, sullim4 said:

Brazil would be ideal - minimal time zone difference and it's right at the beginning of the season.  Might as well get that game out of the way on full rest, and enjoy a longer break between weeks 1 and 2.

I could be wrong but I feel like players have said it’s a miserable field and experience 

[Dick_Cheney]

1 hour ago, PromoTheRobot said:

 

There isn't a Canadian city with an adequate stadium Vancouver, maybe.

Not with that attitude!

[PromoTheRobot]

1 hour ago, BearNorth said:

Olympic Stadium in Montreal seats nearly 80,000, but is basically the same age as Highmark so would need updating.

Is it that big? I saw the Expos in their last year there. Didn't feel that way.

[BearNorth]

4 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

Is it that big? I saw the Expos in their last year there. Didn't feel that way.

Listed at 76,000, since it's a track & field stadium, has to be a certain size to fit a 400m track around the field.

 

One of the most spectacular and technically complex construction operations in recent Canadian history is underway in Montreal. The city’s iconic Olympic Stadium — famous for its distinctive roof and monumental tower — is undergoing a major modernization designed to prepare the structure for decades of future use.

 

Sounds like Prepping to host NFL games there.

Edited 14 minutes ago by BearNorth