Goodell: NFL plans to play in Australia “long term”

[Einstein]

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/roger-goodell-nfl-plans-to-play-in-australia-for-the-long-term

 

That’s what? 20-ish hours in travel time from Buffalo?

[ColoradoBills]

19 minutes ago, Einstein said:

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/roger-goodell-nfl-plans-to-play-in-australia-for-the-long-term

 

That’s what? 20-ish hours in travel time from Buffalo?

 

Games will only be available to stream on STAN TV.

[DJB]

I hate the NFL pushing the European and other continent games . 
 

Keep it in the USA where it belongs and not be so money hungry for the owners 

[LittleSammy]

19 hours ago, Einstein said:

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/roger-goodell-nfl-plans-to-play-in-australia-for-the-long-term

 

That’s what? 20-ish hours in travel time from Buffalo?

We just got back from a vacation to Sydney. 15 1/2 hours LAX to Sydney, plus another 4 1/2 hours Detroit to LAX. It takes several days for your body clock to re-set going over, and even longer when you come back. It was a 19 hour time difference from PST. Short of giving these teams a bye the following week, not sure how they will be adjusted for a game the next week. Kind of the same issues the Bills faced going to/back from their game vs. JAX in London

[DaBillsFanSince1973]

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[SydneyBillsFan]

Yeah I'd love to see the Bills in Sydney for obvious reasons, but it's not London or Frankfurt or even Brazil - it's a looooooong flight and the jet lag is brutal.

 

I don't think this is pragmatic in the long term, NFL bank accounts notwithstanding.

[TheBeaneBandit]

This is just getting stupid now.

[Kirby Jackson]

20 hours ago, DJB said:

I hate the NFL pushing the European and other continent games . 
 

Keep it in the USA where it belongs and not be so money hungry for the owners 

I just can’t wrap my head around this opinion. It’s obviously not happening. What other businesses do we tell the owners that they should make less money? 

21 minutes ago, SydneyBillsFan said:

Yeah I'd love to see the Bills in Sydney for obvious reasons, but it's not London or Frankfurt or even Brazil - it's a looooooong flight and the jet lag is brutal.

 

I don't think this is pragmatic in the long term, NFL bank accounts notwithstanding.

It’ll be one game a year. It may even be a week early or something like that. They’ll do it so that it isn’t a massive disadvantage for the teams participating. It’ll be a chance to continue to grow the game.

[US Egg]

As the article cites, the NFL still isn’t getting much of a foothold in London after nearly two decades of trying. It aptly sizes this up as more a traveling roadshow and Goodell is playing the P.T. Barnum role. There’s not a whole lot here to be concerned about. 

[TBBills Fan]

This is so dumb

[T.E.]

Maybe they can play a game on the moon

[Augie]

58 minutes ago, TheBeaneBandit said:

This is just getting stupid now.

 

It’s been stupid for a while. Goodell should have been strung up for saying out loud that they conducted a jet lag “experiment” on the Bills by having the Jags in London a week earlier. If you didn’t know what that experiment would look like, they should take away your keys to the Lab. 

[TheBeaneBandit]

29 minutes ago, Augie said:

 

It’s been stupid for a while. Goodell should have been strung up for saying out loud that they conducted a jet lag “experiment” on the Bills by having the Jags in London a week earlier. If you didn’t know what that experiment would look like, they should take away your keys to the Lab. 

Not only that, this crap is gonna get a player or multiple players killed when they show up in the wrong country wearing the wrong color of a rival gang or something.  It's just bad ideas after bad ideas.

[Don Otreply]

21 hours ago, DJB said:

I hate the NFL pushing the European and other continent games . 
 

Keep it in the USA where it belongs and not be so money hungry for the owners 

Sadly all corporations operate as if money is their God,  people and cultures are not a consideration for them, when those ideals run contrary to their greed. 

[billsfan89]

21 hours ago, DJB said:

I hate the NFL pushing the European and other continent games . 
 

Keep it in the USA where it belongs and not be so money hungry for the owners 

Unfortunately the push for international growth is not going to stop. Largely because the NFL has very limited ability to grow domestically in the USA. The NFL is everywhere in the USA. It’s the only thing on TV people watch live like it’s the 1990’s.

 

So with very limited pockets of growth in the USA you have to then venture out to foreign markets to grow new fans and revenue sources. 
 

I don’t particularly like the international games but I get why they do it. I just wish the NFL would be more careful about it. Maybe add a second bye week to the season so teams can get a bye week before playing games in foreign markets.

[Virgil]

At this point, just make an international league.  

[Brand J]

The NBA is global because a kid living anywhere in the world can play the sport solo or with friends - all they need is a ball and a hoop. It’s simplistic, practical, and cheap like soccer (or futbol). American football demands a whole lot more. I wish this overseas experiment would end.

[billsfan89]

7 minutes ago, Brand J said:

The NBA is global because a kid living anywhere in the world can play the sport solo or with friends - all they need is a ball and a hoop. It’s simplistic, practical, and cheap like soccer (or futbol). American football demands a whole lot more. I wish this overseas experiment would end.

I don’t think the NFL’s goal is to have American football talent pools emerging from all over the world. I think they just want more consumers of the TV product and merchandise/tickets. In that avenue they are making in roads.

 

The UK and Germany tend to be fruitful markets while Mexico is also an emerging North American market. So it’s working in some sense

Edited April 11 by billsfan89

[uticaclub]

I've always wanted a 24-hour day of international American football outside of mainland America.

 

Times EST:

 

Midnight kickoff: Australia

 

3:00 am: Korea or Japan

 

6:00am: UAE or India

 

9:00am: Central/Western Europe

 

Include the regular 1:00pm, 4:00pm, and SNF in Mexico and South America. ***** Canada, they get nothing, 😆 

 

Then have a Midnight kickoff in Hawaii, Alaska, or somewhere in the middle of the ocean.

 

World domination!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Brand J]

20 minutes ago, billsfan89 said:

I don’t think the NFL’s goal is to have American football talent pools emerging from all over the world. I think they just want more consumers of the TV product and merchandise/tickets. In that avenue they are making in roads.

 

The UK and Germany tend to be fruitful markets while Mexico is also an emerging North American market. So it’s working in some sense

This was from the article: 

 

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Last year’s Week 1 Chiefs-Chargers game in Brazil — which was streamed globally at no cost by YouTube — had an international audience of 1.2 million. 

The U.S. population is in the vicinity of 350 million. The rest of the world has 7.9 billion people. This means that only 0.015 percent of the rest of the planet watched the game.

That’s not deterring the league from rolling the stone up a steep hill, even if some think the NFL should realize that it’s not really working. And it won’t work until international viewership improves, dramatically. That’s where the real money is, as the NFL has learned in its domestic experience.

It also mentioned they’re still struggling to get a consistent foothold of fans at UK games. When you turn on one of those games what do you see? Fans with all 32 jerseys at the game. It won’t/can’t be more popular if it’s not relatable to the youth and the only way to accomplish that is to get them playing the sport. We appreciate the NFL in the states, even if we haven’t played ourselves because we grew up watching. Not true for the rest of the world. If the NFL wants the next generation of international people watching the sport, it’s going to have to become relatable at some point. They’re going to need to play it since it’s not ingrained in their culture.