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Post Info TOPIC: Super Bowl in London?!?


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Date: Apr 24 10:21 PM, 2009
Super Bowl in London?!?
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You gotta be kidding me.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3065254

Goodell says NFL to look into playing Super Bowl in London

Associated Press

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- A future Super Bowl champion may someday be crowned overseas in a game witnessed predominantly by a foreign audience, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said.

"There's a great deal of interest in holding a Super Bowl in London," Goodell told reporters Monday. "So we'll be looking at that."

The commissioner said London's new Wembley Stadium would make a great candidate for pro football's biggest matchup, given the enthusiasm overseas for the game.

The NFL has been expanding its overseas presence for years by televising games around the world. It's held preseason games in numerous countries in Europe, Asia, Mexico and Canada, and in 2005, the Arizona Cardinals and San Francisco 49ers played the first regular-season match outside the United States.

The game at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City drew the league's largest crowd to date, 103,467.

On Oct. 28, Wembley will host the first regular-season NFL game outside North America. It took just 90 minutes to sell the first 40,000 tickets for the game between the Miami Dolphins and New York Giants. Goodell said event organizers have sold 95,000 tickets in all.

Goodell spoke about the possibility of a British Super Bowl after a luncheon Monday in Scottsdale sponsored by the host committee for the 2008 Super Bowl in Arizona.




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Date: Apr 25 7:22 AM, 2009
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I thought it was reported Goodell already shot it down.

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Date: Apr 25 8:00 AM, 2009
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You are correct sir.

I only catch the part of the story that makes me mad, not the part that makes sense.

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Date: May 27 8:54 AM, 2009
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Bad idea.

The Super Bowl is an American institution and should only be played in the US.

I still don't like the fact that the NFL plays a regular season game over there.

I would really hate to see our Redskins play there and have it as a home game.

We season ticket holders would be cheated out of one of our 8 home games.

I would probably go postal if that were to happen because that would also mean one less tailgate. :)



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