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Originally Posted by conception
Unless the NFL is going to build an entire host of European teams to form a division or conference, I really think it would be a terrible idea to put a team in London. The travel time is just completely unreasonable to expect an entire league to have to adjust to.
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Travel time isn't an issue, because there is a week between games, more than enough time to adjust to the change in time zones.
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Originally Posted by conception
And I really don't believe in special scheduling for road trips and the like, because then they would be at a competitive advantage or disadvantage with the rest of the league and that is simply not right.
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If the London-based team played its road games in a 3-3-2 pattern, it'd only require two trips across the Atlantic. And 3-game home stands or road trips are not uncommon in NFL schedules even now (you can find several instances in the 2009 schedule).
In terms of travel difficulties, it's surely no more problematic than it was for the PCL when it had a team based in Hawaii, and probably less troublesome since there's a week between NFL games.
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Last edited by Le Grande Orange; 10-29-2009 at 02:58 AM.
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