NFL team in Toronto.... Could it actually happen?

[PartyGirlUK]

In theory, if the sport really took off, what would you guys think of a team in London?

[supermangina]

TO could support an NFL team for sure.

They could also support a second NHL team in the Area.

[vin17]

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TO could support an NFL team for sure.

They could also support five NHL teams in the Area.

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[MikeyPatriot]

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In theory, if the sport really took off, what would you guys think of a team in London?

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London, England? Not going to happen.

[Triumph36]

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In theory, if the sport really took off, what would you guys think of a team in London?

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Never, unless science comes up with a way to eliminate jet lag. And London gets a dome.

[mosdef]

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In theory, if the sport really took off, what would you guys think of a team in London?

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Never, unless science comes up with a way to eliminate jet lag. And London gets a dome.

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There's a week between games. It's not like the players have to fly to London the night before the game.

[MicroBob]

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In theory, if the sport really took off, what would you guys think of a team in London?

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Never, unless science comes up with a way to eliminate jet lag. And London gets a dome.

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Flying NY to London isn't THAT much worse than flying Miami to Seattle or something.

Hawaii is in the WAC with Fresno State, Boise State, Louisiana Tech and others. Consider that these are student athletes who aren't always taking charters or direct-flights to get to some of their destinations.

College hockey has some weird conference set ups that include Alaska-Fairbanks being in the CCHA with Michigan, Michigan State, Notre Dame, Nebraska-Omaha among others.
That's some pretty crappy flying there and they don't even take charters so they have to do one connection after another to get from Fairbanks to Anchorage to Seattle to Chicago to South Bend or something.

It's a bit tricky and annoying but it can be done.

It's not like we're talking 20 hours of flying to get to Siberia or something. It's the U.S. to London which really isn't that hard.

Would be somewhat helpful if there were 2 teams out there somehow though.
In-division they could play each other and the U.S. teams from their division could swing out there for 2-game road-trips perhaps.

And out of division you could have a team like Seattle make a 2 game trip to the NY Giants one week and then to London the next week or something.
So there are ways to make it even easier.
But if it was just 1 team out there I still think it's doable.

[MikeyPatriot]

"Flying NY to London isn't THAT much worse than flying Miami to Seattle or something."

What about Seattle to London?

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In theory, if the sport really took off, what would you guys think of a team in London?

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Never, unless science comes up with a way to eliminate jet lag. And London gets a dome.

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If they started their games at 6pm GMT, that's 1PM EST, which is a typical time for games to start. I don't think jet lag would be an issue as long as they start their games in the evening.

[Bremen]

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If they started their games at 6pm GMT, that's 1PM EST, which is a typical time for games to start

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That was my first thought as well. Teams would not need to change their schedules at all as games would still be played at the same times. The only issue is that primetime games from London would not be possible (which for the NFL is quite a big deal).