NFL Reportedly Considering Regular-Season Games in China, Germany

Terrible idea. The NFL is overexposing themselves too much, imo. Thursday games are overkill as it is.

Originally posted by SportOvaFilmTV:
NFL Reportedly Considering Regular-Season Games in China, Germany

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2626464-nfl-in-china-regular-season-game-reportedly-could-be-played-in-2017

The NFL could play a regular-season game in China as soon as 2018, according to Alex Marvez

Does this bother you or are you cool with it?

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000646851/article/los-angeles-rams-expected-to-play-in-china-in-2018

I'm cool with the fact the LA will play over there and actually be called the Lambs.

Originally posted by zonkers:

Originally posted by SteveWallacesHelmet:

Originally posted by zonkers:

Originally posted by 94949er:

Originally posted by SteveWallacesHelmet:

Originally posted by ninerfan4life:
Not cool for 2 reasons

1. The travel
2. Lose a home game

Question about this. Why would a team have to lose a home game? I have been saying this ever since teams had games in Mexico and London. Why does a team have to lose a home game? Why couldnt the game count as away games for both teams? There is literally nothing that prevents this, unless there is some massive oversight that I am missing.

Maybe the visiting team calling the coin toss really is a huge deal?

I haven't drawn it up, but it affects the rest of the NFL schedule. It has to be in balance. If you call both sides away games then you're saying they both get 8 upcoming home games. Somewhere in the league there is a missing away team game that would not be able to fill one of those home games. Each game has to count as home for one and away for the other for the schedule to balance.

Yup. In an NFL season, there are 16 weeks * 16 matchups of H - A.
If there is just one London game and both are away (A - A), that means there is one extra A and one less H. Some team is going to get robbed of a home game. Multiple London games that are A-A will just mean more teams get robbed of a home game.

Once again, maybe I am just missing something.....but I dont see how a team is going to be robbed of a home game.

Lets assume we have 2 international games, meaning 4 teams would participate. (H = home game, A = away game, I = international game)

Team 1 - H H H H H H H H A A A A A A A I
Team 2 - H H H H H H H H A A A A A A A I
Team 3 - H H H H H H H H A A A A A A A I
Team 4 - H H H H H H H H A A A A A A A I

That would give each of the 4 participating teams 8 home games, 7 away games and 1 international game. All other 28 teams have 8 home games and 8 away games.

Again, what am I missing here?

I think there needs to be an equal number of H's and A's. If an H is hosting, someone needs an A slot to show up.
H = someone coming to your house to play
A = will be going to some other team's house to play
I = out of country

Team 1 - H H H H H H H H A A A A A A A I
Team 2 - H H H H H H H H A A A A A A A I
Team 3 - H H H H H H H H A A A A A A A I
Team 4 - H H H H H H H H A A A A A A A I

In this case, there are four extra H's. There needs to be four slots for an away team (A) to come play at their home stadium.



In a 16-game season, 7 home, 7 away, 2 international would work, but then that gets into season ticket stuff.

Thank you for taking the time to respond. Yes.....ultimately the bolded is the problem the NFL needs to simply ignore. If that issue can be put aside, there is zero problem with my idea.

Each team that plays an international game gets 8 home games, 7 away games, and 1 international game. I still believe that there is nothing wrong with my suggestion, and that teams should not be penalized by missing a home game. I dont think any NFL team would complain if both teams participating in an international game were considered to be playing away games.

As long as its not the 49ers, im cool with it

Originally posted by jimmythegreekjr:
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000646851/article/los-angeles-rams-expected-to-play-in-china-in-2018

I'm cool with the fact the LA will play over there and actually be called the Lambs.

Yeah, Rams up first... It looks like this China thing is full steam ahead.

FAIL