Mexico City is such a terrible place to live.... So dirty and gross and I can't have my amenities!
I get what you’re saying, but for example St. Louis and San Diego’s teams didn’t leave due to lack of fan support/interest. They left due to the unbridled greed of the jackass owners of those two franchises.Great, let’s try it in some of those that haven’t had a team instead of trying it for the fourth time in a place that’s had teams leave.
Meanwhile homeboy probably lives in some ****** river town in Iowa.Mexico City is such a terrible place to live.... So dirty and gross and I can't have my amenities!
The NFL and established pro leagues have been slow to expand because expansion does not grow the pie on the most significant revenue source for the league -- that is, of course, the TV money.
Most pro leagues divide the TV money out evenly or close to it. The Jacksonville Jaguars get the same check from the television partners as do the Dallas Cowboys despite the obvious and titanic difference in fan bases between the most popular teams in the largest cities and the least in the smallest ones.
Going to 36 just means you slice the TV money into 1/36th into 1/32th. That is roughly an 11% decrease for each of the existing franchises. Sure, they might make some of that up in expansion fees (at least for the cities that have to pay one, unlike St. Louis that might get a free one), but that's lot of money gone.
This is why I think London will happen. Adding a team to San Antonio doesn't bring in more TV money. People there are already watching the Cowboys or Texans or the national games just fine. Having a team in London, though, which can be "Europe's team," could be pretty lucrative for the television deals.
The NFL always figures out the logistics when there is money involved. I'm sure it could work somehow -- have the London team spend one month over there playing home games, then one month in North America playing road games, then cycle through that again until you've completed the whole season.
You don't think the NFL would get more TV money to spread out to their Teams if they had 36 teams? Of course they would.
It's because they've already cowed those cities into fully/partially paying for stadiums, so they know they can hold them hostage againWhy do pro leagues always recycle the same cities? “Oh, it didn’t work these other two times, but I’m sure THIS time it will work out and be successful!”
Meanwhile homeboy probably lives in some ****** river town in Iowa.
Mexico City is over 7,000' in elevation, like 2,000' more than Denver. It would also become the most isolated city in the NFL, with Houston being the closest city at 2 hours 15 minutes away by plane. Seattle right now is the furthest from any other city at 2 hour flight to SF. I doubt you'll get many takers for driving to Mexico City too, plus a language barrier. It would just make no sense.
I think expansion would be a horrible idea.
Only roughly half the current teams even have a QB good enough to win a championship….. we really want to water the league down some more??
Huh. Throw in a good time zone, major metro area, rabid fans of sports, easy air, a professional stadium in place, etc.
Bring on the Mexico City Conquistadors!
"Statistician Nate Silver estimates the number of NFL fans in Mexico City at 1.5 million, more than in Detroit and Las Vegas combined, and more than three times the fan base in London"
St Louis and Toronto make sense. St Louis as a sorry and Toronto has all the other major sports. Hard pass on London. Soft pass on Mexico City. Don't need ANOTHER California or Texas team. Salt Lake City and Oklahoma City are the good maybes. Don't give San Diego a team back, their fan base never showed up to home games.
That is a pretty big boast...Not true for San Diego. As a former season ticket holder I can tell you first hand that the Chargers had really good support until the Spanos clan poisoned the well. After the BS that family put this city through they, rightfully, lost all goodwill. The worst owners in the history of sports.
That is a pretty big boast...
Not true for San Diego. As a former season ticket holder I can tell you first hand that the Chargers had really good support until the Spanos clan poisoned the well. After the BS that family put this city through they, rightfully, lost all goodwill. The worst owners in the history of sports.
I stand by that claim 100%. Worst ever.