The NFL Thread (with added College Football)

[ADVILLAFAN]

How did Green Bay survive when all of the other small town teams disappeared? (You'd think they'd have moved to Milwaukee).

The Packers used to play a game each season in Milwaukee


Revenue sharing and the salary cap in the NFL means that a small town like Green Bay can survive.

Its strange that in the hotbed of capitalism there's something like the NFL which is almost communist-like in its structure

The worst team gets the best draft pick and in theory an easier schedule. It is amazingly left-wing.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Thanks, appreciate that. So why will the Browns always be the Ravens, then? I don't get that bit. Sorry to go on!

I am guessing that the actual players went from Cleveland to the Baltimore Ravens. So it was Cleveland's players that won the Superbowl as Baltimore.

Not a big fan of Franchise movements.

Haven't Los Angeles and San Antonio been rumoured to be wanting an NFL Team.

[UK Redsox]

Haven't Los Angeles and San Antonio been rumoured to be wanting an NFL Team.

Gov. Arnie approved an LA stadium yesterday

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4585508

Now all LA needs to do is persuade the NFL to give them a team.

I hope there's another expansion. There's 300m plus people in the USA, so they should be able to manage an extra couple of teams.

San Antonio makes sense as being the other new team

[ADVILLAFAN]

No thoughts of adding Canadian teams? I know there's the CFL, but it's not the same.

[UK Redsox]

No thoughts of adding Canadian teams? I know there's the CFL, but it's not the same.

Buffalo have been playing a few games in Toronto in recent seasons.

That's really the only viable place to put a team in Canada

[cdbearsfan]

Give the expansion spot to the Mexico City Aztecs, or the Brummie Bears.

[cdbearsfan]

Here's today's fantasy team...

QB Manning IND @ STL
RB Tomlinson SD @ KC
RB Jones NYJ @ OAK
WR Collie IND @ STL
WR Smith NYG vs ARI
TE Miller PIT vs MIN
K Stover IND @ STL
DEF Packers (boo... hiss...) @ CLE

[cdbearsfan]

Yawn... shittest Wembley game ever.

Since 2000 anyway.

[cdbearsfan]

Aaaaaaagh.

Nobody told me that when Titans were on a bye week Bears have to play like them.

We could beat their 59-0 defeat at this rate.

[UK Redsox]

Right from the early interception it was clear that yesterday's Wembley game was going to be a romp for the Pats.

Even though The Golden Boy threw for over 300 yards and 3 TD's they never had to get out of second gear to beat the Bucs. If Randy Moss hadn't have had another of his "alligator arms" days, the Pats could easily have passed 50 points again.

The Bucs fans (they've always had a big following in the UK) tried their best to make it like a proper home game.

Although it wasn't a great game it was still an entertaining evening.

[pmarachi]

Right from the early interception it was clear that yesterday's Wembley game was going to be a romp for the Pats.

Even though The Golden Boy threw for over 300 yards and 3 TD's they never had to get out of second gear to beat the Bucs. If Randy Moss hadn't have had another of his "alligator arms" days, the Pats could easily have passed 50 points again.

The Bucs fans (they've always had a big following in the UK) tried their best to make it like a proper home game.

Although it wasn't a great game it was still an entertaining evening.

The Bucs have a big following over there?

Really?

[UK Redsox]

The Bucs have a big following over there?

Really?

Yep

They've had probably the most active UK fan club. Whenever UK NFL fans get publicity its more often or not the Bucs fans.

Weird I know

[ADVILLAFAN]

My 1st team play my 2nd team this weekend - Browns @ Bears.

The way da Bears played against the Bengals we could lose this though :-(

[cdbearsfan]

Right from the early interception it was clear that yesterday's Wembley game was going to be a romp for the Pats.

Even though The Golden Boy threw for over 300 yards and 3 TD's they never had to get out of second gear to beat the Bucs. If Randy Moss hadn't have had another of his "alligator arms" days, the Pats could easily have passed 50 points again.

The Bucs fans (they've always had a big following in the UK) tried their best to make it like a proper home game.

Although it wasn't a great game it was still an entertaining evening.

The Bucs have a big following over there?

Really?

I've never met a single Bucs fan.

[cdbearsfan]

The NFL have got a new toy, primarily aimed at UK fans, to help you decide which team to support. There are three different ways to decide.

http://www.nfl-360.com/pick-team

I tried it out of curiosity and I should be a Packers (whatthefuck???), Broncos, or Browns fan.

I'm not changing though. Once a Bear, always a misery-arse.