NFL Week VII, Electric Boogaloo

[Syt]

Monday is a holiday in Austria, so I can watch all three games ESPN shows here.

6PM New England vs Tampa Bay (at London)
9PM Atlanta at Dallas
1 AM Arizona at NY Giants

[derspiess]

Monday is a holiday in Austria, so I can watch all three games ESPN shows here.

6PM New England vs Tampa Bay (at London)
9PM Atlanta at Dallas
1 AM Arizona at NY Giants

Amerikanerfußballtag! 

[Admiral Yi]

Monday is a holiday in Austria, so I can watch all three games ESPN shows here.

6PM New England vs Tampa Bay (at London)
9PM Atlanta at Dallas
1 AM Arizona at NY Giants

Those are some scheiss match ups. (Gints and Zona might be OK.)

Is it just me or does it seem like the number of awful teams is higher than most years?

[Syt]

Normally we get Vikings and/or Ravens on sundays. Ravens are bye. OTOH they hardly ever show Pittsburgh, which explains my Favre-free sunday this time around.

(Next week is Favre-day again)

[Neil]

Monday is a holiday in Austria, so I can watch all three games ESPN shows here.

6PM New England vs Tampa Bay (at London)
9PM Atlanta at Dallas
1 AM Arizona at NY Giants

Those are some scheiss match ups. (Gints and Zona might be OK.)

Is it just me or does it seem like the number of awful teams is higher than most years?

Whoever scheduled the Patriots and Bucs as their big London exhibition should be fired.  There is nothing interesting in that matchup at all.

[Admiral Yi]

Whoever scheduled the Patriots and Bucs as their big London exhibition should be fired.  There is nothing interesting in that matchup at all.

They're playing in London?  If nothing else then I'd like to see the game for curiosity value.

[Ed Anger]

Monday is a holiday in Austria, so I can watch all three games ESPN shows here.

6PM New England vs Tampa Bay (at London)
9PM Atlanta at Dallas
1 AM Arizona at NY Giants

Those are some scheiss match ups. (Gints and Zona might be OK.)

Is it just me or does it seem like the number of awful teams is higher than most years?

Whoever scheduled the Patriots and Bucs as their big London exhibition should be fired.  There is nothing interesting in that matchup at all.

Whoever came up with the London idea should be raped. The NFL is 'merican.

[ulmont]

Whoever scheduled the Patriots and Bucs as their big London exhibition should be fired.  There is nothing interesting in that matchup at all.

They're playing in London?  If nothing else then I'd like to see the game for curiosity value.

Yeah, the NFL has been doing this for a few years, after shutting down NFL Europe.

[katmai]

Monday is a holiday in Austria, so I can watch all three games ESPN shows here.

6PM New England vs Tampa Bay (at London)
9PM Atlanta at Dallas
1 AM Arizona at NY Giants

Those are some scheiss match ups. (Gints and Zona might be OK.)

Is it just me or does it seem like the number of awful teams is higher than most years?

Hmm,
St Louis
Tampa Bay
Tenn are all winless, nah not that bad, along with three one win teams atm too.

[CountDeMoney]

Whoever scheduled the Patriots and Bucs as their big London exhibition should be fired.  There is nothing interesting in that matchup at all.

They're playing in London?  If nothing else then I'd like to see the game for curiosity value.

Yeah, the NFL has been doing this for a few years, after shutting down NFL Europe.

They held exhibition games in the UK even before NFL Europe, going back to the '80s.  But, looks like it's not going anywhere.

commissioner Roger Goodell expects the league to start playing multiple regular-season games in Britain in the next few years - an expansion that could lead to putting a franchise in London.

Goodell said Friday that "every indicator" shows the British market can support more games and that having a franchise there is of "tremendous interest" to the league. But he stopped short of giving a timeline for expanding the NFL's overseas presence.

"The interest and the enthusiasm for our game continues to grow, and we want to feed that," Goodell said. "We want to respond to that by hopefully bringing more to the UK."

Goodell spoke at a sports conference Friday ahead of Sunday's game between the New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Wembley Stadium. It's the third year in a row the NFL is staging a regular-season game in London, and the league is now looking into playing at least two games a year in Britain, he said. Aside from London, Manchester and Glasgow, Scotland, are being looked at as potential venues.

The league is considering expanding the regular season to 17 or 18 games, with a possibility for every team to play one game abroad. Patriots owner Robert Kraft said if the league wants more of the current franchises to travel internationally for games, the regular season should be extended so that teams can keep the same number of home games. The Bucs are giving up a home game this season.

"I'm not sure our fans would appreciate us giving up a regular-season [home] game, and I know I wouldn't like to do that. But eventually I think there's a chance of that if we expand the schedule," Kraft said.

A London expansion team

[Syt]

They should just make an NFL branch over here in Europe. They could call it, dunno ... NFL Europe?

[HisMajestyBOB]

Whoever scheduled the Patriots and Bucs as their big London exhibition should be fired.  There is nothing interesting in that matchup at all.

They're playing in London?  If nothing else then I'd like to see the game for curiosity value.

Yeah, the NFL has been doing this for a few years, after shutting down NFL Europe.

They held exhibition games in the UK even before NFL Europe, going back to the '80s.  But, looks like it's not going anywhere.

commissioner Roger Goodell expects the league to start playing multiple regular-season games in Britain in the next few years - an expansion that could lead to putting a franchise in London.

Goodell said Friday that "every indicator" shows the British market can support more games and that having a franchise there is of "tremendous interest" to the league. But he stopped short of giving a timeline for expanding the NFL's overseas presence.

"The interest and the enthusiasm for our game continues to grow, and we want to feed that," Goodell said. "We want to respond to that by hopefully bringing more to the UK."

Goodell spoke at a sports conference Friday ahead of Sunday's game between the New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Wembley Stadium. It's the third year in a row the NFL is staging a regular-season game in London, and the league is now looking into playing at least two games a year in Britain, he said. Aside from London, Manchester and Glasgow, Scotland, are being looked at as potential venues.

The league is considering expanding the regular season to 17 or 18 games, with a possibility for every team to play one game abroad. Patriots owner Robert Kraft said if the league wants more of the current franchises to travel internationally for games, the regular season should be extended so that teams can keep the same number of home games. The Bucs are giving up a home game this season.

"I'm not sure our fans would appreciate us giving up a regular-season [home] game, and I know I wouldn't like to do that. But eventually I think there's a chance of that if we expand the schedule," Kraft said.

A London expansion team

Move the Rams there. Or the Raiders, or Lions.
Or all three.

[Neil]

Actually, moving the Lions would be a great idea.  Detroit is a terrible place anyways, and they'd be the Lions of Albion.

[JacobL]

A rainy day in London may lead to a long Sunday for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The Bucs were supposed to practice at Wembley Stadium on Saturday afternoon, but the session has been canceled due to inclement weather. Rick Stroud of the St. Petersburg Times believes the team will have a walkthrough at their hotel, but the Bucs are going to be heading into this week's game with limited preparation.

[Syt]

Is that much different from how they usually play?