We've heard that it was going to happen, but now it appears that it may soon be a done deal. Honestly, I just thought it was going to turn out to be a lot of talk, and nothing else. Never did it seriously cross my mind that it would actually happen. The day that it occurs (if it does in fact happen) will be a sad, sad day. One that I will look back on with nothing but disgust. I just found out the news last night, and it may just ruin the rest of my week.
The Super Bowl may be moving to London.
It came across the wire in England that the NFL's championship game may move to London's Wembley Stadium as soon as the year 2014. Honestly, my confidence in commissioner Roger Goodell would be shaken if this actually happens.
Ever since Goodell took over what I can only assume to be a football-shaped office, the league seems to be overly concerned with gaining popularity outside of the U.S. These efforts were hurt by the shutting down of NFL Europe in June, but greatly aided in 2007 when the league decided to play at least one game overseas every year. Back in 2005, the Arizona Cardinals and San Francisco 49ers drew the largest NFL regular-season crowd in history with 103,467 attending the game...which was played at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City.
Doesn't sound like overseas interest needs any help.
There's another side to this story. Roger Goodell denies that any Super Bowl in the near future will be played outside of the U.S. saying that the league "has never looked at London or Mexico City" as a host of the big game.
The newest rumor that the NFL is outsourcing its championship game came from the BBC on Friday, saying offcials in London were engaged in "substantive talks" with the league about hosting the Super Bowl. Ever since the Giants and Dolphins kicked off the annual England event two years ago, this kind of talk has surfaced and resurfaced every few months.
This year's version of the NFL overseas game will feature the New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers; you can be sure that it will once again spark this debate on sports talk radio shows that have nothing better to talk about.
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