NFL In London: We Have To Have This Talk Again, Huh?

The Patriots and Bucs are playing their game in London on Sunday, which means it’s time to talk about an NFL franchise in the UK … again.

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Robert Kraft hopes an NFL team will be in 10 years: “It’d be the right thing to do,” he said

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And NFL PR’s Greg Aiello:

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Commish agrees. Just said at Global Sport Summit that London he could see an NFL franchise in UK someday. […]

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Not considering Super Bowl in London until at least there’s an NFL franchise, Commish says.

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Well, hows about this: If they plan on moving a team over to England, they’ll have to navigate their sea vessel around MY DEAD BODY. Ain’t no way REAL FOOTBALL is moving to Europe.

Although the second part of What Goodell said — no Super Bowl in the UK until they have a team — is nice. Because it means, essentially, that there will never be a Super Bowl in the UK. I realize the NFL so desperately wants to beat the NBA on the European Front, but it makes little sense to throw a team overseas. Sure, London can fill up a stadium for one game a season, but can it support a franchise for an entire season? Or an entire decade? Jacksonville can’t even support a team, and it’s in AMERICA. Where we freaking love football. Plus, there are other cities that should be way ahead of London in the franchise pecking order. Like L.A. Or, I don’t know, anywhere else that is in North America and not named “Jacksonville.”