London game not fair to Washington fans near Cincinnati

[Benton]

(10-24-2016, 03:02 PM)london_bengal Wrote: Technically 256 matches means 256 home teams and 256 away teams (because each match has one home team and one away team).

But your general point is 100% correct :-

256 matches with one team the home team in each means 256 home team slots and 32 teams means (256/32) 8 home games per team at the end of the regular season.

256 matches with one team the away team in each means 256 away team slots and 32 teams means (256/32) 8 away games per team at the end of the regular season.

If the three London and one Mexico City game counted as away games for both teams as some have suggested there would be 252 home team slots and 260 away team slots at the end of the season. I.e. you couldn't mathamatically finish with each team having had 8 home and 8 away matches.

The only way every team gets 8 actual home matches in their own stadium is if there are no international matches (my preferred option). But the NFL doesn't want that because it's 32 owners (the team owners) don't want that because they see more $$$$$$ to be made by whoring the league out around the world.

I'm admittedly bad at math, but if you expand it to eight games, I was thinking it worked out to where nobody loses a real home game.

Regardless, though, it's a horrible direction. Not like re-instituting the military draft or handing out cigarettes to preschoolers, but horrible enough. It's one more thing to distance traditional fans from the sport in hopes of adding more. NFL Europe didn't work out for a lot of reasons, mostly because the talent level wasn't there. That doesn't mean you should take actual NFL talent and try to wedge it into the market a few times a year. I'd have less of an issue if they just added two expansion teams (London and Mexico, or London and some other European city) and go that route.