01-20-2016, 03:45 PM
(01-19-2016, 09:09 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: I know we have some British Bengals fans on the forum, so sorry in advance for saying this... but F NFL games in Europe.
Built a stadium for a billionaire on taxpayer dime, built bars and restaurants around it and everything, and then took away one of the home games. Parking lots, bars, restaurants, stadium workers, everyone. Just got shafted out of a lot of business/work. Plus we fans get one less home game.
Now rather than 2 out of 10 games being preseason for season tickets, 2 out of 9 games are preseason. Sure they lower the price for the season tickets, but that doesn't change the fact they're still crushing you on preseason, and now it's even worse. Can't wait until they add some Mexico games, and some Japan games, and some Germany games and we're left with 4 actual home games a year.
"Home" teams in London are 5-9. (Some home field advantage)
Since they started doing more than 1 London game a year in 2013, there have been 8 games. The average margin of victory has been roughly 16 points (16.125 more specifically). So the games aren't even really that good/competitive.
Like I said im from England, but im in complete agreement, and I think any sensible European fan would say the same. It's great for us personally, but it's imo a pretty ridiculous idea.
I would say the margin of victory point (to my mind anyways) is a bit of a moot one. We dont get the top range of matchups over here, even as an ardent NFL fan I cant say over the course of the Wembley games that I've been that intrigued to go to most of the games we've had on over here. We dont ever get the likes of Broncos-Patriots, we get Jags vs somebody who will beat them handily.
I'd say Redskins-Bengals (both playoff teams this year) is one of the best matchups we've ever had over here, and its not really a blockbuster kind of game. It's a good matchup and it could be a great game, but it's not the type of game you'd have on Sunday Night Football over there. But as said I don't objectively think the NFL games here make much sense at all, so it makes sense not to have a top-flight matchup at Wembley.
