London game not fair to Washington fans near Cincinnati

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(10-24-2016, 02:26 PM)ItsOdellThurman Wrote: I believe those were both ROAD games for NE and Pittsburgh.  Big different between playing there and losing a home game that sells out years in advance.

When the teams who have season tickets sold out years in advance are losing a home game to London, wake me up

The fan's beef with losing a home game is mostly with the team's owners, not the NFL. I'm pretty sure they are not forced to go.

But if you're Mike Brown you could be looking at it like: I could have a home game at PBS and make 60% of the revenue of 65,500 seats, or I can have a 'home' game in London and make 60% of the revenue of 85,000 seats....assuming sell outs at both venues. Who knows what other financial incentives the NFL throws in to entice a team to play a game there. 

So while it's a slap in the face to loyal fans, and costly for the local economy, in some situations, the team itself could potentially come out ahead by playing away...from a strictly dollars and cents perspective.

That said, I think the overriding attitude of the owners is that they'll 'take one for the league' now and then to help expand the product globally, which will surely make each owner / team  much richer in the long run.

Business is business.