Urgent Message to all football fans

[mr cowboy74]

Sorry, I am not crashing your site, only trying to spead the word. Please read the following article as it affects us all as football fans. If you agree with it, do your part by contacting your team's administration and the NFL's League office. Together we can and will make the difference. Thanks mr cowboy74

Keeping American Football in America

[theFRANCHISE]

Though I agree that the NFL should stay predominantly in America, I don't necessarily agree with the approach in that statement written by the person you quoted.

Other than the fact that English fans would be somewhat offended by the stereotyping the person used ("...so someone who lives in England can say 'Jolly good Footballing there. What's that chap's name? Romo you say. He seems to enjoy his sporting event.'"), I don't think that Roger Goodell is trying to be radical with this idea and take American football entirely away from America.

He's just trying to further Pete Rozelle's initial dream of making the NFL a global entity.

Though I understand the logic behind fans being snubbed in taking away two home games to be played overseas instead, I still don't see Goodell's intent as being malicious nor exclusionary to American fans.

The NFL is a popular sport worldwide. Imagine the joy that international fans feel in being able to attend live NFL games that actually matter, and being able to see the sport that they've enjoyed on TV for so long. That's the same joy that we, as Ravens fans in America, feel when we're able to see our beloved Baltimore Ravens play on Sundays live at M&T Bank Stadium.

Remember the first live game you attended? Remember the butterflies you felt before kickoff? Remember the goosebumps you had during pre-game introductions? Remember the first time you saw Ray Lewis' pre-game dance live, with the fire blazing and the crowd erupting in mass mayhem?

The commissioner doesn't want to rob us of that experience. He just wants to be able to share that experience with fans worldwide who may never know that feeling unless they go out of their way to travel here to see a game.

However...though Goodell has introduced the idea of a Super Bowl overseas, it is merely just that. An idea.

I doubt that will become a reality, as logistics would be difficult to sort out, and fan response would overwhelmingly be against such an idea anyway. Just because there's money at stake doesn't mean greed will override the fans' input into this.

Regardless, I wouldn't jump to conclusions about this expansion taking the "American" out of "American football."

[Mista T]

I wouldn't waste the postage on your proposed letter. The NFL already knows that there would be some fan backlash to losing home games, but is looking to the big picture of global interest, i.e. untapped TV broadcasting dollars (Euros & Yen etc.). I believe that the current plan -- each team playing one "home" game outside the US every 16 years -- is just a transition to the 17 game regular schedule which the NFL has floated, under which no home regular season games (or stadium jobs) would be lost.

[DdaddyD]

Just what we need, one more example of how we arrogant Americans impose our values on the rest of the world. If they want to watch, they can get a satelite dish or internet feed or whatever.

Set aside a hundred or so seats for international fans in our stadiums and see if they get used.

(like they do for the visiting team, they are made available to locals when not used)

Spend some of those travel denari in the U.S.

The world has a BIG chunk of baseball, it cost Boston 50million freakin dollars just to talk to

Dice K. (talk about arrogant) I hate Boston for bending over like that, sooo un-American.

They have their beloved futbaul and they snicker at us because it is a disgrace to fall to

our team. The womens softball team carried a big piece of my American Pride so well so long

that they pulled it from the olimpic games.

Benjamin Franklin said, "They will love us untill they have what we have."

If they want some of MY football go get your own team, build your own stadium and when you think your ready BRING IT! Because I will not let you take it!