NFL Relocations and League Expansion

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" Hey Art chuck me the ball, so that I can hold the mantle as the biggest piece of shit as an NFL Team Owner."



images-4.jpg Who do I pass the ball to, who wants be be the new Turd of the NFL


They deserve each other, as two of the biggest festering turds to have ever owned a team and both traitors to boot.

The guy who pissed on Art Modell's grave should have been given a commendation rather than been charged.

How ironic a story about a guy who pisses on a grave of a guy who shits on a City.
 
See, I could accept the Raiders relocating as the city didn't give a flying f*ck
ANd San Diego didn't give a logical alternative and just wanted to go the cheap option, so I can kinda tolerate them moving.

But the way Spanos acted? I hope St Louis f*cks him right up. Up there with Malcolm Glazer for biggest POS in sports management.
 
See, I could accept the Raiders relocating as the city didn't give a flying f*ck
ANd San Diego didn't give a logical alternative and just wanted to go the cheap option, so I can kinda tolerate them moving.

But the way Spanos acted? I hope St Louis f*cks him right up. Up there with Malcolm Glazer for biggest POS in sports management.
Hahaha had to read 17 pages to see what John Spano did now. Not Spanos. 🤣
 

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NFL awards international marketing rights in eight countries to 18 teams

Posted by Josh Alper on December 15, 2021, 3:14 PM EST

The NFL’s continuing efforts to expand its global reach continued at this week’s league meeting in Dallas when international marketing rights in eight countries were awarded to 18 teams.

Some of the teams were granted those marketing rights in multiple countries, so there were 26 rights awarded in total. The teams will have access to these countries for marketing, fan engagement, and other initiatives to build the fan base outside of the United States.

The league previously announced that all 32 teams will play in foreign countries over the next eight seasons and Wednesday’s announcement says the league “will use its best efforts” to have teams play in their marketing areas.

“Today’s announcement is a significant milestone in our efforts to broaden the NFL’s global reach by building long-term relationships with these international markets that will play a large role in the continued growth and expansion of our sport for years to come,” Buccaneers owner and NFL international committee chairman Joel Glazer said in a statement.

The full list of rights assigned on Wednesday is below:

Australia: Los Angeles Rams
Brazil: Miami Dolphins
Canada: Minnesota Vikings, Seattle Seahawks
China: Los Angeles Rams
Germany: Carolina Panthers, Kansas City Chiefs, New England Patriots, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Mexico: Arizona Cardinals, Dallas Cowboys, Denver Broncos, Houston Texans, Kansas City Chiefs, Las Vegas Raiders, Los Angeles Rams, Pittsburgh Steelers, San Francisco 49ers
Spain: Chicago Bears, Miami Dolphins
United Kingdom: Chicago Bears, Jacksonville Jaguars, Miami Dolphins, Minnesota Vikings, New York Jets, San Francisco 49ers
 
NFL awards international marketing rights in eight countries to 18 teams

Posted by Josh Alper on December 15, 2021, 3:14 PM EST

The NFL’s continuing efforts to expand its global reach continued at this week’s league meeting in Dallas when international marketing rights in eight countries were awarded to 18 teams.

Some of the teams were granted those marketing rights in multiple countries, so there were 26 rights awarded in total. The teams will have access to these countries for marketing, fan engagement, and other initiatives to build the fan base outside of the United States.

The league previously announced that all 32 teams will play in foreign countries over the next eight seasons and Wednesday’s announcement says the league “will use its best efforts” to have teams play in their marketing areas.

“Today’s announcement is a significant milestone in our efforts to broaden the NFL’s global reach by building long-term relationships with these international markets that will play a large role in the continued growth and expansion of our sport for years to come,” Buccaneers owner and NFL international committee chairman Joel Glazer said in a statement.

The full list of rights assigned on Wednesday is below:

Australia: Los Angeles Rams
Brazil: Miami Dolphins
Canada: Minnesota Vikings, Seattle Seahawks
China: Los Angeles Rams
Germany: Carolina Panthers, Kansas City Chiefs, New England Patriots, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Mexico: Arizona Cardinals, Dallas Cowboys, Denver Broncos, Houston Texans, Kansas City Chiefs, Las Vegas Raiders, Los Angeles Rams, Pittsburgh Steelers, San Francisco 49ers
Spain: Chicago Bears, Miami Dolphins
United Kingdom: Chicago Bears, Jacksonville Jaguars, Miami Dolphins, Minnesota Vikings, New York Jets, San Francisco 49ers

This sounds dumb? I wonder what it will actually involve. Nobody in Australia likes the Rams and I feel they won't be changing that?
 
This sounds dumb? I wonder what it will actually involve. Nobody in Australia likes the Rams and I feel they won't be changing that?
I think it means a huge influx of Rams gear into Aust sports stores. As a first step. Maybe some Rams players will come out here during off season and kick a Sherrin with some AFL players, go to some schools, media interviews with staple networks.
 
I think it means a huge influx of Rams gear into Aust sports stores. As a first step. Maybe some Rams players will come out here during off season and kick a Sherrin with some AFL players, go to some schools, media interviews with staple networks.

You think? Interesting. I don't see the Rams becoming this really popular team. Their jerseys are disgusting and I dunno if people are really clamoring to buy the bullshit they stock at Rebel Sport
 
I actually love the Rams jerseys.

I do think it's mostly a silly idea though. Anyone with an interest in the NFL already has a team - just how much engagement are they expecting from those that don't.

Not to mention the Rams are spread across 3 other nations. How much priority are they giving to Aus specifically?
 
Some bloke on twitter was trying to tell me the teams are going to play games in the countries. Won't be happening here any time soon, or ever really. Wouldn't work with timezones would it?
 
St. Louis gets its $790 million, just in time for Christmas

Posted by Mike Florio on December 24, 2021, 1:14 PM EST

St. Nick had an extra special present for the folks in St. Louis.

Via Ben Frederickson of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Rams relocation settlement check has cleared.

That’s a total payout of $790 million, with $276.5 million of that amount going to a pair of law firms that will be having a very Merry Christmas and an incredibly Happy New Year. Especially since the fee works out to an average of $10.6 million per equity member of each firm.

This leaves $513.5 million for the various St. Louis entities that sued the NFL over the decision of the Rams to return to L.A. after the 2015 season. It’s not chump change, but it shows that the plaintiffs had the league on the run. They could have gotten more at trial. They could have, in theory, gotten so much that the league would have offered an expansion team as part of an effort to make it all go away.

They’s not to say they did the wrong thing by settling. Litigation entails risk. They took a large bird in the hand. There quite possibly was a far bigger bird in the bush. We’ll never know what it may have been.
But we do know this. The NFL coughed up more than three quarters of a billion dollars to clean up the mess that was made when the Rams left St. Louis.
 

San Diego plots potential litigation over Chargers relocation

Posted by Mike Florio on January 16, 2022, 11:49 AM EST

With St. Louis getting $790 million from the NFL over the re-relocation of the Rams to L.A., someone in San Diego has gotten an idea.
As explained by Jeff McDonald of the San Diego Union-Tribune, there’s a movement in the former home of the Chargers to sue the NFL over the team’s departure.

Former City Attorney Michael Aguirre has vowed to pursue legal action on his own, if San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria doesn’t authorize a lawsuit. In a letter sent Friday to Gloria, Aguirre promised to file a lawsuit of his own on Friday, January 21.

Gloria presumably would be filing in his capacity as a taxpayer.

“There is established legal precedent for the city of San Diego to recover taxpayer losses from the NFL and the Chargers, as was done under similar circumstances by the city of St. Louis and the St. Louis Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority,” Aguirre wrote, via McDonald.

Given that the Chargers left in 2016, the statute of limitations for some if not most if not all of the potential legal claims has likely expired by now. For example, California has a relatively short four-year deadline for filing a lawsuit arising from the breach of a written contract. Some states allow as many as 10 years to initiate legal action for contract violations.

Aguirre surely realizes this. That’s why the entire effort may ultimately be a political game, aimed at creating the impression that the powers-that-be blew a chance at collecting hundreds of millions by not filing a lawsuit while it could.

Gloria is a bystander in all of this. He won the job via an election in November 2020. Kevin Faulconer was the Mayor of San Diego when the Chargers moved, and during the four years thereafter.
 

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If you're going to make that call, give us how you think it would work (where in season, byes, timezone, stadium etc)
Rams and another team have a bye together week 6.....they fly out together to Sydney after the conclusion of week 5....they spend week 6 in Sydney training, acclimating, visiting Sydney talk shows, at Westfield shopping centers, they play the week 7 game at Homebush stadium or the football stadium in either Sydney or Parramatta. When the game is over, they fly back to the US. Leaves them with a short amount of time to re-acclimate.
 
Rams and another team have a bye together week 6.....they fly out together to Sydney after the conclusion of week 5....they spend week 6 in Sydney training, acclimating, visiting Sydney talk shows, at Westfield shopping centers, they play the week 7 game at Homebush stadium or the football stadium in either Sydney or Parramatta. When the game is over, they fly back to the US. Leaves them with a short amount of time to re-acclimate.

Doesn't seem realistic to me. That short of a break on the way back plus the jet lag?

What time would the game be?
Homebush is a joke anyway they shouldn't play there.
G maybe or Marvel.
 
Doesn't seem realistic to me. That short of a break on the way back plus the jet lag?

What time would the game be?
Homebush is a joke anyway they shouldn't play there.
G maybe or Marvel.

yea, Sydney is a shit sports city with shit stadiums. They dont deserve events.
 
I got it.....the hypothetical week 7 game in Australia is played mid week between week 6 and week 7 ( US time). Gives both teams an even amount of time before and after the game before their next game in the US

Just play two teams both with a bye week the following week. Pretty simple I'd have thought.
 

Chargers, Rams see big increases in local TV ratings in Los Angeles market​

Posted by Michael David Smith on January 24, 2022, 12:52 PM EST


The NFL spent two decades trying to find the right plan for moving back into Los Angeles in large part because of how lucrative the TV revenue from America’s second-largest market can be. So the league has to be pleased with the results from 2021.

According to Sports Business Journal, the Chargers’ local TV ratings in Los Angeles rose by 25 percent in 2021 compared to 2020, the biggest increase of any team in the league. The Rams’ local rating increased by 14 percent from 2020.

The Chargers and Rams get lower local TV ratings than most NFL teams, but because the Los Angeles market is so big, the NFL can accept that. For instance, the Rams’ local rating of 10.5 is about half the 20.9 local rating that the Cardinals drew in Phoenix. But because the Los Angeles market has 5.7 million television households and the Phoenix market has 2.2 million television households, more people watch the Rams in Los Angeles than watch the Cardinals in Phoenix. (The TV rating represents the percentage of TV households in an area that are watching.)

The market that had the highest local rating was Buffalo, where Bills games drew an average rating of 47.16. Kansas City was second at 45.28.
 

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