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Wembley Stadium ? The Ideal Home for an NFL Franchise (Photo: bestourism.com)

The last two weeks has seen me write about the NFL in London, its history and the fact that certain members of the NFL alumni feel less than enamoured about the prospects of a visit to the UK to promote their sport. All this talk has been leading me down one route, a discussion on the possibility of the NFL developing the one game a year that is currently played into the ultimate for British NFL fans ? a franchise in London.

Before heading down that route, lets rewind to October last year, the last time the NFL was in town. The game between San Francisco and Denver was one of a supposed two games to be held in the UK during the last NFL
season. There was talk of a second game to be played, possibly in Cardiff, the capital of Wales, at the City?s Millennium Stadium. This was a facility built for the 1999 Rugby World Cup, and in a feature unique to British stadia boasts a retractable roof, allowing the inclement weather to be kept out. This meant that should a game be held there, it would not be a repeat of the 2007 ?Splash Bowl? between Miami and the New York Giants in which torrential rain spoilt the first regular season game in the UK.

The global financial crisis put a stop to that. The NFL, already finding it difficult to persuade one team to give up a home game, knew that finding a second would be impossible. However, Commissioner Roger Goodell on his visit to London last year told reporters: ?Each year, the different barometers indicate that our popularity continues to rise,? adding: ?I think the next step will be multiple games. And if that?s successful then I think the idea of a franchise here is realistic.?

Goodell was talking about Europe as a whole, rather than just the UK, and with an extension of the regular season one of the sticking points no doubt being talked about in lawyer?s offices

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Article Source: http://titansized.com/2011/07/13/view-from-across-the-pond-international-expansion-key-to-nfl-future/

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