Japan? No fucking way. I'm sorry, I followed the Jets to Jersey, that is really beyond what you can reasonably ask someone.
I'll just go the lazy route and concede this argument, but I just never felt that the playing field was level, even though I can't find evidence of team salary spending prior to 1997 to support my argument. Point to Iggy. junc can go screw, though.
Money makes anything possible. The NFL would schedule such that nobody had to make more trips than necessary. They could easily make an International division including Tokyo, Frankfurt, Rio De Janeiro and London. Then they alter the home/away format such that teams in the division would have either two home games or two road games against each other every season - allowing for back to back weeks of play between two teams in the same location, alternating each year for home/away. They schedule the teams outside the division to play teams in the division on a rotating basis and they make sure that the International teams get long runs of home and road games to minimize their travel. This is all hypothetical based on an un-capped economic system of course. Capping the system would make the International teams unable to compete effectively in terms of luring players to what will be tougher working conditions. The thing to remember about football is that it's really fairly regimented already. Players are used to spending more time in a controlled team environment than you typically see in other sports. This is mainly because the practice to game ratio is much higher in football than in any other sport.
:rofl: That sounds like something Justin's dad would say. Obviously there's no way to know for sure until we have a few uncapped years under our belts, but I can't see a standard NFL franchise that doesn't play in the continental US, save for Mexico, Canada, and possibly Hawaii. Mexico is highly doubtful too.
Ofcourse no fan is going to hate it when his team wins 3 titles after 15 years in which there team didn't win any title. But it's a different situation if your team wins a championship every second year which is fairly normal in a lot of other sports witouth salary cap and a draft system. At a certain point the fans of those teams just don't really care anymore. It's difficult to be really excited before a game if you know for sure your going to win cause your team has 10 times as much money as the other team. Isen't one of the things that makes sport great seeing good players compete against each other? If you have a good wr and a good cornerback it's interesting to see them play against each other to see who comes out on top. That's what makes good sport. Not seeing them beat some sore loser. oh and:finssuck:
