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Windfall conducted a statistical analysis of the characteristics of existing NFL team metro areas to identify 10 cities that could host expansion.
Opening ceremony at Wembley Stadium before the Denver Broncos vs. San Francisco 49ers game in the NFL International Series, 2010. A potential London NFL franchise is a hypothetical National Football League (NFL) American football team based in London, formed as a new expansion team or by relocating one of the existing 32 NFL teams currently based in the United States.
There has often been speculation that the NFL will seek to install a team in Toronto, which is larger than many NFL cities and the second-largest city in North America (behind Mexico City) without an NFL team, but the league insists it has no plans for expansion. The NFL allowed the Buffalo Bills to play one regular-season game a year at ...
Throughout the years, a number of teams in the National Football League (NFL) have either moved or merged.. In the early years, the NFL was not stable and teams moved frequently to survive, or folded only to be resurrected in a different city with the same players and owners, while the Great Depression era saw the movement of most surviving small-town NFL teams to larger cities to ensure ...
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell here with mayor of Sao Paolo, noting “big step” in league’s international presence as games expand to new continent: South America.
Relocation of professional sports teams occurs when a team owner moves a team, generally from one metropolitan area to another, but occasionally between municipalities in the same conurbation. The practice is most common in North America , where a league franchise system is used and the teams are overwhelmingly privately owned.
Fifty-five regular-season games have been played in major international cities from London, Munich, Frankfurt, Sao Paulo, Mexico City and Toronto. --Field Level Media Show comments
The NFL then began its International Series, holding at least one regular-season game at Wembley Stadium in London every year since 2007. [12] [13] Preliminary talks to expand the NFL season with each team playing one game overseas was curtailed because the expansion was not approved in labor negotiations. [14]