Rest of schedule makes London trip manageable for Chargers

By Tom Robinson  |   Friday, July 04, 2008  |  Comments( 14 )

 San Diego Chargers
The San Diego Chargers will arrive at the midpoint of the 2008 National Football League season in a place where no West Coast team has ever been – playing a regular-season game in Europe. The Chargers have many reasons to believe that leaving the Pacific coast and crossing the Atlantic Ocean does not have to be a combination that disrupts the...
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Hindi		 01:36 PM
07/04/2008
If the Chargers are successful, the schedule-makers will be lauded. If the Chargers are not, the London trip may not stay a yearly tradition.

Spreading the NFL into Europe would be as good for the NFL as it has been for the NBA.
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RedskinFan21ST		 01:52 PM
07/04/2008
I'm kind of nuetral on the thought of the NFL going into Europe. I don't think thats there talent for the NFL to scout liek there is for the NBA. As for viewers and a finicial stand point, yes it's good to expand. The Chargers will be fine regardless of this game.
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nhartman		 02:59 PM
07/04/2008
The reason there's not talent to scout in Europe is that American Football hasn't been promoted there. Yes, they had NFL Europe for 16 years, but if they sent all the reject soccer players across the pond, we wouldn't pay to watch those games, either. Since no truly high-caliber football has ever been done (until last year, if you call Giants 13 Dolphins 10 truly high-calibur) means that there's not even a useful local model of what an NFL prospect would look like. I think if football were more popular over there, it would be more prevalent, increasing the pool of talent and the techniques for development. It's kind of a chicken/egg question, except that in this case, the NFL is offering to settle it once and for all by giving London a chicken and an incubator. The development of European prospects at any time in the forseeable future depends entirely on the NFL's--the real NFL, not Europa--presence.
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