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Me too, but it will never happen: the 'field' is too narrow........ I would love to see a MLB game at theNWHL stadium some day..
Me too, but it will never happen: the 'field' is too narrow........ I would love to see a MLB game at theNWHL stadium some day..
All this talk of NFL franchise at wembley, maybe at NWHL and yet no one has mentioned it's a sport in huge crisis.
Some Ex-players and commentators are saying in as little as 10 years it could dissapear from american life. Why? It destroys players brains. They get CTE from thousands of sub concussive blows to the head, and every single ex-player may be affected, including high school and college players! Decent PBS docu here if interested...
I believe this push to europe by the NFL is in direct response to the crisis at home and trying to keep a sinking ship afloat or cash in while they can. Anyway it's a bit short sighted to invest so heavily an dual purpose NFL ground as these facts haven't just recently come to light.
But if Kahn wants to move jaguars he’d have to get permission from Brent anyway.
Will Smith did a movie on the pathologist who discovered the link. NFL fought hard to bury it. Maybe NFL will have to look at rule changes to lower the risks. Rugby is a contact sport but doesn't carry the same high risk because tackling isn't the ridiculous just throw yourself headfirst at someone and you have to hold on in the tackle. Shoulder charges are banned. Get rid of the crazy padding and helmets. Maybe I've just ruined the game but it will ruin itself if it keeps destroying players brains, a lot of them young men.
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A weight limit would reduce risks, I can't do the maths but I suspect the force created by two 200lb players hitting at ten miles an hour is considerably less than two 250lb players hitting at ten miles an hour and the brain of a 250lb is no better protected than the brain of a 200lb player. I guess that suggestion may not go down too well in the sport though.Will Smith did a movie on the pathologist who discovered the link. NFL fought hard to bury it. Maybe NFL will have to look at rule changes to lower the risks. Rugby is a contact sport but doesn't carry the same high risk because tackling isn't the ridiculous just throw yourself headfirst at someone and you have to hold on in the tackle. Shoulder charges are banned. Get rid of the crazy padding and helmets. Maybe I've just ruined the game but it will ruin itself if it keeps destroying players brains, a lot of them young men.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3322364/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_12
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Me too, but it will never happen: the 'field' is too narrow.
Yes because Fulham need a 90k stadiumSurely the biggest financial gain out of the Wembley Kahn deal would be him moving Fulham to Wembley and developing the land. I think the West Ham flat development is worth about £500m surely Fulham would be worth £2-3bn on property prices. That has to be his incentive, I don’t see how moving the Jaguars to London is of any great financial benefit to him. Wouldn’t be surprised if he renamed them as well to some stupid Fulham/Wembley hybrid like MK dons. If I was a Fulham fan I’d be extremely worried.
I doubt the country that allows people to own a gun is going to shut down the NFL due to concussionAll this talk of NFL franchise at wembley, maybe at NWHL and yet no one has mentioned it's a sport in huge crisis.
Some Ex-players and commentators are saying in as little as 10 years it could dissapear from american life. Why? It destroys players brains. They get CTE from thousands of sub concussive blows to the head, and every single ex-player may be affected, including high school and college players! Decent PBS docu here if interested...
I believe this push to europe by the NFL is in direct response to the crisis at home and trying to keep a sinking ship afloat or cash in while they can. Anyway it's a bit short sighted to invest so heavily an dual purpose NFL ground as these facts haven't just recently come to light.
But if Kahn wants to move jaguars he’d have to get permission from Brent anyway. As the NFL games would exceed the quota. And tbh he’d probably be fine with 50k for Fulham. Not sure which parts of the cottage are listed. I’d presume the old stand that faces the road. Im sure some clever architect could incorporate that into a build. Wembley only turned a profit of £5m last season. A £600m purchase just to move a NFL team makes no sense when he’s currently renting a stadium for peanuts. Also was surprised to see Wembley is actually close to Fulham than spurs. It’s only 9 miles from Fulham. Let’s see how it pans out. But if you take a step back and just think the owner of a PL team is buying a stadium for £600m just 9 miles from where his team plays in an ancient stadium it makes you wonder.
In fact I would love to see a MLB game at theNWHL stadium some day..
Me too, but it will never happen: the 'field' is too narrow.
The only football stadium that could accommodate a baseball game is the London Stadium. Indeed, there are plans to play two Yankees vs. Red Sox games there next summer.
i agree with this and have thought that was the main motivation all along. So, basically he will get wembley for nothing. Fulham will most probably never fill wembley but I suppose they might ground share it with Chelsea?Surely the biggest financial gain out of the Wembley Kahn deal would be him moving Fulham to Wembley and developing the land. I think the West Ham flat development is worth about £500m surely Fulham would be worth £2-3bn on property prices. That has to be his incentive, I don’t see how moving the Jaguars to London is of any great financial benefit to him. Wouldn’t be surprised if he renamed them as well to some stupid Fulham/Wembley hybrid like MK dons. If I was a Fulham fan I’d be extremely worried.
He probably wouldn't actually. The NFL has a much shorter season - they'd only have 8 home matches, up to perhaps 10 with playoffs. And these would replace existing matches there e.g. England games in the Autumn and the 2 NFL games already at Wembley each year so they could do it without any increase in the number of overall events. Meanwhile Fulham would play at a minimum 19 home matches, and could play up to 35. Even if you limited it to 50k Brent would likely intervene given this would be permanent rather than a short-term move.
If this was as easy as you suggest, it would have happened ages ago. You wouldn't need Wembley - somebody would've brought Fulham for not very much, moved them literally anywhere (Kingsmeadow? Loftus Road?), turned the Cottage into housing and pocketed a couple of billion in profit. Thankfully the regulations are strong enough to make that very difficult or impossible.
Then they'd only have one football team in FulhamThe local council and local residents would like nothing better than have Fulham move to wembley or anywhere but Fulham.
Yes that's a good point. Europeans are probably more willing to accept some safer version of the sport. But I don't think there are any easy solutions - no one is going to accept touch football. Ironically, its probably all the body armour that has brought about the dangers, but I am no expert.
One thing I was also thinking of saying but didn't, is that I find it a bit questionable simply on ethical grounds by Levy to invest in a sport where a significant number of ex-players are left with an extremely bad quality of life after their short careers. Remember that touching feel good movie with Sandra Bullock based on a true story "the Blindside"? Michael Oher ended up being discharged on medical grounds after being in concussion protocol for 9 months