APThe Jaguars, Rams and Bengals will play so-called “home” games in London next season, the NFL announced today.
The Jaguars will “host” the Colts on October 2, 2016 at Wembley Stadium, part of the Jaguars’ annual commitment to play at least one game in London.
The Rams will “host” the NFC East team that finishes in the same spot in the standings as the Rams do in their division. That game will take place on October 23 at Twickenham Stadium, the rugby stadium that will be hosting an NFL game for the first time. It won’t be known until the end of the season which NFC East team that will be, and it’s also unclear right now whether the Rams will be giving up a St. Louis home game or a Los Angeles home game.
The Bengals will “host” Washington on October 30 at Wembley Stadium. It’s the first time Cincinnati has given up a home game. It could also make Washington the first team to play back-to-back games in London, if Washington and St. Louis end up in the same place in their respective divisions.
The NFL has not yet announced the kickoff times for the three games. This year, every NFL game in London kicked off at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time.
The league also may play a fourth International Series game. That might mean playing in Mexico City, or a fourth game in London.
So if the Rams move to LA, they are going to take away a home game from them in their first season back there? Seems like a flawless plan.
Bengals have a home game that is 3950 miles away from home.
Rams have a home game that is 4200 miles away from home.
Jaguar have a home game that is 4250 miles away from home.
Nice job, NFL
I can’t stand the London games. I have interest in watching a game at 9a on a Sunday…if the Rams are in Los Angeles their fans will be watching a 6 or 7 AM game.
Goodell and the NFL truely do not care about their fans, it’s to a point where they seem to hold the fans in disdain. I love football, but I really hate the league.
So, the Bengals will host the Redskins
Keep the games played here and televise them over there!
INFL??
Well I guess we have to take the good with the bad. The bad – that the NFL continues to foist this international series on us. The good – waiting, waiting.
Oh, I guess we just have to take the bad… yet again.
Bills should be forced to play all 3 games in London
Redskins.
Now the rest of the world can watch The Red Sausage and Marvin Lewis fold up like a cheap chair too.
To Jags, Rams and even Bengals fans, I feel for you.
That’s BS !
Stop the stupidity!!! Losing a home game does not make the fans happy!!! BOYCOTT WATCHING ALL THESE GAMES!!!
Way to screw the Redskins!
It’s the “National” Football League….. Not “International”
Not fair to take away a teams profitability by playing home games that aren’t at home. I hope the “National” Football League reimburses the home team handsomely for this nonsense
One more thing to add to my dilemma: How long do I keep following a game I love that’s run by an administration I hate.
Greedy Roger and his $$$ lovin Full 32 just stickin it to the fans three more ways.
The product is unwatchable. Excessive commercial breaks. Preposterous rule interpretations. Targeted vendettas against teams that refuse to kneel before Goodell and his henchmen.
NE Patriots fans welcome Jags, Rams, and Bengal fans to the short stick pile. Roger demands you smile and take it.
My suggestion to fans. Avoid pre and post game jibberish. DVR your game and fire past the hour of commercials they subject you to. Watch it on your terms….not theirs. Don’t let Roger dictate to you.
PS…….boycott ESPN…….all they do is lie.
…its all about the money now but I remember back in the day it was more about the fans!
Rather than taking away a team’s home game…..why not simply play these as away games for both teams?
Two London-ers came to the Jags/Titans game last week, they were on the radio show the next morning. It’s working out for the Jags.. we’ll take all the fans we can get, so many nasty haters.
Maybe the NFL should move all the crappy teams like the Browns and the Jaguars overseas and leave them there.
Awful.
Can’t wait to see the Rams play in another London venue. It’s a great road trip!
“Bengals hosting Washington”
This is truly remarkable. We have a professional NFL team playing an NCAA division one football team during the regular season.
How does this work? If Washington wins do they move up in the AP poll?
This crap is so ridiculous, with this push to play games thousands of miles away, and the BS officiating gaffs that continue to go on, the NFL is ruining it’s brand. When will this madness end???
So if, in the off chance, the Bengals make it to or win the Super Bowl the NFL is going to take a home game away from the AFL/NFL champions? That seems fair…
I admit that I liked the report that I heard the other day about expanding the season to 17 games (eliminate .500 teams making the playoffs, hopefully) and having a full slate of 16 games to play at neutral stadiums; but it doesn’t seem fair to a lot of fans to miss out on a home game to play in London or Mexico (or who knows where else…Germany? Italy? Japan?). It’s especially unfair to the teams that sell a lot of season tickets (Packers, Patriots to name 2, though neither have had to give up a home game yet).
Go ahead and expand the regular season, eliminate 2 preseason games, and give everyone a neutral site game throughout the year. That’s a better plan in my mind.
NOOOOOOO!!!!
This is Kroenke “paying” for relocation votes. I’m sure many owners would love the international exposure, i.e.Dallas, without forfeiting a home game.
He tried this a couple of years ago but the stadium authority in STL cited provisions in the lease that made him “reconsider”.
Now that the lease is a moot point, here he goes again.
Weasel. Is this the person the NFL wants to represent it in LA?
Thank goodness Ravens have stated in their contract that all home games are played at M&T Bank Stadium.
Bend over season ticket holder…in fairness since they rip a regular season game maybe they can not require you to purchase 2 pre-season games.
So the REDSKINS might have to play back to back games in London?
Well, our road record stinks anyways. At least we should be acclimated to the place by the second game.
Watching a football game at 9:30 in the morning is way better than anything else I’d be watching on a Sunday morning. Even if its not that good a game… its a wonderful appetizer.
I hope they expand it to every other week… Berlin and Paris I’m looking at you!
Will they EVER send the Patriots overseas?
That’s a lot of revenue these cities are losing to another country, as well as, isolating the people west of the Rockies by the early start times. NFL does not care about it’s American fans and it’s becoming more obvious everyday. Why you would pay for a stadium for 7 games a year is beyond me.
This crap is so ridiculous, with this push to play games thousands of miles away, and the BS officiating gaffs that continue to go on, the NFL is ruining it’s brand. When will this madness end???
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It would end if everyone stops watching. So you know, never…..
Obviously, Washington will not be the first team to play back to back games in London as the Jaguars have already done it. Also, if the Bills finish this year in the same place as the Rams, they will go play them in London next year and they played the Jags there this year.
Washington will be at least the third team.
As a Steelers fan, I love the advantage on paper of the Bengals losing a home game. It ruins the integrity of the season, but since the Steelers, Browns, and Ravens benefit, I’m all for it!
How about Cowboys and Patriots play a home game over there.
A comment on the Jags playing in London once a year- as a Jags ST holder, I am fine with it and I think a lot of our fans are, too. It is a big revenue boost, which we need, and it actually reduces our ST cost by 10%.
As the Jags get better, and it appears that they are, I may feel differently but for now it’s no big deal.
On the down side you have 5 crappy teams playing in London next year.
On the up side (for bengals fans) a 9:30 am start is about as far from prime time as you can get so they should actually win that game.
Winners: Bengal fans.
Losers: All the rest of us including the poor people in London.
So if, in the off chance, the Bengals make it to or win the Super Bowl the NFL is going to take a home game away from the AFL/NFL champions? That seems fair…
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I’m a Bengals fan. It’s our own fault for not filling our stadium. The MNF game wasn’t sold out (for an 8-0 team!). This Sunday’s game probably won’t be.
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On the up side (for bengals fans) a 9:30 am start is about as far from prime time as you can get so they should actually win that game.
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Well played, sir.
People that post on this message board are so narrow minded and insular. As a UK based NFL fan I love the international series and have been to every game since 2007. The NFL needs as a business to grow and has saturated the US market. It needs to new markets to diversify its fanbase and the international series are ways of bringing its product to new markets and growing the number of fans. Deal with it.
Ha. How’s it feel, Bengals, Jags and Rams season-ticket holders? Ready to fork out an extra grand or two to fly and stay in London? The NFL could care a whit about you because TV and merchandise make true fans obsolete. Every year, the game degrades a little more.
I understand that the London are very profitable for the teams. More revenue than a home game. Maybe it’s the stadium size differences?
razzlejag says:
Nov 25, 2015 10:40 AM
Obviously, Washington will not be the first team to play back to back games in London as the Jaguars have already done it. Also, if the Bills finish this year in the same place as the Rams, they will go play them in London next year and they played the Jags there this year.
Washington will be at least the third team.
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You missed the point, razzlejag. Smith meant that the Redskins would be the first team to placy back-to-back games in London IN THE SAME SEASON. No team has ever done that.
this is further evidence that the Rams are NOT coming to LA.. But LA Rams are gonna spin it another way.
I’m not even a soccer fan… and… I can’t wait until the Premier League comes to the United States and sets up shop.
The NFL has lost the plot.
Some of the lousy reasons the NFL gives when they extort cities to gift the multi billionaires a free lavish stadium was that the cities would receive millions in tax revenue and they create thousands of jobs. Well, when the greedy NFL goes overseas, the cities lose out on that revenue. All those part-time minimum wage “jobs” (security, concessions) are lost on game day.
Cities would be better off recruiting companies to build high rises there where high paying office jobs are being generated and are used every day instead of only about 20 times per year.
“Will they EVER send the Patriots overseas?”
They’ve played in London 2 or 3 times already.
And you know, a simple internet search would have told you that.
SMH
St Louis (The city that’s not allowed to vote on whether or not their tax dollars are used to build a stadium) is losing games at that stadium that was built using their money without their consent. This would be illegal in literally any other enterprise. If you wanted to build a McDonalds™ The city damn sure wouldn’t be funneling tax dollars to you to build it.
As a Bengals season-ticket holder I’m excited about it. I’m already looking in to heading to London with friends for an epic trip next year.
It will be awesome to tailgate with the Brits and other Bengals fans who travel there.
I have and will always refuse to watch any NFL game that is not played in the USA.
Lots of cry babies around here who apparently haven’t learned how to change the channel, or even just turn the TV off.
Typical NFL – always putting the fans last in their decision making. If s a fan of one of these teams, I would be livid and writing all sorts of letters and emails to the owners, NFL, etc.
“People that post on this message board are so narrow minded and insular. As a UK based NFL fan I love the international series and have been to every game since 2007. ”
Have been to London quite a few times doing the lighting on a concert tour and love it there. The British and UK fans are fantastic. The city is great and it must drive you crazy seeing Americans comment about London like its someplace in the third world.
So the Jaguars fans lose the best match-up of the season? Way to go NFL.
I guess the NFL wants to inflict Little Danny on unsuspecting Brits.
Couldn’t it be a road game for both teams at a neutral site that way each team keeps their allotted home games…
Everyone complaining about games being played outside the US just because they are being played outside the US need to get a life. A very small % of any fanbase actually go to their team’s games every year so complaining about the hardship is laughable. And for you that just have an issue about games being played outside the US for whatever reason you are trying to come up with, please go ahead and seek therapy, why in the hell would you care?
The ONLY reason to have a problem with this for the VAST majority of fans of the game is that these games are almost always crap games against crap teams and we are going to watch it anyway because its football. Normally, when you want to watch football, you usually only have to settle watching team’s like the colts or the jags if you are in their media area and that means you are probably a fan of the crap team to begin with.
The NFL just needs to bring back NFL Europa maybe rebranded or something. Instead of 10 teams maybe 12 so there could be 4 div of 3 teams each? Because as an NFL Fan for 30+ years, i do not want to see my team lose a home game (thus my city looses out on a lot of revenue, not to mention i don’t get to go bc it’s across the pond) so we can send sample sizes of “The NFL” to our neighbors on the other side.
They had NFL Europa and it didn’t do well as a spring league with only 3 teams out of the 10 being from Europe.
I think they need to work within their own country, instead of trying to have 7 NFL teams trying to co-ordinate the logistics of it all, just have all 10 teams be from Europe.
I don’t have a problem with games being played in Europe. I do have a problem with taking home games from a publicly financed stadium in a place like Cincinnati (Hamilton county owes hundreds of millions on Paul Brown Stadium). There’s certainly some value in having Londoners hear about the city of Cincinnati, but I doubt that financially it’s the best thing for the county to have the stadium empty when it’s really only used for 8 games a year (not counting preseason BS).
Oh no! The NFL is taking away the jaguar superbowl game next year against Indianapolis. The only game each year the jays and their fans get up for. Whenever the jays beat the Colts at home, they drop confetti and celebrate like they won the superbowl. Surprised they don’t have a downtown parade planned for the week after the Colts home game this year if they happen to win
Yet, they want American taxpayers in cities like San Diego, Oakland, St. Louis and more to fund the stadiums, then GIVE AWAY games to London. Give me a FREAKIN’ BREAK!!! That’s a bunch of BS!!!
STOP EXPORTING OUR GAMES!!!!
Every team in the AFC East played in London this year except Goodells favorite team. When are they going to be forced to play in London?And yes I know the Dolphins did it willingly but that was only an attempt to get on Goodells good side in hopes of hosting a super bowl. But of course the Patriots are on that side already being Kraft and Goodell are besties.
Stop with the madness already!! What ever happened to NFL Europe and why aren’t they playing in London?
iggyfog says:
Nov 25, 2015 10:57 AM
People that post on this message board are so narrow minded and insular. As a UK based NFL fan I love the international series and have been to every game since 2007. The NFL needs as a business to grow and has saturated the US market. It needs to new markets to diversify its fanbase and the international series are ways of bringing its product to new markets and growing the number of fans. Deal with it.
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I am a Jag fan….I understand the reason for it, but I don’t have to really like it.
In 2016, we lose the Colts v Jags home game. For comparison, do you think City or United fans would “deal with it” if either Manchester Derby were played in New York?????
That’s stupid. Who determines who is the home team?
there are more people in Mexico City than the city of New York. Have The Cowboys play the Raiders and you have a guaranteed sell out at Azteca stadium with over 100k in attendance.
I would much rather see a game there at a normal time rather than have the Raiders getting up at 2am pst to get to game. I mean the 10am PST on the east coast requires the players get up at 5am after flying in the day before.
To even it out lets have east coast teams play at 8:30pm on the west coast. We could have Sunday night double headers…..Just move the current 5:30 sunday night game to 5pm….It’s only fair.
I hadn’t thought about the fact that the Bengals are stellar at afternoon games and terrible in the evening, they must be the best team ever at 9am. I’m excited about that.
Three teams that can’t sell a stadium out. I like it. You can watch the game (no more blackout rule) but your team is banished from you for a week. Seems fair.
#supportyourteams
sasattack says: It ruins the integrity of the season, but since the Steelers, Browns, and Ravens benefit, I’m all for it!
Sums it up quite nicely: #1 Good for PIT, #2 Integrity.
3rd straight year in a row miami is going. Whembley fills faster seats than steven ross
Seems to me if the NFL wants to add games to the schedule (17 total iirc) then they would have these extra games played wherever they want instead of screwing the season ticket holders and local businesses.
One thing is for sure, Goodell’s NFL has long lost their way on what’s right & have completely succumbed to the money grab.
Thanks August589, I did misread that.
Why the hatred for the London games. I buy shirts, pay my £120 game pass, pay my sky sports bill, go to Wembley games, train, beer etc. A very expensive investment to watch the game I love. So 3-4 games are lost from a 250 game season, let us fellow English speaking friends from over the pond enjoy a little live football. Please and thank you
Fans don’t pay NFL bills. The League doesn’t care about them.
Godell thinks he expand this game world wide, when in 10 years they are going to have trouble fielding just a few decent teams in the US with many parents opting their children out of football. And while they have a base in Europe, they can’t even field 32 decent teams here in the US on any given Sunday. Some of the games and teams right now absolutely suck.
razzlejag says:
Nov 25, 2015 10:40 AM
Obviously, Washington will not be the first team to play back to back games in London as the Jaguars have already done it. Also, if the Bills finish this year in the same place as the Rams, they will go play them in London next year and they played the Jags there this year.
Washington will be at least the third team.
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The article meant consecutive weeks, not consecutive seasons. Read it again dude.