Hm, I'm not sure how I feel about this.  I love the idea of a worldwide sport that all countries care for pretty equally, and the only two shots of that happening are the NFL expanding beyond the US, or Americans finally embracing Soccer (which will never happen -_-), so I guess it wouldn't hurt to give this a go, but I'm not sure how it'll work.  I don't really like the idea of Europeans playing in a league dominated by countless American teams.  I'd prefer a set up more like Soccer, where they have various local clubs, then a World Cup for national teams.  But I guess it'd be hard to increase the sport's popularity in other countries going that route, much like Soccer here in the US.

Having Europeans compete against American teams, like a London team competing against various American regionals, would only have to be how it works for the start. Once the game has properly grown up in UK/Europe, then it could work how soccer works.

The Brits are a bit to girly to play a mans sport like AF ;P http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utsHE5xWges

That cracked me up. Well done, sir.

i heard one of the guys in sort of charge on our radio last night and he said its down to the owners about having more games in london and which teams come,it sounds like they might end up having 2 games a season over here

in theory you could have a franchise in London but it would take a billionaire owner  to pay over the odds for everything to work imo,not sure how the nfl works in that context

in reality though would the foreign franchise really be competitive in the true sense,i can't see many of the top players wanting to live in london,unless the money is too good to turn down but you have a salary cap i think

Not gonna happen. 

They yet to expand in to Canada the only non US market that coudl support a nfl team.

Europe is just a coke enduced dream.

We Brits buy all the world's best soccer players, I'm sure we can do the same for football.

My coke habit has nothing to do with my NFL in UK dreams.

haha,well not really

they are at real madrid,barcelona,inter,ac milan etc

They're going to an uncapped league next year...

Here's the way I look at it:

If an owner, or a group of owners buy and build a franchise in London, they are going to have the undivided attention of every British American football fan. Rather than divide the interest between a lot of teams (like we do in the US), it'd be likely one, and only one, team in the entire nation. Comparatively, every decently large state in America has two professional teams, and a littany of college teams. This would greatly increase revenues for the London team, which would provide a lot of money for bonuses and return on investment.

Oh, and about putting an NFL team in Canada - I think the major issue with it is that they *do* have to compete with CFL, which may fragment the base. I'd think Mexico is a better target.