Packers Huddle

go pak go wrote: ↑

28 Jun 2022 12:04

Pckfn23 wrote: ↑

28 Jun 2022 11:52

@go pak go NFC team paired with an AFC team. Play in small college stadiums or even large HS stadiums. I think it would be pretty cool.

Exactly. Any team the Packers, Vikings, Bears are affiliated with will crush it. If you partner an NFC North Team with an AFC South team (or Miami)...you will get the Wisconsin/Minnesota snowbirds in the South for your March games and then Wisconsin/Minnesota fans in the north in your nicer April games.

There are markets that it just won't work. Your California teams won't go because they hardly go to regular season games. There is too much going on in big markets. But your midwest teams would eat it up and the cost of playing there is a lot cheaper.

Like if the Vikings/Jaguars played the Packers/Dolphins in a South Dakota stadium (we have high school stadiums and two large college stadiums with one being a dome)...I guarantee you it would be a sell out. Again, keep the stadiums small but half the league would be really successful. I guarantee a game in some Wisconsin town would be sold out too as long as the day is nice.

Now a Lions/Texans team maybe wouldn't be as successful, but I still think if you have two games in a small stadium in a state once a year....your die-hards will show up.

go pak go wrote: ↑

28 Jun 2022 12:04

Pckfn23 wrote: ↑

28 Jun 2022 11:52

@go pak go NFC team paired with an AFC team. Play in small college stadiums or even large HS stadiums. I think it would be pretty cool.

Exactly. Any team the Packers, Vikings, Bears are affiliated with will crush it. If you partner an NFC North Team with an AFC South team (or Miami)...you will get the Wisconsin/Minnesota snowbirds in the South for your March games and then Wisconsin/Minnesota fans in the north in your nicer April games.

There are markets that it just won't work. Your California teams won't go because they hardly go to regular season games. There is too much going on in big markets. But your midwest teams would eat it up and the cost of playing there is a lot cheaper.

Like if the Vikings/Jaguars played the Packers/Dolphins in a South Dakota stadium (we have high school stadiums and two large college stadiums with one being a dome)...I guarantee you it would be a sell out. Again, keep the stadiums small but half the league would be really successful. I guarantee a game in some Wisconsin town would be sold out too as long as the day is nice.

Now a Lions/Texans team maybe wouldn't be as successful, but I still think if you have two games in a small stadium in a state once a year....your die-hards will show up.

Pckfn23 wrote: ↑

28 Jun 2022 12:43

go pak go wrote: ↑

28 Jun 2022 12:04

Pckfn23 wrote: ↑

28 Jun 2022 11:52

@go pak go NFC team paired with an AFC team. Play in small college stadiums or even large HS stadiums. I think it would be pretty cool.

Exactly. Any team the Packers, Vikings, Bears are affiliated with will crush it. If you partner an NFC North Team with an AFC South team (or Miami)...you will get the Wisconsin/Minnesota snowbirds in the South for your March games and then Wisconsin/Minnesota fans in the north in your nicer April games.

There are markets that it just won't work. Your California teams won't go because they hardly go to regular season games. There is too much going on in big markets. But your midwest teams would eat it up and the cost of playing there is a lot cheaper.

Like if the Vikings/Jaguars played the Packers/Dolphins in a South Dakota stadium (we have high school stadiums and two large college stadiums with one being a dome)...I guarantee you it would be a sell out. Again, keep the stadiums small but half the league would be really successful. I guarantee a game in some Wisconsin town would be sold out too as long as the day is nice.

Now a Lions/Texans team maybe wouldn't be as successful, but I still think if you have two games in a small stadium in a state once a year....your die-hards will show up.

Maybe not even have a home stadium. Play a game in every contiguous state. 8 games a week. 48 states. 6 weeks. Every team plays in every state every 8 years. Lease a stadium in each state.

go pak go wrote: ↑

28 Jun 2022 12:53

Pckfn23 wrote: ↑

28 Jun 2022 12:43

go pak go wrote: ↑

28 Jun 2022 12:04

Exactly. Any team the Packers, Vikings, Bears are affiliated with will crush it. If you partner an NFC North Team with an AFC South team (or Miami)...you will get the Wisconsin/Minnesota snowbirds in the South for your March games and then Wisconsin/Minnesota fans in the north in your nicer April games.

There are markets that it just won't work. Your California teams won't go because they hardly go to regular season games. There is too much going on in big markets. But your midwest teams would eat it up and the cost of playing there is a lot cheaper.

Like if the Vikings/Jaguars played the Packers/Dolphins in a South Dakota stadium (we have high school stadiums and two large college stadiums with one being a dome)...I guarantee you it would be a sell out. Again, keep the stadiums small but half the league would be really successful. I guarantee a game in some Wisconsin town would be sold out too as long as the day is nice.

Now a Lions/Texans team maybe wouldn't be as successful, but I still think if you have two games in a small stadium in a state once a year....your die-hards will show up.

Maybe not even have a home stadium. Play a game in every contiguous state. 8 games a week. 48 states. 6 weeks. Every team plays in every state every 8 years. Lease a stadium in each state.

I think you need to have thought in where you place games though. Packers games, well the Packers a bad example because they would sell out anywhere....but Vikings games will do A LOT better in Sioux Falls or Mankato than it would in Kentucky. An LA Rams/Vegas Raiders team would do poorly in Wisconsin because nobody cares about the Rams/Raiders in WI.

But traveling the games to different stadiums in a "fan region"...I absolutely love that. Like have Mankato, Fargo, Sioux Falls, De Moines host a Vikings game. Witchita, Omaha, etc. host a Chiefs game. Cheyenne and Ogden Utah host a Broncos game. Packers play in LaCross, Madison, Eau Claire, Dubuqe. And yes get creative with the stadiums. The only thing you really need to consider is artificial turf and indoors if it's too miserable outside.

I have always wanted this type of model. Bring cheap NFL football to the fans. I think there would be good demand for families to go to a game where traffic isn't terrible, tickets are cheap and kids have a great chance at getting autographs.

Yoop wrote: ↑

28 Jun 2022 17:02

does it matter where these young wannabe's play, and why is it exactly that americans watch them play, lets face it we don't even watch our own PS games, let Europeans watch em, seriously why should we have to give Europe our prime talent, I hate that we are playing league games over there, sorry Sal, but adding another game shouldn't necessitate that it's played across the pond.

go pak go wrote: ↑

28 Jun 2022 18:09

Yoop wrote: ↑

28 Jun 2022 17:02

does it matter where these young wannabe's play, and why is it exactly that americans watch them play, lets face it we don't even watch our own PS games, let Europeans watch em, seriously why should we have to give Europe our prime talent, I hate that we are playing league games over there, sorry Sal, but adding another game shouldn't necessitate that it's played across the pond.

Europe has nothing to do with the development league conversation.

NFL Europe league hasn't been in existence for 15 years.

Crazylegs Starks wrote: ↑

28 Jun 2022 13:02

NFL revenue was about $15 billion in 2019 (~$18 billion in 2021?) so unless their net is terrible, they should be able to easily cover a D-league - or you know, maybe new stadiums so taxpayers don't have to foot the bill...

lupedafiasco wrote: ↑

28 Jun 2022 18:42

Crazylegs Starks wrote: ↑

28 Jun 2022 13:02

NFL revenue was about $15 billion in 2019 (~$18 billion in 2021?) so unless their net is terrible, they should be able to easily cover a D-league - or you know, maybe new stadiums so taxpayers don't have to foot the bill...

Why would they pay for it when they dont have to?

Crazylegs Starks wrote: ↑

28 Jun 2022 19:15

lupedafiasco wrote: ↑

28 Jun 2022 18:42

Crazylegs Starks wrote: ↑

28 Jun 2022 13:02

NFL revenue was about $15 billion in 2019 (~$18 billion in 2021?) so unless their net is terrible, they should be able to easily cover a D-league - or you know, maybe new stadiums so taxpayers don't have to foot the bill...

Why would they pay for it when they dont have to?

Exactly, although I can see a time coming when public sentiment turns against them

Crazylegs Starks wrote: ↑

28 Jun 2022 19:15

lupedafiasco wrote: ↑

28 Jun 2022 18:42

Crazylegs Starks wrote: ↑

28 Jun 2022 13:02

NFL revenue was about $15 billion in 2019 (~$18 billion in 2021?) so unless their net is terrible, they should be able to easily cover a D-league - or you know, maybe new stadiums so taxpayers don't have to foot the bill...

Why would they pay for it when they dont have to?

Exactly, although I can see a time coming when public sentiment turns against them

Will the Packers unseat the Bears as the NFL's all-time winningest team?

The Bears and Packers comprise the NFL's oldest rivalry, and the Packers have a chance to finally unseat the Bears as the NFL's winningest team in 2022. The Bears franchise has concluded each of the first 102 seasons of NFL football as the all-time leader in regular-season wins by any team. The 1920 Decatur Staleys won a league-best 10 games, relocated to Chicago for a championship-winning season in 1921, then were renamed the Bears in 1922.

Seventy years later, Chicago entered the 1992 season with 85 more wins (561) than the Packers and Giants (tied for second with 476 wins each). However, 30 seasons of Hall of Fame quarterback play have allowed the Packers (782) to close the gap on the Bears (783) to one win entering the 2022 season.

With a win (at Vikings) and Bears loss (vs. 49ers) in Week 1, the Packers could tie their division rivals and add a compelling subplot to the Week 2 Sunday Night Football Bears at Packers matchup.

salmar80 wrote: ↑

09 Jul 2022 05:03

Let's do it...

https://www.nfl.com/news/2022-nfl-seaso ... -be-reache

Will the Packers unseat the Bears as the NFL's all-time winningest team?

The Bears and Packers comprise the NFL's oldest rivalry, and the Packers have a chance to finally unseat the Bears as the NFL's winningest team in 2022. The Bears franchise has concluded each of the first 102 seasons of NFL football as the all-time leader in regular-season wins by any team. The 1920 Decatur Staleys won a league-best 10 games, relocated to Chicago for a championship-winning season in 1921, then were renamed the Bears in 1922.

Seventy years later, Chicago entered the 1992 season with 85 more wins (561) than the Packers and Giants (tied for second with 476 wins each). However, 30 seasons of Hall of Fame quarterback play have allowed the Packers (782) to close the gap on the Bears (783) to one win entering the 2022 season.

With a win (at Vikings) and Bears loss (vs. 49ers) in Week 1, the Packers could tie their division rivals and add a compelling subplot to the Week 2 Sunday Night Football Bears at Packers matchup.

BF004 wrote: ↑

18 Jul 2022 22:24

How’s that new job at Madden treating you, @TheSkeptic