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NFL owners approve international games during regular season
By BRETT MARTEL
AP Sports Writer
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Two NFL regular-season games will be played each year outside the United States in Mexico, Canada and Europe, starting in 2007.
The plan, first announced last month, was approved Tuesday at the recommendation of new commissioner Roger Goodell.
No specific sites were given for the games. But when the proposal originally was disclosed, the league suggested that Britain and Germany likely would host the European games.
The plan would be set up so that teams would rotate over a 16-year period, with each team playing outside the country twice over that span, once as a visitor, the other as a home team. That means a team would lose one home team during that span.
Losing the home-game revenue was the main objection raised by some teams.
"We're going to get compensated," said Pat Bowlen, owner of the Denver Broncos. "Obviously the league's going to work out the economics and if we lose a home game, we'll get compensated."
WHO'S GONNA COMPENSATE THE FANS YOU IDIOTS?????
By BRETT MARTEL
AP Sports Writer
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Two NFL regular-season games will be played each year outside the United States in Mexico, Canada and Europe, starting in 2007.
The plan, first announced last month, was approved Tuesday at the recommendation of new commissioner Roger Goodell.
No specific sites were given for the games. But when the proposal originally was disclosed, the league suggested that Britain and Germany likely would host the European games.
The plan would be set up so that teams would rotate over a 16-year period, with each team playing outside the country twice over that span, once as a visitor, the other as a home team. That means a team would lose one home team during that span.
Losing the home-game revenue was the main objection raised by some teams.
"We're going to get compensated," said Pat Bowlen, owner of the Denver Broncos. "Obviously the league's going to work out the economics and if we lose a home game, we'll get compensated."
WHO'S GONNA COMPENSATE THE FANS YOU IDIOTS?????
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