PFT explores thoughts of how an NFL putting an entire division in Europe might have some issues and some possibly fixes to some of issues.

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/nflpa-ponders-eventual-nfl-push-for-european-division


Sounds like back to back road games in Europe are likely which the Vikings are the guinea for this year.

Not sure if they take four current teams and move them to Europe or if they create four brand new teams and put them in Europe (which as PFT points out, could give the 32 current owners 40 billion dollars or more to split).


I was trying to think if they did expand to 36 teams, how they would they split the divisions up and create a schedule. I was thinking 2 conferences with 3 division of 6 teams each. But they would totally kill the whole division winner thing.

And not sure how that works into an 18 game schedule, play your division twice (10 games), but no way to nicely split up the remaining 8.

If they kept it at 17 games each, then you could play all the teams in your conference once. But then divisions would be pointless.

But I do like their idea on how to limit the West Coast to Europe trips and vice versa, by putting the West Coast teams in one conference and the European teams in the other Conference.



I'm just not seeing any pretty way to do equal conferences, divisions, schedule with 36 teams. So I think the better way, would be to move 4 of the current teams.


This is supposedly the value of the Franchises at the start of the 2024 season.

1) Dallas Cowboys, $10.32 billion
2) Los Angeles Rams, $7.79 billion
3) New York Giants, $7.65 billion
4) New England Patriots, $7.31 billion

5) San Francisco 49ers, $6.86 billion
6) New York Jets, $6.8 billion
7) Miami Dolphins, $6.76 billion
8) Philadelphia Eagles, $6.75 billion

9) Las Vegas Raiders, $6.7 billion
10) Washington Commanders, $6.3 billion
11) Chicago Bears, $6.26 billion
12) Houston Texans, $6.01 billion

13) Atlanta Falcons, $5.9 billion
14) Seattle Seahawks, $5.59 billion
15) Pittsburgh Steelers, $5.55 billion
16) Tampa Bay Buccaneers, $5.5 billion

17) Denver Broncos, $5.49 billion
18) Kansas City Chiefs, $5.43 billion
19) Green Bay Packers, $5.39 billion
20) Minnesota Vikings, $5.32 billion

21) Tennessee Titans, $5.29 billion
22) Los Angeles Chargers, $5.22 billion
23) Cleveland Browns, $5.14 billion
24) Carolina Panthers, $5.13 billion

25) Baltimore Ravens, $5.12 billion
26) Buffalo Bills, $5.08 billion
27) Indianapolis Colts, $4.99 billion
28) Detroit Lions, $4.93 billion

29) Arizona Cardinals, $4.85 billion
30) New Orleans Saints, $4.79 billion
31) Jacksonville Jaguars, $4.76 billion
32) Cincinnati Bengals, $4.71 billion.


If I had to move 4 teams or so to Europe, I'd be looking at

1) Jaguars (Their Owner seems to want London)

2) Panthers (Their Owner just pissi g every off and seems to want a bigger area than Charlotte)

3) Browns or Bengals (Their ownerships want to stay, but two poorly run orange teams right next two each other has always seemed poor to me, of course while the Browns have sucked, they keep bringing in more fans than the Bengals.

4) Cardinals, their owner sucks and based on allegations is extremely verbally abusive, and maybe I'm wrong, but while Arizona has a good sized media market, I just haven't gotten the feeling that they care about pro football all that much in that area.

5) Titans (I strongly doubt their owners want to move, but they just aren't bringing in the fans compared to other teams... though they are beating the Jaguars, but that's not saying much).

6) Chargers, their owner wants to go back to San Diego, but San Diego isn't overly interested in them back... and the NFL surely would like to keep two teams in Los Angeles, but they simply aren't competing well in the market right now.