NFL pulls the plug on European league

[oberliner]

BERLIN (AFP) - NFL Europa, the European development league for American football, has folded after 15 seasons with US National Football League owners disbanding the six-team circuit after heavy financial losses.

"Together with the management of NFL Europa, we have decided that cancelling the NFL Europa games is the best business decision," NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said.

"From now on, we will concentrate on regular-season games and use new technology to make the NFL more popular worldwide."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070629/sp_afp/amfootnfleurope;_ylt=Akz3SLwy9Sz7C90qC6mZtoys0NUE

[HereSince1628]

1. Reality strikes--you can't outsource NFL labor like you can Baseball

and Basketball.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Most of the players were American

It was somewhere those who didn't quite get a contract from an NFL team went. Various NFL players have had a year or 2 in NFL Europe, until a regular team took a second look at them. Take a look at a sample list of players.

[Doc_Technical]

2. Bring back the United States Football League.

A spring/summer NFL farm league which delivers

year 'round football for us gridiron junkies!

[Blue_Tires]

4. well that is a shame....

just a few weeks before that NFL preseason game in London, no less