SmashMouth

Regardless of how the NFL resolves the question of whether to proceed with Monday night’s game of the year in Mexico City, the league has yet another mess of its own making.

Here we are, six days before the Chiefs and Rams will meet in Mexico, and the league engaged in no obvious proactive effort to solve the problem until the pot reached a full, raging boil.

The turf at Aztec Stadium remains a “mess,” but the NFL is “determined” to play the game, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN.

It’s easy to envision a series of hectic meetings and frazzled conference calls during which a variety of arguments are made and considerations are balanced. Here’s hoping that the only factors that ultimately matters are: (1) the safety of the players; and (2) the integrity of the game.



Remember the second one? That was the cover the NFL used to justify whacking the Patriots over a trivial football-inflation issue under a standard that had been on the books for so long that no one knew why it was even there. Taking a little air out of the ball to make it easier to throw (the NFL failed to prove that this ever happened) and thus making the game better is a far cry from forcing two of the best offenses in the NFL to play on a field that looks like the vacant lot in every neighborhood where a house was torn down and a smattering of grass, weeds, rocks, and dirt is now in its place.

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Halo

They don't care about American Football. Stop shoving it in markets people really could care less.

73Saint

Totally agree. They're all about the kwan (coin).

ScottF

cheapest ticket is $110 in the 600's
someone, or 80,000 someones, must care

RailBoss

Mexico loves their Soccer (Futbol). When you mention Football they are thinking Soccer.

Halo

I know the games in London are full of ex-patriots and American workers in England, and tourism for the game. There is an American Football following in Germany, Sweden and few other European countries.

I would imagine the same goes for Mexico city.

Crusader

If you switch few to most that becomes correct.

Halo

Thanks for the info. I knew you would chime in eventually.
I don't have a pulse on American Football in Europe, only what I've read - and some of that I read 10-15 years ago.
Figured you would know the most.

As for Mexico, I still think it's a market the NFL is trying to push its way into.

K Major

Player safety is paramount here.

Postpone if necessary.

SmashMouth

The players should tell Mexico to Pound Sand... I mean Sod?

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...n-mexico-city/