The NFL's British fan base has grown rapidly since the international series began at Wembley Stadium in 2007. But the league's head of international business isn't ready to say the NFL is close to putting a team in London full-time. "We'd like to continue to grow our fan base even more aggressively," Chris Parsons, the NFL's senior vice president of international, told Tom Pelissero of USA Today this week. "And whether that's doubling it from where it is today – I'm not entirely sure what the exact number is – I certainly would want us to be even bigger in the UK before we made a move like that, which clearly wouldn't be something that would happen in the near term." The data that we've collected over the past four years really has shown our fan base has grown exponentially," said Parsons, a UK native who grew up listening to NFL games on Armed Forces Radio and has been working with the league for five years. "When we stack ourselves up against sports in the UK, depending on what metric you're looking at, we've gone from well outside the top 10 to now inside the top 10 in terms of fan numbers and in terms of viewing figures." Source: The Redzone
This....I don't know why this is still a topic of discussion anyway. Than again, with Goodell as commissioner, this always will be a topic of discussion some way, some how.
