Wembley Power

The International Series Returns in October but you already knew that so why am I telling you stuff you already know?. Looking at past Wembley games and results as I don't have a ticket or much else going on I got to thinking......

I went to the first game in 07 I think it was where the giants claimed a dull victory over the dolphins in a game where the only TD was ran in by giants two time superbowl king Eli Manning and my first reaction was to laugh. On the Back of the wembley game the giants went on to win the superbowl whilst the dolphins almost completed a perfect season of 0s but managed to pick up a win just before the regular season ended.

So the point i'm getting too is the Saints played at wembley and won the Superbowl also. The Buccs last season were doing well until they played at wembly and like the dolphins struggled for a W since. I'm a big fan of Josh Freeman and think they'll do well this season.

It seems however the winning team at wembley tends to go on to have a good season and more often than not make it to the post season and the losing team struggle to find form when they get home. So is wembley becoming a major part of the NFL calendar? still alot of teams say "wembley? no thanks, let the Rams do it" as no-one will really notice they've gone. Sorry Rams fans ;) I'm just messing.

So we are all aware that the Rams have taken up the next 3 years of international games, I like the Rams they have a cool helmet. This year we see Tom Brady and the Pats return to wembley which should be cool and maybe a win over the Rams will see Brady reach another Superbowl and choke again.

There are talks of a possible second International game heading our way with Glasgow being a prime target but my problem is, if the NFL teams aren't exactly lining up to play at wembley how do they plan to exercise two international games a season?.

Don't get me wrong as a UK fan this is great news and as glasgow if about 3 hours closer to me that's even better. NFL UK top cats are even planning on getting a franchise in London in 10 years, that makes me laugh we couldn't even hack it in NFL Europe.