Pat McAfee Says That NFL Players HATE The International NFL Games 

As an English NFL fan, keep 'em coming. We have to watch games at 2/3am every week, so 3 9am games PER SEASON is more than fine.

When I lived in Hawaii I LOVED the NFL "schedule". I woke up to football, and when the games were over, I still had the evening. Its weird at first obviously, but when you think about how the entire day is football AND THEN you can be productive later, it was the best

The reason there are Browns fans in the UK is because we love an underdog and the Browns have been underdogs for a very long time. I was a Browns fan for that very reason.

I can tell you as a rugby player going on world tours was a highlight. Toured USA, New Zealand, UK. Highlight of my time playing. (International travel is a key part of rugby. From school and local teams to top tier national teams).

The Concorde stopped flying due to safety regulations, emissions, and most importantly…. Cost. It was WAY too expensive to operate, and it could only fly trans-Atlantic flights because of the sonic boom it created. Most flights were never sold out, and ticket prices were ridiculously expensive. Also, airlines that did own a Concorde had to keep one on standby at NY-LaGuardia, Paris, and London Heathrow, which meant a plane sitting, not making any money. The nail in the coffin was the Air France flight in the early 2000’s that crashed soon after takeoff.

0:39 I loved Pat defending himself. He was like, “Hey…we lost to the *good* Jaguars!” 😂

They absolutely should bring a game to Australia.. the game has grown heaps here in the last 5 or so years.

As a European Packers fan, i'm stoked to see Rodgers in person this year!

The first Concord crash happened because another airline was too cheap to do regular repairs on their aircraft. That plane took off ahead of the Concord and a strip of metal that was used in a shoddy repair fell onto the runway. The Concord then traveled down the runway and ran over the piece of metal, which caused a tire to burst. Pieces of the tire hit the underside of the wing, which was full of fuel, causing shockwaves in the fuel tank which in turn caused rivets to pop and the leaking fuel caught fire. It was too late to stop takeoff, and the plane crashed into an airport motel. It had absolutely nothing to do with the safety of the Concord aircraft.

Definitely do a show the night before a London game. Loads of fans of yours in the Uk!

As an English guy moving to the US I can't wait to see more games in person. Also, jet lag coming to Europe from the US sucks, you lose a night's sleep. Going to the US from Europe is way easier, just stay awake a few hours longer.

The Seahawks are crossing so many time zones good god

I really hope that we can have an NFL game in Canada.

I remember walking around near Wembley no where near football season. Some dude was wearing a tim Tebow jets jersey

As a Premier League fan, I love the England games

Fan from Germany here and I absolutly love the international games! Of course, it is hard for Players, Coaches and everyone involved. I think, the game as a whole is and will benefit from these international games.

As a Chelsea FC fan from the USA, I definitely didn’t mind watching the morning matches. Well, maybe except the 6 am ones 🤣 so more the merrier

As a UK fan we love the UK games. Times have changed and we can watch Game pass etc now but nothing beats live. I will go to at least 1 game a year in my Bengals jersey (Been a fan 40 years) this will be the first time for a while where I can wear it with pride and not a paper bag on my head! Who Dey

Flew from Toronto to England for the Saints and Dolphins game at Wembley a few years ago. It was absolutely electric!! Spent the weekend in London and it was one of the greatest times of my life. Went to a Saints bar the night before downtown and met some players' family. Such a unique experience I am going to try and get back there this season! I highly recommend it as a fan.

As a UK fan would love to see a Pat McAfee theatre show over here

I've been to 7 or 8 of the London NFL games now and it's amazing. At the start, it was like 95% of crowds were just NFL fans, happy to watch a game regardless of the teams and if was a party atmosphere. Where as the last few years there does seem to be more fan bases. Like I went to NYJ vs ATL last season, and there were a hell of a lot of falcons and jets groups

Because of the long ass flight

I'm a colts fan from England, and I can completely understand how impractical t is for the players to come over here and play, but Its amazing to watch them irl. Also as an aviation nut, just have to touch on concorde, the main reason for its demise was the air France crash in 2000, it revealed major flaws with the design, however even if that hadn't happened, it just wasn't cost effective. The running costs were so high that it was almost impossible to make a profit. Sad to see such a beautiful aircraft not fly.

I'm an English fan of the NFL and I love the international games, we always try to spot all 32 Jerseys on the day. I travel from Yorkshire which is 4 hours away to the games and love every minute

There should be a full week of all nfl teams doing an international game & just call it international week possibly giving them a bye week after 2 bye weeks for the season

They absolutely LOVE the Raiders in the UK and Germany.

Dear Pat let me explain something to you there has always been a large Pats fan base over here not just because of TB12, but the England in their name and John Smith of " Snow plow game in 82 " was English. I have been a life long British Hawks fan since visiting my aunt in Vancouver when I was a kid. Fortunately they started showing the NFL on TV, over here on in 82 and in 87 I saw my first live game the 49ers vs Dolphins. It was a privilege to see Montana, Young, Rice , Lott, Walsh ( I didn't HATE the 49ers then like I do now) Marino , and Shula. I still have the match day programme, the thing I remember the most was just before the game started Ronnie Lott walking to the endzone where I was sitting and touching all 4 pylons everyone was in awe of the great man. I'm in my 50's now and seen the growth of the game way beyond anything I could imagine back in the early days . In London you will always see fans every team from the Cowboys to the Browns, Jags, Jets and Lions. For over 30 years I never saw another Hawks fan in London now I see them all the time. In 2018, I saw the Hawks play live it was a lifelong dream I never thought would happen. I literally cried when I got my ticket. My seat was right behind the Hawks bench, and had a close up view of the team. It was the 3rd greatest Hawks moment of my life the 2nd being winning the SB and number 1 Paul Allen, buying the team. So yeah , I love International games, and long may they continue. Go Hawks

Do your show in Munich and I'll try my hardest to be there!

I was against international games because jet lag. Then I learned that some of the soccer leagues actually travel more than that and they operate just fine. Football to the world.

Not all of them. It's the International Interests that have provided BILLIONS in NFL REVENUE.

Us fans love it! Best was a few of years ago when the jags players got super drunk at a bar, refused to pay and had a fight with the bouncers lol was fun seeing them take the pitch after that 🤣

I’m also not a fan of 9am games

As as Australian NFL fan, we would definitely fill out a stadium!!

a team in england would only work if they played their road games a month at a time. ie. sept road, octber home, nov road, dec home.

The Concords also were getting old, were quite loud (so people who lived near their airports hated them), and I you have to think weren't turning a good profit at the end..

As a team, I'd imagine it's a logistical nightmare. You gotta take all the players and the staff and all that damn equipment across the ocean.

As an Australian who has travelled to the USA many times to watch hockey, football and baseball, the travel time and jet lag are an absolute pain in the ass and don't blame the players at all if they don't like it. That being said, we would sell out stadiums for NFL games. The college football and MLB games that came out were extremely popular.

Can't wait for the Cardinals to go back to Mexico! We had the very first international game and we are headed back! Staying in the same time zone, so not much of an issue in terms of jet lag and sleep and all that

It always cracks me up when they talk about they want to put a team in London You know how pissed guys would be being drafted to a team in London. Then every time someone travels there it’s a long ass fight and time change. Just never gonna be a good option That being said as a fan I definitely don’t mind the 9am games sometimes

The way I see it, players, coaches, etc get paid on the range of hundreds of thousands to generally millions of dollars a year to play the game. They can take 1 or 2 weeks of relatively slight inconvenience to playing an international game, even more so for games played in Mexico since there is no time change. I think we should get teams in Canada like NHL does.

It’s so interesting to learn how there’s fans from so many countries I had no idea had NFL fans in them. Much love to the international NFL community and I can’t wait for more international fans to get to experience their first game in person some time down the road!

Lived in London during the 2013-2014 season, there were events all weekend for these games and players were taking stage pumping up crowds etc

As a German, we love it, though! Sooo many football fans here. We miss NFL Europe a lot!

We need more nfl games in Canada 🇨🇦!!! It would make sense since football and sports are huge here

To be clear, Concorde stopped because of low ticket sales, the two crashes that happened early in infancy was the Tupolev supersonic jet.

"Hooligans are the best fans" yeah well some people might have alternative opinions about that xD

I spent 8 years working in the NFL. Pretty much everybody hates international games. However, there are a handful of teams that have actually taken serious consideration into international relocation.

Pat has to bring the show over!!!!

As someone who's worked and traveled around the world, I've met many ppl from different countries who represent American teams. Like I've seen ppl in different places rocking an old English D Detroit Tigers (my team) cap. If you talk to them, they either lived there for a bit, or have a friend there, or have some kind of connection to the state/city. That's pretty cool. Right now I work with a local in Iraq who wears a Cowboys Jason Witten jersey.

I have been a fan of the NFL for more than 30 years and I am very excited for the game in Mexico, I have not missed any in Mexico City, I live two blocks from the Azteca Stadium.

Many Browns fans in UK for 2 reasons: 1. NFL was shown in the late 80s in the UK when the Browns were the Kardiac Kids. 2. EFL is dominated by money buying success and so often new NFL fans would pick the worst team due to the draft process and shared revenues levelling the playing field.

If you did a live show in London I would definitely come watch! Then beers afterwards!

Super sonic planes are coming back like the Concorde

Pat would be shocked to know that the Cleveland Browns have the largest worldwide backing organization in ALL American professional sports. Fact!

As and English fan I love the games being over here. Surely for east coast players playing here is no more 'inconvenient' than going to the west coast.

As an NFL fan from the UK I love the games that are played over here, but I fully understand and empathise with American fans and the players and staff from the teams that come over. Home field advantage is a huge thing in any sport, so the drawn NFL home teams have one less game at their stadium which is unfair to the fans. I think the answer to this is simple, do not have any regular season AFC or NFC games over here. I think that the NFL could create an International trophy to play for over here during closed season, it would allow teams to blood their rookies. Obviously the pro bowl is never usually a competitive game, but these international games could be if there was incentive. For instance the winner of the tournament could win a trophy similar to the Vince Lombardi (But smaller), and cash bonus for the players, and extra draft picks. That would give the teams incentive to play in the games, and it would ensure that all 32 teams in the NFL have at least 8 home field games, and it would help the NFL brand to grow. There are 7 months of off season, so why not break it up a bit with the international tournament then ?

A full time team in europe would be just stupid. Going from Europe to the US is not a big deal, but going back is tough. Going from West to east drops the win percentage of teams doing it. And that’s only three hours. Pat talked about how jet lagged he was, can you imagine doing this every second week.

There are a few companies developing new supersonic airliners. Hopefully they'll be successful.

Concorde was a chore for normal passengers. I doubt it could transport a full NFL team in a comfortable fashion if it were still operating that is.

the Concorde planes stopped running b/c maintenance, parts & fuel were too expensive, average ticket fare would be like $2,000 +

There is a company called Boom based in the Denver area that is developing a modern Concorde replacement.

I think probably ought to move to Canada and Mexico before moving to Europe but the broncos play the jags at 7:30am mst and I’m not thrilled about it

As a mexican you guys would play in the same time zone. Crossing the ocean tho is crazy

The Concord flew Supersonic and was getting old, it causes a lot of stress on the plane in the long run, it was retired after 27 years of service, [1976-2003] costing a small fortune to maintain.

Turn half the season into traveling games. Link through England to a few markets and have a week in each region. London for the week, then Berlin, Prague onto an Asian market then end in Australia. Half teams travel for first half of season, then second half travels for last half of season.

Nothing against a team in London but why isn’t the NFL pushing to have a team in Canada and Mexico where it’s logistically much easier while competing with their respective leagues?

There's been a lot of talk about NFL teams starting up in EU. Notradame have been coming to Ireland for years putting on show matches and scouting. We would love you guys to come over and fill up Croke Park. 82k capacity. 3rd largest stadium in Europe. Built for out national amature sports but we like pro money!

I went to a game in Mexico city, Patriots Vs Raiders. Great experience, lot's of fun. A huge economic impact, for the city and the NFL...

Only one Concorde crashed not 2. but but that was one eighth of the fleet. I watch games at 6pm and 9pm live UK time. Perfect for me. Highlights for the rest.

6:00 the concorde accidents were a few years into the life of the aircraft, and the 2nd one was due to runway debris from another plane. it hit a hotel, luckily it was closed at the time.

One main reason about the concorde not coming back was the sonic boom

For the record, there is no Concord anymore because it was SUPER expensive to operate. It would only cost more now. It’s just not worth it for airline companies to run it.

Where is a bad place for the NFL to go? Toronto. Bills couldn't get the SkyDome half filled when they tried.

I kinda love the full day football viewership experience but I get it fom the player experience and jetlag

The logistics of having a full time NFL Team in Europe are too wild. Travel time, taxes, work permits, etc. European governments also aren’t going to put up $800 Million for an owner to build a stadium. But playing a few games a season rotated around different teams could really build a new following for the NFL.

Brown’s Backers are the largest ‘backers’ fan group in the NFL and it’s members span the entire globe.

HOT TAKE! The talent pool is too small for the NFL to expand to Europe. It has the risk to water down the sport. I think it would be better to make a pro farm team league like the XFL or the USFL but call it the EFL. NFL teams could send their practice squad members there to develope. Just an idea.

I have English friends and they buy tickets to every single NFL game they can. They love the game, and are extremely knowledgeable. I kept apologizing one year because we were sending our worst teams, but they didn't care, they still loved every moment. By the way, the comment about having some retired stars going over is a great idea, and I hope the NFL listens and follows through.

I'm guessing the main reason is the travel and scheduling difficulties. It's got to be tough on them

I know it’s American game but you guys are so lucky I wish I lived in America I’m from Australia and football season on Monday morning at 2-3am for games I’ll sleep early and then watch games all night till like 6 if there’s a big game after I’ll watch if not I’ll sleep until I get up for work then watch Sunday football at work living off red bulls but it’s always worth it

NFL players in the Concord would not work. The cabin was very small and it only carried a little over 100 passengers. It only had 2x2 seats, not a good thing for very large players.

Live from Baghdad Arena 😂😂😂

Concorde doesn't run because it's not cost effective. Too much fuel to fly that fast. And not enough passenger room to offset the huge amount of additional fuel.

I know the NFL is trying to expand to Europe but I just think the hours being so off are gonna make it harder for that to happen.

Make all international games mid season or later and give any team facing an international game a bye week before! Plus all expenses paid while they're discovering a new culture

One plane crashed.. they flew for 30 years.. they stopped because it was too expensive and 1st class & business class became really good..

How many videos will Pat make about this topic

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"Yeah because youre winning" lmaoooo

Best thing would be teams having their bye week after a London match more time to acclimatise. Game in Germany. Perfect

Concorde is never coming back because of how expensive the planes were to build and operate. 6,500+ gallons of aviation fuel on one transatlantic flight carrying a maximum of 128 passengers? It just isn't commercially viable. And for the manufacturers, they based their budget around selling 350 of these planes. Only 20 were built and only 14 of them ever flew passengers.

I’m really frustrated as a Saints fan that a London game is on our schedule for ‘22. Our entire team and fans were displaced for 3 weeks last year and multiple home games due to a hurricane last year….why purposely displace us again!!

They should take a page out of the MLB book and make the international games at the beginning of the season, and have them like a week early so that the teams have time to recover.

Come on over to the UK for the Green Bay game.

Yeah I wanna see Pat doin a show in Germany

It amazes me how many TV/Radio personalities aren’t aware of how many service members and family members we have stationed in England and Germany.

Before complaining, NFL players should remember that a good chunk of their salaries comes from overseas. Moreover, players today enjoy a big audience thanks to the players of previous generations who made it possible. Today´s generation must do the same for the next ones by gaining more market internationally.

First off the LED scoreboard is cool as hell.Second the only cities that could have a team Toronto and Mexico City.

The Concorde actually crashed twice but that wasn't the problem. It once crashed during a showflight so not many people died. And the other time it crashed because another plane infront of it had lost one of it's parts on the runway. This cracked the concorde open. The plane was fairly save. The real problem was the cost of a flight for passengers and airlines. But the biggest problem was how loud the airplane was. People on the ground felt annyoed by the noise whenever the concorde was flying wich at the end was the last straw that broke it's neck

FYI Boom Supersonic is working on commercial supersonic planes.