(July 13, 2014 at 6:10 pm)Polaris Wrote:(July 13, 2014 at 6:07 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I predict in another 4 years, just like the Olympics, some other sucker of a global city will waste money building crap when it could be used to improve real issues like poverty and pollution.
Hopefully Russia doesn't do so in the cities where chemical waste has reduced the life expectancy to the mid 40s.
(July 13, 2014 at 6:09 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: How do you figure?
NFL teams defunct starting in the early 1990s. These were the teams the NFL used to expand into new venues, but failed at gaining interest. The latter teams ended up draining the NFL of 30 million every year.
Birmingham Fire
Sacramento Surge
San Antonio Riders
New York/New Jersey Knights
Montreal Machine
Orlando Thunder
Raleigh–Durham Skyhawks
Ohio Glory
Amsterdam Admirals
Barcelona Dragons
Berlin Thunder
Cologne Centurions
Frankfurt Galaxy
Hamburg Sea Devils
London Monarchs
Rhein Fire
Scottish Claymores
That was not the NFL that was the NFL's farm league called NFL Europe. The players in that league wanted to end up in the American NFL. Safety and travel issues and lack of interest in Europe killed it.
