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Chris Landry on why the NFL is playing more international games. · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Chris. Once the NFL kicks off. We've talked with you about international play
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  before, but the NFL will play the first ever South American contest. The
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  Eagles will take on the Packers. That'll be Friday, September sixth, down
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  in Brazil, and onet of your thoughts on this just a little bit more.
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  You know, we've talked about this before. It's been quite a while
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  ago. We know about the overseas games across the Pond, as they say,
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  you know, in Germany, and they play here there and yonder.
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  The Jags have become a staple overseas. I don't know that the NFL will
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  ever expand to be a quote unquote global you know, front global, you
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  know league, so to speak. Is this more about branding? Is it
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  trying to generate revenue in other places outside of the country, What is the
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  kind of what is the attraction? Is it more than money or is it
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  just simply money to go to Brazil and play for the first time ever,
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  to go over and play in Germany, to play you know, now almost
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  double handful games outside of the United States. It's money driven, and it's
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  tapping into markets where they're not making money. It's almost like, I mean,
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  it's not like they've completely tapped out the money in this country, but
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  think about it. It's it's just there's nowhere to go in this country.
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  I mean, you know, you can think about this. Why did they
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  make over the whole Taylor Swift thing because they were tapping into markets with young
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  girls and women that maybe weren't big football fans that were now buying Travis Kelsey
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  jerseys. Because that's big. They love that, They love playing that up
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  because it's tapping into maybe a new market. Because the football fan is always
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  going to follow it all, what is going to be excited. Well,
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  I can remember I was part of a team in Cleveland with coach Belichick.
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  Well, we played one of the first games overseas in the preseason. We
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  played the Eagles, and I mean, Jick, I can remember this now.
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  Brian Brennan caught this unbelievable touchdown pass and I mean he got both feet
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  in and it was unbelievable and the probably didn't even know what to do,
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  didn't even clap. We lined up and kicked the extra point and they went
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  into a roar. And it's is because they kicked the ball between the upright
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  that's how little they knew about football in Europe. Now it's become bigger and
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  bigger. To why they put money into the World League even though it lost
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  money for years. They finally got out of it and stopped their losses.
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  They're trying to penetrate in all markets in different continents to get money involved.
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  There's some people that believe that eventually we'll get to the point. I don't
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  know about a team there. Maybe that is possibility, but this has been
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  floated out as we go to and we're probably going to go to eighteen games,
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  but there's been some talk about having every team has eight games at home,
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  eight games in a row on the road, and one game outside the
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  country. There's some talk about maybe doing that to where you got more exposure
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  to more teams in different places. All money driven, all money driven,
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  and when you've got you and you're making as much money as the league is,
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  they're trying to find new zero some game, right, so they're trying
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  to find new ways to bring an extra dollar in. Make sure to find
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  them at Landry football dot com. Also an exit Landry Football, Chris,
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  I appreciate your time on a short week this week. Look have a great
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  weekend and we'll do it again next week. Hey, thank you so much.
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  Take care,