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Screw London....
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They would have a serious issue getting free agents. It would be tough to convince a player and his family to move to a different country.
Move Miami into the AFC South and Jacksonville/London into the AFC East. Make the Patriots, one of the MAJOR proponents of the International move, have to travel to London every year.
NYJ, Buf and NE would be the "closest" to London of any three other NFL teams currently in one division.
I don’t know. I’ve visited London twice in my life and it is an absolutely awesome city. One of the best cities in the world. I’d live there in a heartbeat.
I think the problem is football would be a marginal sport there. London is very cosmopolitan, there are thousands for French speakers, Indians, Arabs living there. Huge numbers of people who don’t give a rat’s behind about football and never will. None of the players will be local. When was the last time an English player even started in the NFL? Nothing for the local lads to root for.
It won’t work. It will last 5 years and then the Jags will move to St. Louis.
I was thinking the same thing, then I did the math. I used online calculators of combined State and Local taxes (I used New York State, because that is one of the higher ones and because they would probably have the Jets in their new division.) and a UK income tax calculator. I also used "single" because I would guess that slightly more NFL players are single than married.
I used the following yearly salaries:
NFL Minimum: $480,000
Yearly of $1.5 Million
Yearly of $10 million
NY State and combined Federal taxes, take-home pay:
$480K > $287K
$1.5M > $800K
$10M > $5.38M
UK Taxes: (all converted to pounds and back to dollars)
$480K > $216K
$1.5M > $809K
$10M > $5.31M
So, actually, not a massive difference in taxes, plus, you have to consider that half their games would be in the USA and the USA would tax them, and they would also get a credit for taxes paid in the UK.
All in all, taxes would be close to a wash for most players. (I know Florida has no income tax, so the Jags would get hit, but most states do have income taxes, though not as high as NY.)
You still have to pay federal income tax on foreign income. Playing in London 8 games doesn't get them off the hook for that. They'd be getting double taxed.
I told the company the next day when I went on the site visit, and they laughed and said that the receptionist that took my info was hard of hearing.like this was someone from your company just fooling around or someone from the hotel made a goof?
either ways it's pretty dang funny
The NFL just loves to make a simple kids game all kinds of complex.
I understand that NFL is dying in the US
I told the company the next day when I went on the site visit, and they laughed and said that the receptionist that took my info was hard of hearing.
Either way, Tampa isn’t a bad town, and it has some good food.