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NFL Europa, RIP: 1991 - 2007

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This past week, the football world was stunned by the NFL’s decision to shut down NFL Europe. I personally wept for seconds, then continued to eat my cheeseburger…

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Ironically, the league had finally gotten a decent following, with nearly 50,000 fans attending last week’s World Bowl championship in Frankfurt. Granted, 5 out of the 6 teams were based in Germany (stunning surprise that a country famous for sausage & beer would get hooked on the pigskin. It’s like they were the NFC Central with Lederhosen…).

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Anyways, this basically means that the NFL JV squad (i.e. scrubs) will now have to choose between freezing their butts off in Canada, or slamming them into the side of a hockey rink, if John Elway gets his way…

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die Entsetzen!

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