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Stade France seats over 80,000 for soccer, so yes. Not sure if France is a priority for her NFL right now, but if expansion to Europe is ever going to be a thing, that's one market worth testing.

If you want to go all in on the French connection, have New Orleans play Detroit in Paris.

(06-26-2023 10:28 PM)chargeradio Wrote:  Stade France seats over 80,000 for soccer, so yes. Not sure if France is a priority for her NFL right now, but if expansion to Europe is ever going to be a thing, that's one market worth testing.

If you want to go all in on the French connection, have New Orleans play Detroit in Paris.

How does Detroit have a French connection?

(06-26-2023 10:30 PM)andybible1995 Wrote:  

(06-26-2023 10:28 PM)chargeradio Wrote:  Stade France seats over 80,000 for soccer, so yes. Not sure if France is a priority for her NFL right now, but if expansion to Europe is ever going to be a thing, that's one market worth testing.

If you want to go all in on the French connection, have New Orleans play Detroit in Paris.

How does Detroit have a French connection?

It was founded as a French settlement.

Excerpt:

Quote:The site that was to become the city of Detroit was established on July

24, 1701 by Antoine de la mothe Cadillac, a French military leader and trader. Cadillac had traveled widely in New France and the western Great Lakes and was the commander of Fort Michilimackinac at the junction of Lakes Huron and Michigan.

In 1698, Cadillac returned to France to petition King Louis XIV for authorization to establish a French outpost along “le détroit” (the strait), the waterway connecting Lakes Erie and Huron. In 1700, Cadillac successfully persuaded the king’s minister of marine, Jérôme Phélypeaux Comte de Pontchartrain, to authorize an expedition to establish not a post, but a settlement. Cadillac hoped to forestall British attempts to occupy a nearby area, as well as start a colony that could survive on the rich soil and fur trapping opportunities of the region.

Cadillac’s entourage of soldiers, missionaries and colonists set out from Montreal on June 5, 1701. The expedition traveled by way of the Ottawa River, through Lake Nipissing, out down French River into Georgian Bay, Lake Huron, St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair, and finally the Detroit River, stopping for the night on Grosse Ile on July 23rd.[/quote]

And has a French name.

Detroit has a very unique past. Too bad everyone only knows it for the wrong reasons. I'm willing to bet the NFL will eventually make its way into Paris. A Lions/Saints game would sell out instantly.

St. Louis would be an even better choice as an opponent if they still had a team, for the name alone. The Rams and Saints had a decent division rivalry for a few years in the early 00s too.