Hoax? Ravens vs Cowboys in Rio

[tsylvester]

Giana Han of The Baltimore Banner reports that the Ravens will be the Cowboys’ opponent in Week 3 in Rio de Janeiro.

Report: Ravens will be the Cowboys' opponent in Rio in 2026 - NBC Sports https://share.google/88bR19sXDCZIRNn5c

 

I hope this is simply an April 1st joke, 

[oldno82]

I gather it's not. I really hate these International games. They should just have a separate league if they want to make money across the globe. Greed is the driving factor in the NFL and as the years tick by it's getting worse and worse.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2026/04/01/ravens-play-cowboys-in-rio-de-janeiro-brazil-in-2026/.

[papasmurfbell]

It’s the only reason the price of these teams keeps growing so fast.  When they expand and they will I figure the buy in is 5 billion plus.

[oldno82]

That's probably spot on.

[tsylvester]

I'm curious to see the schedule, flight times will be an issue, San Fran has a 16 hour flight one way for their game in Australia, heard thr other day they won't get a bye after their game🫩

[papasmurfbell]

Steve bought the team for 600 mil.  The valuation now is about 6.6 billion.   That’s about an 1100% increase in value.  Inflation in that time is about 75%.  The nfl is a good investment.  The only reason is them expanding revenues like crazy.  Thank Jerry for that.  The league learned when Jerry made his own team deals above the league deals.

[oldno82]

So who is going to buy the team from Bisciotti in 5-10 years at those prices? Sure won't be anyone local---nobody with that much money for this area.

[papasmurfbell]

That’s not necessarily true.  Kevin plank, the Arles family, and the learners could all be buyers.

[oldno82]

Plank is 'only' worth about 1.1 billion and the Lerner family does have the money but they also own the Nationals. Don't know the Arles family and couldn't find anything on them.