Peter King: 50/50 Bucs Play In Germany In 2022
February 21st, 2022
Save room for sauerbraten, schnitzel, strudel and plenty of good draft bier. The Bucs may make NFL history in Germany this fall.
Perhaps the most well-connected scribe in the NFL media industry, crossword-puzzle-puzzled, Elon-Musk-peeved, Barstool-Sports-triggered, almond-milk-sipping, hot-dog-eating-contest-protesting, mock-draft-scowling, L.L.-Bean-wearing, tennis fans’ advocate, Second Amendment abolitionist, Mike-Florio-arguing, parrot-insensitive, chewing-with-his-mouth-open, soup-gulping, California-train-romancing, anti-football proliferation, outhouse-admiring, airline-napping, steerage-flying, Yogi Berra-worshiping, urinal-picture-taking, video-game-playing, Taylor-Swift-listening, pickpocket-thwarting, Bucs-uniform-frowning, Allie-LaForce-smitten, Big-Ten-Network-hating, pedestrian-bumping, olive oil-lapping, popcorn-munching, coffee-slurping, fried-chicken-eating, oatmeal-loving, circle-jerking, craft-beer-chugging, cricket-watching, scone-loathing, college football-naïve, baseball-box-score-reading, NPR-honk, filthy-hotel-staying, fight-instigating, barista-training, Budweiser-tolerant, baseball-scorecard-keeping, pasta-feasting, vomit-dodging scrooge, Kay-Adams-following, Coors-Light-souring, pineapple-upside-down-cake-eating social activist and NFL insider Peter King of NBC Sports fame reasons this morning in his “Football Morning in America” column that four NFL teams are expected to have a home game in Germany over the next four years.
The NFL will play a game in Germany each of the next four seasons.
And per King’s math and a little educated guesswork, he believes there is a very good chance the Bucs will have a home game in Germany in 2022.
2. I think if you’re an NFL fan and live in Germany, you’re likely to see Patrick Mahomes play in your country in either 2023 or 2025. Roger Goodell announced that four games will be played in Germany in the next four seasons, two in Munich and two in Frankfurt. In December, four teams were awarded marketing rights to the German market by the NFL: Kansas City, New England, Carolina and Tampa Bay. Two AFC, two NFC. It’s logical to think that the NFL will give each of those teams one game in Germany over the first four years of the marketing-rights deal. Because NFC teams have nine home games in 2022 and ’24, look for Tampa Bay and Carolina to play the “home” games in those years, while Kansas City and New England, with nine home games in 2023 and 2025, could play a game in Germany in those years. The ’22 game was set up perfectly, with Tom Brady slated to lead the Bucs into Germany. But his retirement means the NFL will likely have to find the best “host” of two teams with questionable QB situations, Bucs and Panthers, to kick off the Germany experiment this fall.
3. I think my guess would be the Bucs in Munich this fall, even without Brady. Tampa’s a bigger sell for the NFL than the Panthers are right now: The Super Bowl LV champs, trying to get back to the big game with a new quarterback.
Joe thought it was a shoo-in the Bucs would host a game in Germany first because who better to market the NFL better than the league’s best-known international superstar, Brady? When Brady retired (?), Joe thought that the Bucs playing in Germany this fall went out the door.
Now it seems, per King, the Bucs are back on the front burner to play in Germany.
Joe’s going to have to break down and get a passport.
Prost!
February 21st, 2022 at 5:25 am
Why do those overseas games that the Glazers love so much always screw us out of our home games???
February 21st, 2022 at 6:30 am
There is absolutely no reason that an international game needs to be a ‘home’ game for either team. The idea that it can’t be an away game for both teams is ridiculous and unfair.
Start w the premise that each team gets at least 8 or nine home games. And from there the away game issue becomes moot.
Look, Roger, I solved it for you. Can I have 500million now? I’m better at your job than you are.
February 21st, 2022 at 6:43 am
Sheesten fista
February 21st, 2022 at 7:25 am
Make the Europe game the extra game (17 games) with it not being a home game for either team.
Gisele was born in Brazil, but her parents are of German descent. Perhaps Brady will come back so he can play live in front of Giselle’s extended family.
February 21st, 2022 at 8:19 am
Ah… Brotwurscht, Weiswurst, Bologna, some good hard rolls, Spaetzle, Schnitzel with Mushroom gravy and Apfelstrudel for dessert . And some good Bier to wash it down. I’m ready for a dinner feast, with a game of football. If we could all go there and enjoy it on the corporate tab, like Joe. But we will just have to do what we can.
February 21st, 2022 at 9:27 am
I imagine this is going to happen since the Bucs aren’t charging season ticket holders an extra game this year.
We’ll lose. This team has never played well overseas and we got QB problems.
February 21st, 2022 at 9:28 am
Germany > UK
February 21st, 2022 at 9:29 am
Send someone else. The Bucs don’t fare well across the pond.
February 21st, 2022 at 9:42 am
“Corporate tab” comes straight out of Joe’s pocket. 🙁
February 21st, 2022 at 9:48 am
Well Joe.. at least it is a tax deductable business expense.😎
February 21st, 2022 at 9:51 am
Joe.. just don’t pay for Ira’s trip… I’d imagine the Munich Hofbrauhaus tab would be a killer.
February 21st, 2022 at 9:54 am
We have played in Europe in the past but I am unsure how many times. I do not recall us ever winning in those games.
February 21st, 2022 at 10:04 am
LOL Ira has a thing for sauerkraut. He’s always trying to push Joe to eat the Rueben at Big Storm Brewing in Odessa. Joe likes sauerkraut but let’s just say he can’t eat it and be out in public if you get Joe’s drift. 🙁
(Full disclosure: Neither of the Joes went to any of the London games.)
February 21st, 2022 at 11:26 am
When I had my 1st beer in Germany during my military days, I felt it instantly. Twice as strong as ours and tastier too ! They make great suds over there.
February 21st, 2022 at 12:43 pm
They need to stop all this garbage with these games overseas. I’m waiting for them to take all the games away from fans & have all the teams play there from now on.
February 21st, 2022 at 1:51 pm
Joe’s convinced by 2050 (Joe won’t likely be around to see it), there will be multiple NFL teams in Europe.
There is a reason leagues (not just the NFL) play games on foreign soil. There’s billions of dollars in them thar hills.
February 21st, 2022 at 4:26 pm
Boooooooooooooooooooooo
NFL continues to put profits over the quality of their actual product. The foreign games ALWAYS suck!
February 21st, 2022 at 4:56 pm
But then dollars raked in by the NFL doesn’t suck. 🤷♂️
February 21st, 2022 at 7:32 pm
I am with Tim, the Bucs will gladly give up a home game to play in Germany but why do they never go overseas to play as the away team? They have played in the UK 3 times as the home team but never as the away…….
I looked at the wiki for the NFL international series and the only teams to play more home games in the UK or Mexico without any away games are : the Rams (4 in the UK one as St Louis, 3 as LA), the Raiders (3 in the UK and 2 in Mexico), and of course the Jags (8 in London). Next year the Saints and the Jags are the home teams for the 2 UK teams. On the other side, fan faves like the Cowboys have played only once as a visiting team in London and the Pats as the road team twice in the UK and once in Mexico. Politics and the ability to sell out at home definitely affect who gets jammed out of home games and who does not…….
February 21st, 2022 at 10:33 pm
RayJay 1122, Bucs have never won in London, they lost twice under Rah to the Pats and Bears and also lost there to Carolina in Arians first year where Winston threw 5 picks and was sacked close to 10 teams. Bucs were never prepared to play in UK and thus always got boat raced.
February 21st, 2022 at 11:57 pm
Besser zu Hause, aber if die Buccaneers und ihre Fans reisen musst, dann Deutschland ein ausgezeichnetes Ziel ist.
February 22nd, 2022 at 12:00 am
Und die Pferdegesichte ist schon beliebt in Deutschland, hoffentlich kommt sie mit ihrer untergeordnet.