[NA Pro Sports Leagues] Expansion to Mexico - Will it happen?
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AdmiralsFan24
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Not just the political and drug problems down there but if you think the exchange rate between the U.S. and Canadian dollar are bad, don't even look at the exchange rate between the dollar and the peso. That alone will kill any possibility.
Mightygoose
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Major League Baseball is the only one that I can see working. Mexico City's metro is over 21 million so I think there's enough wealth in that population to support one. Commissioner Manfred mentions it from time to time along with Monterrey.
NFL a maybe but I just see neutral site games being played there. Having franchises down there would add nothing to the league IMO.
NFL a maybe but I just see neutral site games being played there. Having franchises down there would add nothing to the league IMO.
Are people not counting the MLS? I know at least one friendly match was played in Mexico against a local club. They seem closer than MLB to making a Mexican expansion happen
I don't think the Mexican soccer authorities would let an American based major pro soccer league into Mexico.
Arena soccer says otherwise. But you're still probably right about conventional soccer.
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ponder719
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It's been said before, but I'm going to second that MLB is the only league that can justifiably go to Mexico at this point. It's one of the three sites I think would be most likely for MLB's expansion to 32, the others being somewhere in the Carolinas (Raleigh, Charlotte, wherever wants to build them a stadium) and Havana.
Nordskull
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The way the NHL handles expansions, I think Mexico's best chances are elsewhere if you want it to happen before XXIV century.
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I'm guessing you'll see an NFL exhibition or regular-season game in Mexico before too long. Maybe an MLB exhibition game or two as well, although it's not like you need to sell baseball to Mexico.
But no, I don't think any North American pro sports are going to try and franchise in Mexico in the foreseeable future. NASCAR has a Mexico series but that's a bit of a different animal. There really doesn't seem to be much of an appetite down there for much of anything other than Liga MX, though - at least, not when I lived in D.F. and the Yucatan.
But no, I don't think any North American pro sports are going to try and franchise in Mexico in the foreseeable future. NASCAR has a Mexico series but that's a bit of a different animal. There really doesn't seem to be much of an appetite down there for much of anything other than Liga MX, though - at least, not when I lived in D.F. and the Yucatan.
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I doubt it for the simple reason that the monetary conversion would be killer. If the Canadian NHL teams are suffering from the fact that they take in Canadian dollars and have to pay players in American dollars, how do you think a Mexican club in any sport would handle taking in Mexican pesos and paying players in American dollars?
And that's not even bringing up the assured difficulty that a Mexican team would have in retaining and attracting free agents.
Never say never, but I don't see it happened for a very, very long time.
And that's not even bringing up the assured difficulty that a Mexican team would have in retaining and attracting free agents.
Never say never, but I don't see it happened for a very, very long time.
Well, yeah. Mexico City is getting Monday Night Football on November 21st next season. Texans-Raiders.
First game in Mexico since 2005 (49ers-Cardinals).
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I know you guys here hate the phrase "gr*wing the g*me" but I thought it'd be interesting to show you this:
http://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/mexico-wins-gold-in-hockey-championships/
NHL expansion to Mexico is an obvious red herring and joke, but the game is growing in what is really the most non-traditional market in the Americas.
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Big McLargehuge
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Baseball really isn't that big in Mexico. It certainly has it's place, but it's too niche for baseball to ignore all of the extreme negatives that would go along with a Mexican team. I really don't see MLB expanding anywhere in the near future (maybe somebody moves to Montreal, that's about it as far as options are concerned right now).
Don't see the demand for the NBA at this point, certainly not the NHL.
The NFL could certainly end up in Monterrey or Mexico City at some point, preferably the former.
Liga MX > MLS (and they will never join up to make a continental league...the US & Canada sharing a domestic league is extremely rare to begin with and is basically a result of Canada not having any steady soccer infrastructure of their own). That and the MLS is going to grow to the point that they're going to have to split the league in the near future anyway...you're talking 40 teams being inevitable by the time the league is done expanding...there's just nowhere to fit Mexican teams even if Liga MX or the Mexican Football Federation had any reason to consider a merger.
cheswick
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All I know is at the rate we're going, the NHL is expanding there before they go into Quebec City.
Before MLS they tried the reverse of Liga MX expanding to USA and that didn't pan out.
I just don't see Mexico being able to financially support any of our big sports unless someone like Carlos Slim just throws all his money behind it and eats the losses. Maybe the NFL could work just for the TV money.
I just don't see Mexico being able to financially support any of our big sports unless someone like Carlos Slim just throws all his money behind it and eats the losses. Maybe the NFL could work just for the TV money.
Mexico's junior team won the Division III World Juniors, yes. However that is the sixth tier of the World Junior tournaments, against teams from Turkey and New Zealand, for example. Further, it is only the third time Mexico has won at this level; the previous two times they were the hosts, which unsurprisingly they were this year as well. It looks good, but context is important. Also will note that the senior team is only in Division IIB (fifth level), and has been steady at that level for a while now.
Nordskull
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Except MLS, and even then, league is growing rapidly in US, I dont see what could happen.
Not happening.
Except MLS, and even then, league is growing rapidly in US, I dont see what could happen.
Not happening.
cutchemist42
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NFL over MLB in Mexico? By all accounts I've read is baseball's Mexico 2nd biggest sport and is arguable number 1 in a few northern cities like Monterey. I mean, MLB wont say it but they think Mexican baseball could be bigger than it is if it was just organized better and had a bette relationship like NPB does with MLB. So much talent gets wasted in that country.
Still pales in comparison to soccer tho.
You got reading material for the MLS-split, or just your own prediction?
I think the players' associations would be a major hurdle. I don't know how big the NFL is in Mexico, but I could see it working because there's only one game a week and 16 games in the season so the players could really just live in the southern US and commute to games. They could practice in the US and all their road games would be in the US. There are too many MLB games in a season.
I'm not sure you could convince enough players to move down there with their families. Montreal had trouble with some MLB players as it was considered too 'foreign', and you expect players to move their wives and kids to Mexico?
I'm not sure you could convince enough players to move down there with their families. Montreal had trouble with some MLB players as it was considered too 'foreign', and you expect players to move their wives and kids to Mexico?
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