Steelers won't be in London until tomorrow morning...

Scruffy,
Yinz want to talk to the local hotel,restaurant,shop,minimart,ect owners. Take just one game away. That hurts the local economy. The local business depend on those home games. F*&K London!! Keep our game on our turf !!!

 

Outside of not playing in London, there's really no proven or correct way to handle road trips. The Steelers probably handed the situation similarly to the way they handled road trips out west.

 

Vikes are also on a different time zone, and have a longer flight. Pretty sure the teams fly with some leg room, and not coach like most normal people. IMO it won't be a factor

 

Knab I think you nailed it, can we get more? LOL

 

Big corporations are shipping jobs overseas so I guess it's rubbing off on the NFL, must be a global economy thing.

 

ATTICA
ATTICA
ATTICA

 

Weary Steelers turn to Vikings after overnight flight to London

By By Alan Robinson Alan Robinson Steelers Reporter Steelers Reporter Published: Friday, Sept. 27, 2013, 10:57 p.m. Updated 12 hours ago

LONDON — Just call them the sleep-deprived Steelers.

LaMarr Woodley gripped the podium so tightly as he answered questions, it was almost as if he was using it to hold himself up following a nearly sleepless night.

Turns out he was doing exactly that.

Woodley became the first Steelers player to question the team's decision to wait until Friday to arrive in London for the first intercontinental regular-season game in the franchise's 81-season history, saying, “It would have been nice (to have traveled earlier), but we didn't. We've just got to deal with it. We can't do anything now.”

Woodley fell asleep relatively soon after the Steelers stepped onto their Virgin Atlantic charter to London on Thursday night, but woke up about 10 p.m. (3 a.m. in London), and he stayed up for the remaining five hours of the 71⁄2-hour transcontinental flight.

“I didn't get any sleep,” said Woodley, whose bleary eyes were matched by numerous others among the Steelers' large traveling party.

The Vikings (0-3) have been in London since Tuesday, partly because they are the home team and thus had more NFL-mandated responsibilities, such as putting on a youth football clinic. The Jaguars and 49ers, who play in London next month, also plan to arrive early in the week.

Coach Mike Tomlin, who said he slept for much of the trip, preferred that the Steelers do all of their major pregame preparation in Pittsburgh, just as they do for any other game.

“We were searching for, and found, normalcy,” he said.

The team schedule was a crowded one Friday, including a midafternoon practice, but quarterback Ben Roethlisberger planned to sleep as soon as he could.

Sleeping early in the evening would go against the generally recommended practice of adjusting one's body clock to the local time as soon as possible.

“If, after practice, we're exhausted and we feel like going to bed, we're going to go to bed,” said Roethlisberger, who's now in a city where he is only the second-most well-known Big Ben.

 

You figgured that out all on your own, did ya? ​

 

Well done for that, Woodley.

Nothing like psyching the whole team up, declaring how ready you are for the game and detailing how the Steelers will destroy the Vikings.

Oh, wait, just moan that you're tired instead.

 

Yep.

Imagine a heavyweight boxer doing the same thing at his pre-match press conference?

Or a movie star doing it promoting their new film?

You've got to be talking the team up before a match, regardless of whether you're tired or not.

 

woodley is tired ? , is 3 years that is sleeping

 

SET HIS ALARM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIgZ7gMze7A

 

Lol. Were you able to make it to London, Freak?

 

no i couldn't i had a couple of problems here in italy , but i don't mind i don't like too much football outside of usa . i still have to organize a trip to the burgh ...much better

 

right.
what is up with the pope?

straighten the tower of pisa

dewater venice

just kidding

I want your problems as long as it meant I was in Italy. LOVE IT.

 

i will talk to my lawjer , he will send you my papers

 

just as long as you haven't captained a cruise ship

 

no don't worry little bit less

 

Relax there Myron. I know its been a tough season on all yinzers but it's never going to matter what fans say anyways. And don't even get me started about CBAs and players. We are fdd

Bman

 

Didnt the NFL try a league in Europe? How did that work out? Why are we moving our games over there? Its our game please keep it on our soil.

 

Apparently there is not enough money. It wont matter anyways because Soccer ( their football) is number one. It will never work . It may as a CFL kinda thing but not NFL.

Bman

 

GREED! This why you have football in London.

 

I'm with you. Wonder how stadium workers, vendors, hotels, restaurants, parking lots and Viking fans feel about this.

 

The jet lag... that's what it was.