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The Redskins will face the Cincinnati Bengals on Oct. 30 at Wembley Stadium. The Redskins could also face the St. Louis Rams a week earlier at Twickenham Stadium depending on how the team finishes in the NFC East.

In the first of three games announced Wednesday, the Indianapolis Colts will take on the Jacksonville Jaguars at Wembley on Oct. 2.

The NFL has been playing regular-season games in London since 2007, with every one played at Wembley, the home of England's national soccer team. But next year will start a new deal to hold games at Twickenham, the home of England's national rugby team.

In addition, the St. Louis Rams have committed to hosting a game in London on October 23. If the Redskins and the Rams finish in the same position in their respective divisions in 2015, their game the next season will become part of the London series as well.
No team has ever stayed the week in London and played another game.
If the Rams game is played, it will be a home game for St. Louis. That means no matter how many games the Redskins play in London, they will retain their full eight game home schedule at FedEx Field in 2016.

DEHog wrote:LONDON (AP) — The Washington Redskins could become the first team to play two NFL games in London in the same season.

The Redskins will face the Cincinnati Bengals on Oct. 30 at Wembley Stadium. The Redskins could also face the St. Louis Rams a week earlier at Twickenham Stadium depending on how the team finishes in the NFC East.

In the first of three games announced Wednesday, the Indianapolis Colts will take on the Jacksonville Jaguars at Wembley on Oct. 2.

The NFL has been playing regular-season games in London since 2007, with every one played at Wembley, the home of England's national soccer team. But next year will start a new deal to hold games at Twickenham, the home of England's national rugby team.

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I'm so pumped! I feel like I'm 12 again!!!

If anyone on here is thinking of flying over let me know!

SLR

SouthLondonRedskin wrote:YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!



I'm so pumped! I feel like I'm 12 again!!!

If anyone on here is thinking of flying over let me know!

SLR

With the Washington Redskins set to play a game in London in 2016, the national controversy involving the team's name is now turning into an international controversy.

Five days before the Super Bowl, the NFL received a letter from two members of British Parliament in regards to the Redskins name.

In the Feb. 2 letter, which was obtained by ESPN, parliament members Ruth Smeeth and Ian Austin asked the league to have Washington change its name or "at the minimum, send a different team to our country to represent the sport, one that does not promote a racial slur."

The Redskins are scheduled to play the Bengals on Oct. 30 at Wembley Stadium.

The day after the NFL announced that the Redskins would be playing in England, the Oneida Indian Nation blasted the NFL for creating an international incident by sending the Redskins to London.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has held the same stance on the Redskins name for the past few years. Goodell has reiterated that any name change is ultimately up to owner Daniel Snyder.

League spokesman Brian McCarthy echoed that sentiment in a statement to ESPN.

"A team's name is a club decision," McCarthy said. "We recognize there are strong views on both sides of this."

In the letter from the parliament members, Smeeth and Austin said that the Redskins name goes "directly" against the values of British citizens.

"We were shocked to learn the derivation of the term 'R*dskin,' pertaining as it does to the historic abuse of native Americans," the letter said. "The exportation of this racial slur to the UK this autumn, when the Washington team is due to play, directly contravenes the values that many in Britain have worked so hard to instill."

Smeeth also explained that the game could be an issue for the BBC, the publicly funded company that's scheduled to broadcast the game.

"Given it's taxpayer-funded, if we believe it's a racial slur, then that means problems for the BBC in terms of coverage of the event," Smeeth told ESPN. "There is going to come a pressure point. The last thing the NFL wants -- after putting so much behind its brand in the UK -- is a good number of us to begin putting pressure on the BBC in terms of what they're showing and how they're showing it. This is not the image the NFL wants portrayed in the UK."

The game could also create a problem for Wembley Stadium, which "has strict regulations against the use of racial slurs and chanting at its events and is owned by the football association, which has taken a strong stance against racism in sports," the letter states.

You can read the letter in its entirety by clicking here.

The Week 8 game is a Bengals home game, so if the NFL decided to change it, and that's a big if, then it would likely involve another team on Cincinnati's home schedule playing in London. The NFL could also move the game to Cincinnati.

The Redskins' name controversy has slowly been gaining steam over the past few years.

In October, the state of California banned all public schools in the state from using the name "Redskins" as an athletic team name, mascot or nickname. That ruling came 18 months after the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office canceled Washington's trademark registration on the "Redskins" name.

The Redskins are appealing that ruling.