The NFL is keen on expanding its operations outside of the USA and possibly to London for a number of reasons. One, most importantly for the fact that if the NFL wants to hit over $25 billion in revenue per year, it needs to expand. London is a great place for hosting sports like soccer, and it's also well known for Wembley Stadium. A stadium that isn't used to it's full potential as of right now.
Some of the main factors that might act as a barrier to the NFL being successful in London come into play when it comes to fans. As mentioned in the article, surrounding areas such as Germany or Ireland won't have as hard of a time as people from the United States when it comes to attending these games. Once a year is understandable, but true fans want to experience more than one game per-year and they want to be able to feel that team spirit. If the NFL were to move its location to London, I don't think that each team will have as many supporters as they do now.
Re-locating to London definitely will have some consequences for it's efforts to expand. Like I mentioned previously, there will not be as many fans supporting their teams if they are moved to a place that is difficult to get to (for some people). When the fans aren't as supportive, the team might not perform as well and then when teams aren't doing well, the players won't feel as good about playing. The snow-ball effect will go on and on in this case.
Overall, I think it would be a good idea to move the NFL to London if the decision was strictly based upon revenue per year. However, I don't think that this should be the deciding factor. I don't see our US teams doing as well as they are doing here as they would in London.
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