For 25 years, the Concorde cut travel time from the United States to Europe and changed the way people crossed the Atlantic. The plane left the skies nearly 25 years ago, but the idea of supersonic travel refuses to fade. Now the NFL is watching that space with real interest.

Andrew Beaton of the Wall Street Journal reports that the league has monitored new efforts to bring back commercial flights that can fly faster than the speed of sound. Boom Supersonic and several international partners hope to put those planes in the air by 2029. The NFL knows faster travel could remove one of the biggest headaches in any plan to expand overseas.

The league loves the idea of cutting long flights in half. The old Concorde was so fast it even allowed Phil Collins to perform in London and Philadelphia

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