The NFL is reportedly monitoring the possible return of an older aircraft technology as part of its plans to expand the league to Europe.

According to Andrew Beaton of the Wall Street Journal , the NFL is “quietly monitoring the progress” of Boom Supersonic and other companies exploring supersonic travel for the “prospect of placing an NFL team — or perhaps an entire division — across the Atlantic.”

It’s been 26 years since the retirement of the Air France and British Airways-operated Concorde flights that regularly made trans-Atlantic supersonic flights.

The NFL has made no secret of its plans to increase its European footprint, even to the point of permanently basing teams on the continent. However, the problems posed by extended travel times for the European division, by the U.S

See Full Page