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Will Dolphins suffer from jet lag Sunday?

truedolfan57 said:
for a foreign company? it wouldn't be the NFL anymore?
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Its a franchise. Each franchise is its own company. Players are employees of their teams, not the NFL. The NFL is a non profit corp with very few employees.

For example, McDonald's is an American corporation, much like the NFL is. When you go to a McDonald in London, the company that operates that particular McDonalds is incorporated in that country, and its employees pay UK taxes.
 
Albert Romano said:
There are tax agreements between most countries (In other words- you can get some US tax credit for paying taxes in another country). You are basically taxed on your worldwide income in the US.
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If you pay taxes in a foreign county on your salary, you are credited those taxes on your annual return in the USA. That is the rule for individuals. For corporations operating in other countries, such as the NFL, it gets really complicated.
 
I don't like how late we left. I travel internationally for a living - like 50% of the time I'm in a foreign country. I'm lucky in that I can sleep on planes pretty well. I find that jet lag hits me worse on day 2 than on day 1 but perhaps that's just me. You can't always go to sleep when you want because your body clock is off though I imagine the players have some pills for that. I'm just concerned that the Raiders have been there since Monday and are completely adjusted while we will be only partially adjusted at best. 48 hours from touchdown (no pun intended) to kickoff is right in that "crappy zone" where the jet lag can be most problematic. I guess we'll know something's up if we see any of our backups copping Z's on the bench!
 
I rejoined my unit in Iraq coming from the states. Flew in at night, got briefed and went to work the next morning. If I can do it in combat they better he able to do it playing a game.
 
retarmyfinfan said:
I rejoined my unit in Iraq coming from the states. Flew in at night, got briefed and went to work the next morning. If I can do it in combat they better he able to do it playing a game.
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As I said in the other thread, it shouldn't be that every professional has to endure what soldiers are forced to endure.

Your conditions as a soldier should be better. Unfortunately there's no soldier's union, so you have to accept working conditions -- and wages -- that lag behind the standards that pretty much every other working person in the country enjoys, relative to the skills and dangers involved.
 
Take some Spark from Advocare and you will feel fine.
 
Interesting if true.

Actually, the NFL's studies the day and time of a team's arrival aren't so much of a factor in performance.

"The Patriots flew in landed on a Friday and won robustly," Mark Waller, the NFL's executive vice president of international affairs said. "We've had teams be there all week and be competitive and had teams be there all week and lose. What we've learned is the travel time doesn't seem to have a bearing on who wins and who loses."

Raiders pass rusher Justin Tuck compared his team's approach to the London trip to a college bowl game week.

http://touch.sun-sentinel.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-81503565/
 
Coach Belichick flew in early to Miami this year to get used to the humidity and promptly got his ass kicked in the 2nd half.
 
I think both teams played it right. The Raiders are attempting to acclimate to local time and our team will probably essentially keep their watches/schedule kept at Miami time. The Raiders really got screwed big time in this deal.
 
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