London Warriors

We had such a good thing a couple years ago.

London Warriors didn't film games two years ago.

They just refused to share tape.

That's why everyone was really weird about them coming into the league.

Like, the Bristol Aztecs, which is UK national champion, had, like... a graphic on screen saying, like, congratulations to UK national champions, Bristol Aztecs.

There was nothing like, coming to 2026, it's the London Guard, and like a little bit of a video package with Effie Obata, who played in the NFL, and is a spokesman for the London Guard.

Then add that, on the flip, same side of the coin, London Warriors didn't try and do that.

Effie used to play for the London Warriors, which kind of makes it awkward, because he used to play for one team, and now he's with another.

Insane, right? He played for the London Olympians, a British American football league team.

He played a little bit of football at Northern Iowa Community College in Iowa, but He was defensive coordinator for London Warriors.

He was an intern for Dallas Cowboys.

Then he got a coaching scholarship, a Bill Walsh NFL diversity coaching scholarship in 16.

There doesn't seem from the outside looking in that they're sustainable, at least from what they quick-started, and some real groundwork needs to be laid if it's going to be a long-term thing.

Yeah, and the London, kind of in similar fashion to Poland, the London Warriors came in from the U.K., and I believe that there's another team that's going to be popping up in one of these leagues in the U.K., It'll just be really interesting to see how they try to go about all of this, and how do you kind of balance having two big teams when you're trying to grow BAPA, when PFL was kind of on its way up, and it looked like a pretty competitive league just based on what the Warsaw Eagles were able to do in the CEFL, and then you had Roswa in...

the, uh, AFL final getting their break speed off by Vienna, but they at least made it.

So it's just a bunch of interesting stuff that, that it's just going to be weird to see shake out.

me is five really well coached teams um yeah we're talking about we've had conversations earlier about uni teams connected to adult teams.

So obviously Southampton Solent, they have the connection with the Thrashers and that whole system with, you know, under Dave Gibbs and the rest of that coaching staff is just sort of attached to But one that a lot of people don't seem to know is the amount of connection between the Royal Holloway Bears and the London Warriors.

There are a lot of coaches attached to the Bears who've just had a year coaching a semi-pro team in a European league.

What? What does that give you? Going into pre-season, knowing that your coach has just been coaching with and against guys at that level, Surely they must be going into the year feeling good about themselves.