The Tennessee Titans took on the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, and for 104.5 The Zone host and Titans sideline reporter Ramon Foster, he was very positive about his experience despite the team’s loss.
Foster, one-third of Ramon, Kayla & Will, was joined in studio Monday by his Titans Radio colleague Rhett Bryan. Co-hosts Kayla Anderson and Will Boling were absent Monday morning as they were still traveling back to Nashville from London.
With the exception of the Jaguars, who play a couple games every season in England and have become London’s adopted franchise, the league cycles teams in and out of international games. That means teams like the Titans really only get to go overseas and play once every few years considering up until this year the only international contests were the three or four London games and a Monday night game in Mexico City.
Ramon Foster said he’d be glad to make the trip back to the English capitol city.
“That London trip, to play a game to be a part of a game, give me one every 3-4 years man,” he said. “I’m OK with that.”
Ramon Foster added that while the trip was indeed fun and memorable, the travel, getting ready to move around the city, being a part of an event like that, it was all a lot. He gave the Jaguars credit for committing to going over there every season.
“I think we all enjoyed ourselves, but I don’t know how the Jags do it every single year for two games,” he said.
Bryan, who is the Titans Radio executive producer and pregame show co-host, really liked the Tottenham stadium, which was built for the primary tenants in the Premier League and opened in 2019. It was fitted with retractable playing surfaces, which allow for the soccer matches to take place on a proper grass pitch to then be swapped out for an NFL field on artificial turf.
“It is beautiful,” Bryan said. “That 62,000 felt like a whole lot more in there.”
Some design elements from that stadium in England will be incorporated into the new Titans stadium that will be built in the next four years. Bryan and Foster both agreed that if that’s the case, Nashville has plenty to be excited about when the doors open.
“If that is what we’re talking about on the east bank of the Cumberland River, that’s a lot to look forward to,” Bryan said. “Because the stadium was super nice.”
