There's simply no equitable way to export matches to any country during the season.  Imagine if you are assigned a Monday night match one week, or have a midweek cup or European match and then a Saturday afternoon match...in America.  Travel takes up one entire day (7-10 hour flight, depending on where in the US).  It's just not feasible.  Also, which teams would give up a home match to go play in a neutral -- and how do you fairly decide that?  Pre-season might be possible though.  The difficulty there, to be honest, is playing in the American summer.  If you've never been to Los Angeles, for example, in July/August...it's miserably hot.  All those complaints about the heat during WC '06 --trust me, Germany has nothing on southern California for heat.  New York and Chicago aren't much better.  And if you play during the season, you'll also have to consider American winters.  Again, nothing like in England.  In New York and Chicago, winter starts around now and goes to April.  By that, I mean, it can snow any time during those months.  There is a reason the MLS has a messed up season compared to the rest of the world and takes the winters off.  It might sound all right on paper, to talk about spreading the Premiership to the US, but honestly, it's not possible.  I'm not expecting anything to come of this.  Although since I now live on the wrong side of the Atlantic, I would greatly enjoy seeing proper football.  I'd settle for getting the EPL on the telly.  And not on channel 106 like it is now (expanded digital cable, so I can watch even some matches, costs me $90 a month and most people don't want to pay that). 

And spizz energi, since I can speak with some authority having played both games -- rounders doesn't really compare to baseball.  Until you've stood as a batter and watched a 90 mile per hour tennis-sized ball of steel (that's what it feels like when it hits you) approaching from 60 feet away...don't slag off the sport.  Rounders is an easy schoolyard game, baseball done properly (as Yanks do) is not.  Similarly, I tire of people criticizing American football players for wearing padding.  While I don't care for the sport, never have and never will no matter how many times my Yank neighbors make me watch it, if they didn't wear pads and helmets they'd likely kill each other.  It's much more violent than rugby, and yes, I've played rugby up through college.  I have never, in all my life, heard rugby fans shouting in quite the manner of American football fans.  "Hit him" was the gentlest, varying up right to "knock his head off" and "kill him".  Not kidding.  I was a bit put off by that.  Nice little girl next to me, about 17, looked sweet and innocent, flirted a bit, then the game starts and she was calling for blood and maiming and death.  Apparently, the point of tackling in American football is to hit the opponent as hard as possible with the intention of causing bodily injury (to a degree).  They call this "making him feel it".  Roy Keane should have played gridiron.  He'd have been right at home.

And by the way, no Baltimore doesn't have an MLS team.  The Philadelphia Eagles play in the NFL, as do the Baltimore Ravens (and yes, I hate the Americans' custom of stupid nicknames, at least the MLS is starting to abandon that).  But neither city has an MLS club.  New York, Boston, Washington, Columbus (Ohio), Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Toronto, Colorado, Kansas City, Los Angeles (two clubs), and Salt Lake City have clubs.  So I would expect those to be the proposed locations of matches.  Most have the large NFL stadiums available, and are large cities with potential markets.  But honestly, I can't see the EPL ever trying this seriously.  It's just not feasible.

Rugby violence and NFL violence are very different. Rugby players are tough, tough men. As ohmelads said, you have all the eye gouging, biting, stomping, teeth losing, nose crumpling and occasional bone breaking too. But in the NFL, its not just that they are tough men, (which they are, trust me you'd be terrified if you saw them up close.) It's that they have all that inaction followed by a pure head-on car crash collision every half minute. The NFL players are between 250-350 pounds on average, and run lightning fast. There was some rugby expert who said the collisions in rugby are nothing compared to the NFL ones, where they hit each other as if shot out of cannons, he used some statistics to back that up. They are basically human missiles, launching themselves at top speed, with ridiculous amounts of power and leverage at the other player. This leads to some rather gruesome injuries often if they hit each other the wrong way. So yes, while rugby players are extremely tough men who would never back down from a fight, the point of NFL football isn't just to beat each other up or prove you are the tougher man, but rather to quite literally hit the other person so hard that you kill him, or at least absolutely knock him unconscious. That intent, and the ability to do so with every hit, is why the helmets and padding are necessary. Even with the helmets, it is estimated that something like 10-50 percent of HIGH SCHOOL (14-17 year old) football players suffer major concussions, and they are nowhere near as big and violent as the NFL players.

Ohmelads -- I agree about the constant stoppages.  I remember commenting to a friend that you needn't be "match fit" to play American football.  You only have to play for ten seconds, then rest for ten to twenty, play for ten...so on. 

Now, time for an admittance.  I played American football, as part of a fundraiser event over here.  Rugby, for all it's gouging and stamping and getting the sh** stomped out of you in a ruck and the joys of the scrum (by the way, I was a prop) does not tackle anything like American football.  Gridiron is far more sanitized than rugby, now.  It wasn't when it developed, and people quite literally died on the pitch.  When university teams were the major teams going (early part of the 20th century) it wasn't uncommon for 20 or more of these 18-22 year olds to die, every season.  Helmets and pads were enforced to halt that trend -- and they institute new rules all the time to make the game even safer while trying to maintain the essence.  The intent in gridiron is to hurt people, and I've been tackled in rugby, the intent is to stop the forward flow of play.  Or at least it was for us -- we weren't World Cup players, by any stretch. Rucks and scrums hurt because of the set-up of the game, not because players truly wish to maim one another (they definitely consider it part and parcel of the sport, but less the intent, again, in my experience). Rugby is a long hard slog of being beaten about for the whole match and getting broken fingers, toes (I had both those), ribs, noses, cheekbones, etc.  plus a lot of bruises, scrapes, twists, sprains and blackened eyes and playing on.  That's how you earn your stripes, so to speak, in a rugby squad.  Yet, I have never heard of a rugger being paralyzed on the pitch.  That happened not two years ago over here in the NFL.  The player is a quadraplegic now.  That's proper scary.

I *have* stood in front of a haka, and I agree, no one would look at that giant Maori lad and say "knock his head off" because he'll just run over you.  Multiple times.  With great glee.  Still, I'll take playing rugby over American football.  I'll take all my broken toes and broken fingers and everything else.  I actually prefer rugby for the long hard slog, not the short bursts of sheer intentional violence.  It takes an entirely different sort of player.  I only brought up the original comparison because I see it so often by those who don't play American football (much like the rounders=baseball one from earlier in this thread).  Living over here, I must say that I refuse to take the piss out of American sports ever again.  In fact, I refuse to joke about any sport I've not played, because you can never appreciate it until you've played it properly. 

And to keep this even slightly on-topic -- Americans love "soccer", and most enjoy watching the EPL once they've been exposed to it.  I just don't think it can be exported in the "live" manner with any integrity to the league.  Seriously, try better television marketing, then worry about getting live matches over here.  Unlike gridiron in Britain where most people really haven't a clue of the sport, Americans know the basics of soccer.  Let them see the beautiful game as it's played in places like Serie A and the EPL...they'll only fall deeper in love.  Just remember that gaining the market isn't worth compromising the sport.