London Silly Nannies

**Affiliations:*** **Independent** (2005-2022)
* **Global Football League** (2023-present)
 **Division Championships** - 0
 **Home stadia:*** **Silly Nanny Stadium** (2005-2022)
* **Wembley Stadium** (2023-present)

**London Silly Nannies Gridiron Football Club**, known simply as the **London Silly Nannies**, are a professional American football team based in London, England. They are currently members of the European Division of the Global Football League (GFL). Their chief rivals are Légionnaires de Paris. The team has a working partnership with the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars.

## Team history

The London Silly Nannies were formed in 2005, as an independent club playing other teams in and around Europe. The name "Silly Nannies" was originally coined by outsiders as an insult to the London players, who hilariously struggled with the game of American football their first season. But fans of the club thought the epithet was cute, and they started embracing the "Silly Nannies" name ironically. Eventually, the fans loved that name so much, that the insult turned into a compliment, and the club permanently incorporated "Silly Nannies" into its official name, **London Silly Nannies GFC**.

For decades, there was speculation that the U.S.-based National Football League (NFL) was planning to put a team of its own in London. The NFL had been playing neutral-site games in London on a regular basis since 2007, and in 2012 the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars had struck a deal to play one of its home games in London every year, thus allowing the Jaguars to expand its fanbase overseas. As of 2022, though, there was no NFL team in London, let alone outside the United States. That's when several global business leaders decided to form the Global Football League.

At the new league's founding, it was decided to put six GFL teams in Europe, all of which would comprise the league's European Division. In light of the NFL dragging its feet on whether of not to place one if its own teams in London, the GFL invited the London Silly Nannies to join its new league. The club accepted the offer, and immediately entered into working partnership with the Jaguars, allowing the NFL club to conduct some of the marketing of the Silly Nannies, in addition to offering personnel in the form of special teams and practice squad players.

## Colors

The Silly Nannies are the only GFL club without a logo on its helmets, which are plain copper featuring green and yellow striping down the middle. Their home jerseys are yellow with white numerals that have brown and green trimming, worn with green pants featuring yellow stripes on the sides. Their away jerseys are green with yellow numerals that have brown and white trimming, worn with yellow pants featuring green stripes on the sides. Their alternate jerseys are white with brown numerals that have yellow and green trimming, worn with green pants featuring yellow stripes on the sides.

## Traditions

Fans of the Silly Nannies have made a custom of dancing around a maypole in the parking lot at every home game, while singing "'Tis Twelve, I Think" by Gilbert and Sullivan. This tradition is rooted in an episode of TV's "Family Guy" where the Silly Nannies were prominently parodied. The tradition has carried over into the Silly Nannies' GFL membership; during the club's May Day Games, fans perform the song and dance routine on the field at halftime, beginning on the afternoon of 1 May 2023, with its game against the Chicago Blues.