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I was at my local pub watching a rugby world cup game, they also had the NFL game on in the other bar. No one, and I mean no one, was watching the NFL game.
Rugby is non stop action, American football is not.
They've sold out every game so far that the Jags were part of. Avg ticket prices about 2.5x more than in Jax...so the demand at one game a season is definitely there. It seems they are slowly growing towards having almost an entire home season slate in Europe (shared by multiple franchises) but that would seem to be the test for the league.
I admit the sellouts and so forth have a lot more to do with the NFL marketing machine and a Super Bowl-type event atmosphere, rather than true interest in the sport itself.
there is a vast underground culture of English football fans that are forced to hide in their attics to watch NFL games less drunken hooligans storm their homes and force them to drink bitters and eat their cats, an American invasion of Wembly stadium will at last free these people of fear and permit the open wearing of foam blocks of cheese and Viking horns on their heads.
I wish that instead of petulant little pissing contests about which sport is better, more fun to watch, etc., people would just let the free market system answer this question.
If NFL in London attracts fans, it will make money and persist. If it does not, it will fade away.
Really! That's not very many? Are there only 9 NFL teams in the US?
32 teams. 8 divisions with 4 teams each. It's not like EPL or soccer in general...without getting into too much detail you only play home-away pairs with the other three teams in your division. 4 games are against all the teams in one particular division (rotates each year). And the remaining 6 are against the remaining teams that finished in your same position in their respective division.
Also, the nature of football is such that players can only play about once a week. So 16 games stretches over 4 months. Plus bye weeks, preseason and postseason you're looking at over 6 months.
32 teams. 8 divisions with 4 teams each. It's not like EPL or soccer in general...without getting into too much detail you only play home-away pairs with the other three teams in your division. 4 games are against all the teams in one particular division (rotates each year). And the remaining 6 are against the remaining teams that finished in your same position in their respective division.
Also, the nature of football is such that players can only play about once a week. So 16 games stretches over 4 months. Plus bye weeks, preseason and postseason you're looking at over 6 months.
Oh I see, I guess the fact that the USA is the size of a continent it makes a single league more difficult.
I honestly think the NFL should focus more between these borders.
Football (American) in London might do well for a few years due to the novelty, but I don't think it would last. I doubt most Britons have the cultural affinity for the game that Americans do. In order for any European to really understand how serious it is over here they would have to look at the high school and college football culture. Particularly in the American South and Midwest. A lot of those games make NFL fans look like they're at a golf tournament.
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