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"American" football IS football. The NFL is the most lucrative and most popular sports league in the world. The NFL has international interest. The six NFL games played at Wembley since 2007 have been sellouts. Once Europeans got a taste for the real product the demand is there for more games and talk of a future NFL franchise in London, possibly using the abandoned stadium from the Olympics.
Besides London, there is interest in other European countries and China. No need to call football "American Football."
4.1 million of the 17.1 million viewers (around 1 in 4) were watching on Univision. That doesn't exactly reinforce a typical American's draw to the game.
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To put it plainly there is very little interest in American football in the UK. They tried it on channel 4 and even the BBC, but it failed to generate any real interest. There's just not enough action in the game.
Rugby is a better game to watch and the players don't use pads or helmets, plus there's very few stoppages in the game.
I believe Germany did the best with NFL Europe (and related) games, but yeah, I love (American) football and dont' enjoy watching (soccer) football outside of the World Cup, but it is insane to think that our football is bigger than football globally. It isn't close.
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