Goodell wants a Super Bowl in London

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http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3065254

 

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- A future Super Bowl champion may someday be crowned overseas in a game witnessed predominantly by a foreign audience, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said.

 

"There's a great deal of interest in holding a Super Bowl in London," Goodell told reporters Monday. "So we'll be looking at that."

 

The commissioner said London's new Wembley Stadium would make a great candidate for pro football's biggest matchup, given the enthusiasm overseas for the game.

 

yeah, after the smashing success of NFL Europe, it's pretty obvious that they can't get enough "American Football" over there.

[BMoney 0]

i wont get as p1ssed over the refs blatantly bad calls if i cant see them....

 

 

yay.....fog bowl super bowl....

 

 

and the english crowd goes crazy as mason crosby bends it like beckham....

 

they dont care if hes missing kicks..they just like seeing the bloody thing hook...

 

(it may be cheaper to fly there..and get a ticket..then it would be to go to a game here)..

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what happened to the cold weather rule about super bowls? i'd imagine it's not real warm in london the first week in feb.

 

also, what hell time would that game have to start for it to be on in prime time in the good ol' U S of A??

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what happened to the cold weather rule about super bowls? i'd imagine it's not real warm in london the first week in feb.

 

also, what hell time would that game have to start for it to be on in prime time in the good ol' U S of A??

Meanwhile forget about a game ever being in Denver where the sun actually comes out in the winter. What an awful idea.

[wiffleball 4,796]

I think there'd be a huge fan, sportswriter and sponsor backlash against this.

 

It's like I said a few months ago, the NFL is usually good at marketing, but they're making a classic business mistake when it comes to expansion. They scrapped NFL Europe for the idea of playing 'American' teams all around the world to drum up interest & TV viewership.

 

The problem with that - and the reason why say, Basketall does so well overseas - is that NOBODY (except American ex pats) want to root for an American franchise from 5,000 miles away. A big part of the success of franchises and leagues comes from the 'home town' factor. Spain doesn't give a rat's axx about the Seattle Seahawks. (then again, neither does most of America...)

 

It's a mix of typical business arrogance coupled with (typical) American ethnocentricity. "WE like it, so YOU must like it too."

 

In the meantime, you pixx off and alienate the local fan base here in the states and, instead of being able to sell out a stadium at an average of $300 a ticket (example), you ship the game off to Mexico, Spain, England where you're lucky to sell out the joint for $50 a pop. Yeah, for a SuperBowl, it's gotten to the point where 95% of the tickets go to the super-elite, so it'd basically be a bunch of rich Americans flying to London for the weekend. - Thus FURTHER pricing-out the SB for the 'average' fan. And, as for Europeans flocking to the SuperBowl, most average Americans today can't get tickets to, or afford, the SB - and we GIVE A SHIIT about the game. Again, this wouldn't be some EuroTrash International Experience, it'd be the same fat-cat Americans getting their tickets from all the NFL sponsors. - Just as it is today.

 

In the meantime, you fock up the game by having players battling jetlag from flying halfway around the world.

 

Bad idea.

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This is focking outrageous. WTF is he thinking.

[surferskin 30]

i still can't believe that they're going to play a regular season game overseas this year. i couldn't imagine my team giving up their home field advantage to play in front of a buncha disinterested eurotrash.

[wiffleball 4,796]

Just to prove my point:

 

The tickets to the Dolfins/Giants game at Wembley range in price from "about $90 (euro66.50) to $180 (euro133), using a pricing structure similar to this weekend's FA Cup final between Manchester United and Chelsea."

 

I just checked what it'd cost me to get 2 Broncos Tickets for this Sunday. - $388 each.

 

Excellent Business - Piss off the local fan base so you can go and play 5,000 miles away for a quarter of the ticket price.