How would you feel about the Super Bowl being played in London?
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4130864&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines
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Also, the US would be losing out on all the revenue generated in the city that hosts the Super Bowl. In 2007, Miami hosted Super Bowl XLI between the Indianapolis Colts and the Chicago Bears. This one event generated $469 million in direct and ancillary revenues and this doesn't include money brought in due to the ripple effect of having Super Bowl exposure.
Americans like football and our economy could always use the boost in sales. The Super Bowl needs to stay in the United States.
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For example, for Super Bowl XLIV, over 46,000 hotel rooms were booked. That's a lot of damned money American businesses could sure use.
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You misread that news article. The 46000 is how many hotel rooms are in the metropolitan area, not how many were booked for the football game:
"Among the cities of Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater, there are roughly 46,000 rooms of lodging, ranging from large hotels to bed-and-breakfast inns." I have never seen a convincing argument that football games make money for the hosting site. How many people travel to see a football game? The crowds are always for the home team. Those people don't need hotels and won't spend any more than they usually do for other entertainment.
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Honestly, it doesn't really matter to me where the Super Bowl is held. There's no way I can afford to go anyway, so as long as it's on TV, it's fine with me.
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atmosphere for the game, and it is an American based game. But I totally disagree
with the fact that some of you think that nobody in the uk watch or follow it. Being a
uk resident I can inform you that there is a big percentage of followers and even a
numerous amount of teams based in the uk. University also widely encourage students
to get involved.
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I would not expect to see that change any time soon.
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However, this doesn't really bother me on any deep level. I do love American football, but I never attend any games in person...and definitely won't go to the Super Bowl, even when it's held here in my part of Texas. It's expensive, crowded, and much less enjoyable than kicking back in my living room and watching the game on TV.
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London had an NFL (Europe) team for a number of years. They were called the London Monarchs.
Now, if we were to open up the NFL to include worldwide teams, that would be a different story. However, that isn't the case today, therefore no place outside of the USA should be considered for the Superbowl.
Go Bears! (sorry, had to)
- Jennifer
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I find it interesting. If it is a rare enough spectacle, it could bring in tourism revenues for London. After all, once the 2012 games in London are over something has to be done with all those facilities that were built.
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They don't need most British people. Just enough to fill up the stadium, which they seem to have done a couple of times during the regular season. The NFL would be earning some foreign income off the Brits while still doing its normal business on US tv and logo item marketing.
"The league also reaps a majority of the proceeds from ticket sales, which will amount to around $57.6 million this year, given a sellout crowd of 72,000 and an average ticket price of $800."
http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/jan2008/pi20080128_435071.htm
The NFL has been trying to move in on the European market for years. Without much luck but I'm sure they'll keep on trying.
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Interesting reply and tbh fairly sad coming from someone whom is obviously passionate about the game or the concepts of the finacial implications of revenue!
I agree that the Superbowl should not be played anywhere else but America for many of the above reasons but more importantly for the American fans who commit themselves as part of their ritual every weekend for the 4 month duration. To take the bowl out of America would, in my opinion, be sad and a slap in the face to American fans.
To say the interest is not here in the UK however is pure lunacy, Wembley Stadium has been packed out for the past 3 yrs solid, and im pretty sure if you check the official attendance at any of the 3 games played in London, it will be higher than most if not nearly all of the games played on home soil. Surely this is an indication of how popular Football has become in the UK and including Europe as a whole. The only thing that stops football becoming a massive sport here is TV coverage. Although it is and has been available on Sky for some years, it has not held a spot on our pathetic 4 channel reception since the 80's (this for reference was when football was at its British peak and boasted many teams across the country).
I can testify that there are growing numbers of fans, albeit players or supporters in the UK and surely that can only be an encouraging thing for the NFL? Football is very much liked here too! Be positive and respect the fact that one of your nations pasttimes is enjoyed throughout the world, not just America.
I don't know where you are getting your facts about British interest in the NFL regular season games. The interest generated has been enough to sell Wembley out 5 times over. This year the game was sold out within 1 hour of going on sale.
I went to the game yeaterday between the Patriots and the Bucs, and I would say that the enthusiasm shown at the game far outstrips the enthusiasm that could be shown by an American audience, simply because we don't have the opportunity to attend multiple games. The atmosphere is comparable to a superbowl for the Americans.
However, I do agree that the superbowl should be held in the US. It is a huge American tradition, like the FA cup is a huge British tradition. It wouldn't be fair to deny home fans the opportunity to attend the event.