NFL continues American football export drive to UK
 

Looks like the US are about to invade one of its closest allies :O:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20049783

You think they'd at least showcase good games over there. I doubt that the Premier League would send someone like late 2000s-era Derby County over here to show soccer at its best.

That's a question I was going to ask but forgot in the original post Mark....are either of these teams top drawer over in the US or are they also rans?

New England is usually a contender, but St. Louis is not very good, and hasn't been for some time. It will likely be a very lopsided game.

A few friends are heading over for the game, they also went up for the NotreDame-Navy match in Dublin.

I still say if they're gonna try to sell it in Yurrup they need to go with the "HandEgg" thing. :O:

I wouldn't mind seeing a game played without all that protection :)

Have you considered importing Rugby?

I don't know. American football is more like ancient land combat, where lines of soldiers faced each other and fought it out. The object really seems to be to run over the other guy as hard and fast as you can. I know the Aussies do it without armor, but how long do their careers really last? You can only break so many parts before they don't work so well anymore.

It wouldn't be the same game. It would be rugby. You don't hit the same way without pads that you do with pads. Not passing judgement one way or another, but if you watch the two games, the mechanics are completely different.

I wonder what kind of attendance they are expecting at Wembley :hmmm:

Good and fair points....different sporting cultures I guess.

Well, we had the British Invasion back in the 60's now its our turn. The NFL is taking over:D

They will send Obama over when he looses..........Oops that was hush hush.

Cough...LOOK OVER THERE A HOTDOG STAND!

Not really. There are some British fans, but the game is largely alien to them, not having grown up with it. I can understand that too. American football has a great deal of peculiarities that make it an acquired taste. There's a ton of people on the field, a bizarre scoring system and about 7 million rules. The action also stops about every 15 seconds.

Personally, I love the game, but I grew up with it. I also recall my earliest memories of watching football and not knowing what the hell was going on. I just thought it was exciting when they threw the ball. The way that many Europeans feel about American football is the way I feel about European football (soccer). I didn't grow up with it and I don't really get it. To the informed viewer, it is very exciting. To me, it is excruciatingly long periods where nothing is happening puncuated by the occasional goal. To me, football is the perfect television sport; giving the viewer time between plays to grab snacks, hit the head and argue with his friends. To the uninformed viewer, it is rife with breaks in the action that disrupt the continuity of the game.

It's all what you know from your environment. I don't expect the NFL to really catch on in Britian more than European football has caught on in America.