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Originally Posted by eddie
When our NFL teams play a game in the UK, do folks over there enjoy going to it or watching the game?
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I have to be honest, it's never going to be huge here, but there is a sizeable minority who probably watch it. The Superbowl gets shown over here too, but the only person I ever really knew who watched it every year was my GF's father, who was from the states. It's not that people are anti American sport, but I think a lot of people struggle with the either the length of the game or what we still - rightly or wrongly - to be the stop/start nature of it.
See, I still maintain that the secret to Footie's enduring status as THE obsession of yer average Brit was the fact it's 90 minutes in length. A couple of hours on a Saturday afternoon, a pint afterwards and home before the wife complains too much.
Various TV companies have been trying to drum up interest in American Football since the mid 80's but it's never really taken off, for whatever reason. It does better here than I imagine Baseball would (no idea about Basketball,). I used to like watching the ice hockey when it was on Channel 5.