Australia all the way!!! This sports mad nation would embrace the Superbowl more then any other country!!!

I know they are trying to export the NFL and England is selling tickets like mad. How did the NBA and Baseball do it? I don’t remember either of them exporting the Finals or the World Series.

That has ever been proposed by the NFL and is primarily a publicity stunt. It will be a sad day when NFL fans in the states, the people who pay for the stadiums these teams play in, who fill the stands full for a lot of teams around the country, who purchase team products and memorabilia by the truck loads. We’re talking millions of people in the United States who follow the NFL every year, who pay extra money to watch the NFL Network year round, and who attend team training camps or pay to watch pre-season games. These people will have to plan a trip across the Atlantic Ocean costing thousands of dollars just to watch their favorite team play the biggest game of the year for the loyal followers, and they’ll have to do it in a stadium (most likely) which is smaller, less well-managed, and entirely unfamiliar to the players in the game. thumbs up Turn the NFL into an international Harlem Globetrotter like attraction. >.<

All that said, I am sure there will be a handful of American football fans in the greater European area who will be stoked that the game is there. It’s a “nice gesture” by the NFL but at the expense of the die hard loyal following in the U.S. which keeps their league viable. Oh well.

I was under the impression that most of the tickets to the super bowl are handed out to sponsors and VIPs, leaving a few thousand tickets for the fans. And still then, if you dish out around $2000 dollars for the ticket and around 500 $ or so for flight tickets and spare change. The price for a flight to SF from NY is 228 $ while it is 444 $ from Paris to NY. Considering how expensive the game will be anyway, it is not like this difference is gonna affect the fans that much.

I’m not sure people get how great the potential is in europe. Even in tiny Denmark where I’m from(size of massachusetts, and some 5.5 million inhabitants) we have around 70.000 loyal viewers each week. And the games are only showing on payment channels. So imagine what it is like in the big european countries. The NFL europe games gathered somewhere between 20.000 and 30.000 spectators pr match, and those were scrubs playing.

Starting with the fact that our economy is in shambles and these events can provide a boost to the host city. Even though they’re talking about several years hence, the timing of the announcement is extremely poor. If weather isn’t apparently a factor any more, I could think of a dozen cities in the US more deserving than a foreign city – Detroit, any one?