American Football Going Global?
This made my jaw drop:
London has launched an audacious bid to stage the Super Bowl within the next eight years, a move that would see the United States' biggest sporting event played overseas for the first time, the Sunday Telegraph has reported.
The NFL is denying this (follow the link for the denials), but they have played exhibition games there. It makes sense to me that the NFL would try to expand their horizons.
Comments
Time zone fun
[Mike Brazinski] May 3, 2009 21:32:17.567
Let's see, if kickoff is usually around 6:30pm Eastern, which is GMT-5, that'd make kickoff at 11:30pm local time in London. I really don't see that happening.
the real thing
[HKN] May 4, 2009 3:53:19.337
with American football it's like with Java vs. Smalltalk: you've got to experience the original, the real thing: Rugby