Once the NFL finds a way to get a team back into LA, they'll be looking at small markets in the U.S., while billions of non-Americans are out there to potentially buy tickets and jerseys and watch games on television. I don't know that an overseas Super Bowl will work, given the value to American television of a game that starts at their preferred time. And I suspect that without local teams, a Super Bowl in London will work as well as an FA Cup final would in the States.
> 2. I don't know what the potential is for the NFL to grow beyond a niche > sport in the UK, but I do know that the NFL dearly wants it too, and > continues to nurture fantasies of some kind of European and Latin American > Conferences ( I have seen mock up schedules for a time when current NFL > teams in the southwest and west coast travel to Mexico City and a few other > Latin locations regularly during the regular season. I suspect if they > thought it would pay off with a Euro Conference, the NFL might even be > willing to waste one of its very precious Super Bowls on a cold rainy London > Night the first week in some February in 5 years or so (even if it meant a > game start time at 1:00pm and 10:00 am in the US). I am not sure why they > have such a hard-on for this though - I don't see it adding much value for > US fans, and I am not sure the NFL would ever catch on in Europe the way it > has here. Maybe they see it as a first step towards an Indian and Chinese > Conference. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
