On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Joe Hass <hassgoc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > To pivot this slightly, what the NFL has yet to do is put a game in London > that would (in theory) be a moderately compelling match up. In the 14 games > played as part of the "International Series", this was the first year > where a intradivisional game was played (Jets/Dolphins). Nine have been > interconference. > > And with Jacksonville (the one team that needs to be relocated but isn't) > in one game for each of the next five years, I don't see that trend > changing soon > > Surely that's because they wouldn't dare to remove a big game from a side's home schedule and take it to London? Given that an NFL side only has 8 guaranteed home fixtures a season, it's quite a move to give up one of those ties.
Indeed if the boot was on the other foot, and I was told that this season, Arsenal v Man United was going to played in New York, I'd be really upset. I mean *really* upset. And we get 19 home ties a season for Premier League football. It's actually for this reason that I no longer go along to any of the London games. It doesn't seem fair to home fans of sides playing that they're deprived of a home tie. Now it'd be a different case if the Jaguars became a London side, something that is off-mooted. But I'm not convinced the numbers stack up yet. Never mind the logistical challenges of stacks of transatlantic flights with jet-lag, and kick-offs that could never be anything but 2pm EST games or earlier in the US. (We did enjoy the fact that Miami brought it's own toilet tissue with it this year!) For starters, they have to work hard to sell out these games, and they're not quite doing that. Wembley holds 90,000 seated. They close off a few rows at the front for NFL fixtures, but there were definitely empty seats on Sunday. And that's despite having "fan rallys" in Trafalgar Square and closing off Regent Street. I get the NFL UK emails and there are always tickets available. A smaller stadium like Spurs' new one, a possible site for future NFL games, would help, but it's not as though we're short of sporting opportunities in London. Finally, a note on the UK transmission of Sunday's game. It was live on Sky Sports as most NFL games are - they effectively had four games back to back for most of Sunday. But it was also live on BBC Two which is free to air. I strongly suspect that the NFL gives very favourable rates to get BBC coverage. It promotes the sport. Anyway, BBC Two ran its own graphics package alongside the regular (CBS?) commentary team. Switching between Sky and BBC coverage you could see the two. I believe sports graphics are effectively data + CSS-style display information, and the BBC chose to use it's own display format. The only bit they couldn't seem to do was the clock, so it was old school camera-pointed-at-stadium-clock and in vision. Adam -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
