NFL game in london? WTF?
 

...i don't really care much about sports in general.... but don't they already have a much better version of football in england and the rest of the world?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/29/sp...giants.html?hp

N.F.L. officials have floated vague but aggressive plans to stage 16 international games a year (to include every team annually) and to play the Super Bowl in foreign cities.

But this was the first big leap toward that uncertain future. All the planning came to an end as darkness fell on London, as if one phase of the process actually ended with the bang of pregame fireworks.

"foreigners" don't care about stupid (american) football. that's some seriously retarded shit.

yes. 90 minutes of uninterrupted game without commercials, with only a 15' break in between.

American football is just rugby for those to soft to play without padding and a crash helmet

or it's just a competetive game a lot of people enjoy playing and watching?

NFL is really big in the UK, i always thought Basketball was the most popular of the 4 US sports, but especially in the Universities NFL is very popular.

...it will end with this.

ewww

Prats that wank on about how soccer is incomparably better can slag off. I'm a yank that happens to love soccer, but cheers to the NFL.

Let's raise a pint to the NFL, lads!

don't be such a git.

Spectator sports can all choke on a giant bag of dicks.

EDIT:
OK, that was unduly harsh.
But I do wish they would at least take the sports sections out of the broadcast news.
It's a GAME.
And sports have enough other media outlets that they don't need to be included with actual news.

I love football. I think there are a lot of brits into it as well. it is the complexity of chess with VIOLENCE. It is my favorite sport of all.

rugby is a rough rough contact sport, but it is not a collission sport, and if you do not know what I mean or believe it, then get yr ass to the sideline of an NFL game and listen to how LOUD and violent the hits are on each and every single play. There is no comparison in any sport.

sumo guys hit hard but they have no stamina, and their matches rarely last longer than 3 minutes.

The United States hosts many european league and mexican league and latin american league matches, to try and increase the exposure to high quality futbol/soccer here. That is great. There is no difference betwene this and having NFL teams play in places like UK and germany and Canada and Mexico where there are a good number of fans.

did anyone see the game? i did. The Giants and the Diolphins tore up that field so bad! just shredded it up. I love games in the rain but that field was not used to 320 lb man-giants trodding upon it!

saw the game, most of it. i was flipping back and forth between Giants-Dolphins, Colts-Panthers, and Eagles-Vikings.

i posted about this yesterday in a soccer thread
http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/sho...ghlight=mighty

its all about expanding markets and that delicious sound of foreign currency accumulating in NFL's coffers...the radio said the stadium was sold out and could have sold 3x the tickets...

Rugby isnt a collission sport?

What rugby games have you been to?

Wapping Pigeon Fanciers Second 11??

Players have ears torn off in rugby, bones broken, players crippled and even the odd death

Tackles are every bit as violent as those in american football

On the subject of UK football, you cant really compare it to american football, they are as alike as apples and oranges

I think some while ago a rugby team actually played an american football team but I cant find the result, anyone know what it was

I vaguely recall what you're talking about. I have a feeling that they played a game of Rugby and a game of American Football. I've no idea as to the outcome though.

I have been to many rugby games, and while there are several violent collissions in each game, most of it is more wrestling and shoving than straight up collissions between players, which in american football happen between half the players on every single play.

My dad had several ribs broken playing rugby. Put me right off the game.

like I said, it is a rough contact sport.

the middle of a scrum is the last place I wanna be!