NFL Invades England, England Retaliates
Arrogant NFL’s Imperialism Could Have Dire Consequences
The NFL recently advanced one of the league’s worst football teams, the Dolphins, into England to play a subpar football game the Giants that ended with the Giants holding off a late “comeback” effort by the Fins, 13-10. England responded yesterday by saying that the Premier League might start playing games in the US. Oh, the humanity! Roger Goodell, look at what you’ve done! Next time you think of playing football overseas, think of the consequences!
You can’t force football onto a soccer-loving nation! Goodell said that we would be greated as heroes in England. Not so.
One English man commented on a Guardian sports blog:
This is all just crap marketing nonsense. I do recall that the NFL have already tried to impose this body-armoured, steroid-fuelled, waste-of-three-hours-even-though-it’s supposed-to-take-one pointless sport on Europe and got precisely nowhere. And the reason? People here watch sport to see people compete, not to see cheerleaders and $15m running backs do little celebration dances because ‘they are the man’ and certainly not to see drugged up thirty stone idiots shoving each other for three seconds at a time. This will have the same impact NFL Europe had.
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[...] This is what some England residents had to say about the NFL’s first game in London: This is all just crap marketing nonsense. I do recall that the NFL have already tried to impose this body-armoured, steroid-fuelled, waste-of-three-hours-even-though-it’s supposed-to-take-one pointless sport on Europe and got precisely nowhere. And the reason? People here watch sport to see people compete, not to see cheerleaders and $15m running backs do little celebration dances because ‘they are the man’ and certainly not to see drugged up thirty stone idiots shoving each other for three seconds at a time. This will have the same impact NFL Europe had. [...]