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Super Bowl in London?

Perhaps because it's an American game with no foreign teams. It's the NATIONAL football league. How do you think it'd go over if they held the Premier League Championship in New York?
 
Like I was totally going to see it this year live, and now they took it away! #$##@!!! DIE BASTAGES DIE!
 
Originally posted by: toekramp
Perhaps because it's an American game with no foreign teams. It's the NATIONAL football league. How do you think it'd go over if they held the Premier League Championship in New York?
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There is no EPL championship unless you are confusing it with the FA Cup, but yeah, you would have a shit-ton of hooligans both up in arms as well as invading our soil if they ever proposed any such venue change.


edit: from what I have read chances of getting a SB ticket are just as slim in the US as they would be in GB or anywhere else.
 
Originally posted by: RKS
Originally posted by: toekramp
Perhaps because it's an American game with no foreign teams. It's the NATIONAL football league. How do you think it'd go over if they held the Premier League Championship in New York?
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There is no EPL championship unless you are confusing it with the FA Cup, but yeah, you would have a shit-ton of hooligans both up in arms as well as invading our soil if they ever proposed any such venue change.


edit: from what I have read chances of getting a SB ticket are just as slim in the US as they would be in GB or anywhere else.
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Frankly, I could care less where it played, I'd never waste my money on going to it. I haven't watch it in years because I usually work saturday and sunday.

 
I can't believe they are seriously considering this and so many people think it's a good idea. What the hell? It's America's sport. I dunno...there's just so many things wrong with playing the superbowl in london I don't know where to start.

DEY...TUK...OUR...JAERBS
 
Visit London, the capital's official visitor organisation, confirmed that it was pursuing a long-term ambition to bring the Super Bowl to the city.
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"It continues to be something we discuss on a regular basis, without there being any specific timetable or plan in place." The venues for the next three Super Bowls have already been decided with Dolphin Stadium in Florida, Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Texas and the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indiana putting together successful bids.
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However, if London is to host one of the biggest sporting events in the world, it will not be for quite some time.
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Just bs and conjecture, there's no plans, no bids, nothing but the equivalent of someone wistfully building a Bugatti Veyron on the configuratior website.

The BBC official story doesn't put the minor wordplay and spin on it and I got a completely different view on the issue.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/h...n_football/8016358.stm

 
Only if they improve the quality of the fields over there. The Giants played at Wembley on a rainy night two years ago, and the grass just could not stand up to an NFL game. Of course this is because the fields are designed for soccer, which is significantly less demanding on the surface than American football.
 
Originally posted by: BHeemsoth
Only if they improve the quality of the fields over there. The Giants played at Wembley on a rainy night two years ago, and the grass just could not stand up to an NFL game. Of course this is because the fields are designed for soccer, which is significantly less demanding on the surface than American football.
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No, it's nothing to do with being designed for a different kind of football. Even the English football people are complaining about the quality of the pitch, and they are having to replace it.
The pitch has never been considered good for anything.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/8017297.stm
 
Originally posted by: BHeemsoth
Only if they improve the quality of the fields over there. The Giants played at Wembley on a rainy night two years ago, and the grass just could not stand up to an NFL game. Of course this is because the fields are designed for soccer, which is significantly less demanding on the surface than American football.
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LOLWUT
 
I really wouldn't care, obviously as long as they show the game live. If they show the game starting at 6pm EST that would mean the game would have to start at 11pm in London...
 
Originally posted by: BHeemsoth
Only if they improve the quality of the fields over there. The Giants played at Wembley on a rainy night two years ago, and the grass just could not stand up to an NFL game. Of course this is because the fields are designed for soccer, which is significantly less demanding on the surface than American football.
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In addition it was foggy and rainy and made for an overall boring game (might've been the Dolphins too though 😛). If you can't pass and the field can't hold up then its not worth playing football (either definition) on.
 
Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
Originally posted by: BHeemsoth
Only if they improve the quality of the fields over there. The Giants played at Wembley on a rainy night two years ago, and the grass just could not stand up to an NFL game. Of course this is because the fields are designed for soccer, which is significantly less demanding on the surface than American football.
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LOLWUT
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Oh God... another soccer fanboi...
 
Originally posted by: toekramp
Perhaps because it's an American game with no foreign teams. It's the NATIONAL football league. How do you think it'd go over if they held the Premier League Championship in New York?
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Wow, you almost quoted Kornheiser word for word there.

Real fans rarely get to go the Super Bowl in the US anyway, it's all media, celebrities, plus corporate bigwigs and sponsors. The event is much bigger than the actual game these days and I bet over half the people at the Super Bowl each year are watching their first game of the season. In other words, it does not really matter where it's played.

KT
 
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