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As a British American Football fan and player. You did a great job explaining the growth of the NFL abroad however you failed to mention there initiative in Europe for creating a High school team called the NFL Academy who have gained 15+ players, NCAA D1 scholarships over just a 3 year existence, and with more scholarships coming day by day as college coaches start to find out about us (NFL Academy). Not to mention the players we have sent to colleges in Canada and Mexico as well as players who have gone on to play in professional leagues across Europe, which brings me onto my next point. You also didn’t mention the big leagues in Europe who are doing a great job in growing the game and therefore the NFL internationally, the two big leagues are called the German Football League (GFL) and the European League of Football (ELF), The GFL has been around for years, growing to have a huge loyal fan base in Germany, making American football one of there top sports, behind Soccer ⚽️. The ELF is a brand new league, in its second season now, and is a league which has teams from all over Europe and is expanding in size week by week, I recommended you look into both of these leagues as it really does show how the game of football is growing internationally in Europe. Finally you can also look at the grass root teams in all countries for football, such as BAFA in the UK, which isn’t the best of all leagues but it gets 100s if not 1000s of british kids into the game every year, many of which have gone on to play at the NFL academy or other high school teams in the UK such as Filton Pride, and then gone on to play in the US across many levels. High school football seems to be the answer to growing the sport internationally and getting more international players into the league, the top high school (u19)teams in Europe include The NFL Academy, Düsseldorf Panthers, RIG Academy, Filton Pride and many others, which i recommend you look into as they have sent players to top schools in the US and have developed players who are playing in All-American Games. Another person who is doing bits for the games growth, not just in Europe but internationally is Brandon Collier of PPI Recruits, his company is from Germany and focuses on taking the top high school talent from across the globe to the US and competing in camps in order to gain scholarships, he has gotten 100s of kids D1 scholarships from Europe, Australia and most recently Africa over around a 5 year span. To show his power and reach, it is important we highlight one kid called Momo Cissokho, from Senegal, without playing a snap of football in his life or ever even wearing a set of pads and helmet, Brandon has gotten him a Scholarship from The University of Oregon, have i mentioned he hasn’t even ever stepped foot in The US, but a football powerhouse has offered him a scholarship, this is crazy and shows the reach and trust US colleges have in Brandon and his players. Wether it’s growing the game at the high school level or professional level, Europe seems to be doing a great job at it as of recent, and i just wanted to highlight this as you failed to mention it, however great video as always mate, good watch.
I'm 22 and live in Brazil, I have been watching the NFL for about 6 years now and I can personally say it was grown A LOT around here, I think Brazil is in the top 3 of American Football fans outside of the US and now some national leagues are starting to slowly develop. With games now being held in Germany, I think Brazil could very well be the next in line for an international game, would be a dream come true to watch a NFL game in person
I'm an Australian Vikings supporter. For most of my life, the only American sport I cared about was basketball. I had no interest NFL. That all changed after watching some full NFL games during 2018, I picked up a mild interest in the sport. I watched more and more games over the years, became more and more into the sport. Something about it is so interesting to me. I do hope it can grow more, the only person I can talk to about the NFL is my dad, and he's a Bears supporter!
It’s such a unique sport. Maybe not the best, but it’s literally like 2 different armies marching down field. It’s so orderly yet so chaotic that it feels like no other sport in the world.
Same here! I hopped in a fantasy league start of last season since I already do NBA and AFL fantasy, drafted whatever names I already knew, and watched games just to see how my players were doing. Next thing you know, every Monday I’m watching games all day while working from home. Should’ve got into it earlier, it’s fantastic watching NFL during the AFL offseason. Decided to go for the Bills because my fantasy QB was Josh Allen and I already go for the Knicks, so might as well keep it in the same state. Lots of my mates are getting into it these days as well. It’ll never be a dominant sport down here, but 10 years ago you would’ve got laughed out of a room for suggesting people should watch NFL, Kayo being so accessible has made things come a long way
Australian giants fan here, getting involved in the online community kept me interested, and I love reading up on what's new with the Giants and the league.
There’s actually a new European league now which features some Teams from the NFL Europe like Berlin Thunder, Hamburg Sea Devils and Frankfurt Galaxy. We even have an ex NFL Headcoach (Jim Tomsula), who coaches Rhein Fire. I think that plays into growing the game especially here in Germany but also other European countries like Poland and Spain (they also have teams). The league has just started its second season and already experienced growth with more teams joining and attendance as well as tv audience increasing
I’ve never understood why the pro bowl is never played in London. It’s perfect. There are many different fans of many different teams in Europe so getting a chance to bring the best of the best from around the league to play and mingle with fans sounds like the best way to reach audiences. Plus everyone loves a trophy ceremony.
A lot of people have been mentioning the ELF and the GFL, but I haven't seen many people mentioning the X-league, a 51 year old Japanese Gridiron Football league. Their website claims that their level of play is comparable to that of the CFL (I'm not sure if that's true or not). They limit teams to 4 foreign-born players, with no more than 2 on the field at once, so it's almost entirely compromised of homegrown talent. There's a few Americans in the X-League. In 2020, former UC Davis QB Jimmy Laughrea led the Obic Seagulls to a Championship, and in 2021 former Wake Forest LB Jaboree Williams was the X1 Super (top division in the x-league) MVP.
im 16 and i live in australia. my dad was born in australia as well but spent a good chunk of his childhood living in canada and san diego so we are big chargers supporters. even though we love the sport hardly anyone at my school knows the rules give or take the few steelers supporters i know. long story short i hope some of these ideas become a reality as i would really love to openly talk about the sport with people
one of the reasons I think it has so far struggled to take off is the complexity of the game and associated costs with all the equipment, when you compare to football and rugby require basically just a ball and you can just say go run at each other. Further, it also doesn't help that contact sport's popularity, in general, is declining due to popularity.
this is the issue with my local international club, reusing the same decade old equipment because we can’t really afford much else, as long as we’re kitted out and hitting blokes we’re happy though
Honestly I disagree on the contact sports part. We humans have always been drawing to violence. Even "peaceful" countries like Spain with its Bull Runs or Eglish Rugby or Roman Gladiators, people just like seeing other people get hurt
I 100% agree with your first point, but rugby is actually one of the fastest growing sports in the world. I think all the equipment and the necessity for lots of players is the biggest problem. The popularity of rugby 7’s especially really shows that I think.
@@ezraclarke4288 fair, im just talking from a southern hemisphere perspective, NZ and AUS rugby has died outside of intl rugby, the total number of plays has declined vastly with the knowledge of head injuries and increasing things to do that don't involve getting whacked haha
@@ezraclarke4288 I think honestly rugby is the other issue with a lot of markets that would be open to american football...they already have something that fills the niche of contact sports so looking at american football its just not that enticing.
As an Australian NFL fan, I would really love to see the game grow in popularity over here. There are many people aware of the sport but not many people who actually follow a team or follow players of the sport. Hopefully, with the greater emphasis on NFL's international marketing, the sport will grow in popularity over here.
The European League of Football (ELF) is a new interesting try to implement football in Europe. This league could grow a lot of possible pathway players and spread interest in the sport around Europe. The NFL should look for cooperation with the ELF. A naturally grown league with homegrown players you can identify with is probably the most promissing way of implementing the sport in Europe, even though it is hard to compete with other sports that are older and have more history than the US itself. You should look into that
French fan here ! Can't wait for it to develop worldwide, European Football is in dire need of serious competition. Even though Gridiron Football will always be my favourite : so many different athletic profiles, as violent as it is smart, the combine, the draft, college football, salary cap, the hype, the drama... can't beat that !
I really love the idea of Flag Football as an Olympic sport. Since Olympic athletes are in incredible as well as super athletic shape, it could make for a more fair playing field for other countries than just the USA to compete and win. You'd also definitely grow the sport a bunch and get more kids to watch and get into the NFL.
As an NFL fan from Melbourne (Australia) I would definitely say the game is growing, albeit slowly. I wouldn't worry about people not taking to a team in their market, I'm a passionate Packer fan but I and all my mates would most definitely switch if a team was put in Melbourne.
Unfortunately, with current air travel, Australia is just too far away. That flight is brutal. Now if Elon Musk is ever able to make Starship do what he wants, it wouldn't matter where in the world a team is with a flight time of only about 30 minutes. The technology will be there one of these days.
It should be a European division. Let teams go there for a tour of games and have that division come to the US for a tour of games. That would make the travel less impactful and give the European market home teams that play American teams.
@@bobartbones7957There definitely is. There are 250+ college prospects coming out a year, it'll impact the play for about 2 years, but it'll all even out after a while. And if there's nfl teams in europe/africa, then local colleges will be WAY more inclined to consider adding a football program
The NFL does a piss poor job at player development in general. European football clubs (whether big or small) have their own academies where kids (both local and international) can develop into first team stars. The only way to internationalize the NFL would be to start making their own academies. But the NCAA does this for free and the owners wouldn't want to actually pony up the money to build their own developmental league. You would have to start training these kids when they're 13 - 15 years old and most of them wouldn't make it to the pros.
@@kman9884 yes they are competitors. But the CFL acts as the de facto minor league, while college would be the developmental league. I can name 6 players off the rip that were top prospects or players last season that are now on an NFL team this summer and the only team I follow are the Bombers.
i think the more international players the NFL can get, that’s gonna determine their success abroad. One of the main reasons the NBA has been able to succeed in Europe and Asia is guys like Yao Ming, Dirk, Luka, and Jokic becoming household names.
Speaking of expanding American Football worldwide presence, I remember when we had Eyeshield 21 Anime broadcasted in our national TV and we had the closest thing to American Football boom here in Indonesia (Hell, I and my schoolmates played some kind of bare(st)-bone American Football before the teacher stopped us for messing with the school infrastructure). Of course, the biggest challenge of spreading American Football presence worldwide is the accessibility. Sports that can be easily played in an empty lot are more popular here (like Associate Football/Futsal and Badminton). This is coming from someone who watch more American Football more than any other sports thanks to RU-vidrs like you.
Top 10 places the NFL should consider hosting games: -Paris, France -Rio de Janero, Brazil -Beijing, China -Shanghai, China -Berlin, Germany -Tokyo, Japan -Guadalajara, Mexico -San Juan, Puerto Rico -Madrid, Spain -Barcelona, Spain Honorable Mentions: -Sydney, Australia -Seoul, South Korea -New Delhi, India -Johannesburg, South Africa -Lagos, Nigeria -Moscow, Russia
I think they would rather play in São Paulo, since the place has more history with the sport than us in Rio. Unless you count beach gridiron as a thing.
I'm an Australian fan of the NFL and I only know 2 other people who also watch it Even tho Basketball became insanely popular over the last few years. However, If they could introduce football at a high school level it could take of.
I'm a fan of both football and basketball from Poland. Your comment proves one of the points brought up in he video, amount of international players has grown in the NBA a last couple of years and many new players came from Australia (Josh Giddey as one of the better examples), so it's not strange that there are more fans in Australia now (also success on last Olympic games). Also if they were to introduce football at high school level it'd probably be flag football as people wouldn't be ready to let their kids play such contact sport out of nowhere, but I guess it'd still be better than nothing.
@@alexszczesnowicz7483 considering the amount of people (including myself) who play rugby and Aussie rules football in Australia I don't think football being a contact sport will hold it back. However, you are right Australians in the NBA have helped basketball become more popular here
I live in Australia and have been an nfl/broncos fan since 2010! what got me started is from 2010-2015 my job had a 4 day week (every monday off) and for us NFL is played early monday morning. I know Australia is a small market but until people have a way to watch live games at a different time it will just be a handful of us!
David Ojabo, who just got drafted to Baltimore from Michigan, is originally from Africa and moved to Scotland. He also moved to the US in his high school days to play ball. Ojabo then became a star last year at Michigan
I‘am a 49ers Fan from Germany for over a decade now. I‘ve seen a couple of games in London and I‘m glad that the European League of Football is growing. Today I‘ll visit the Rhein Fire Game with their Head Coach Jim Tomsula and as much as I disliked him in San Francisco, I‘m extremely happy to see such a guy in Düsseldorf. But I have more faith in the future of this league because it is mostly independet from the NFL. Hopefully we will find our european way. Guys, greetings from Germany. Football is family! 😄
I'll say this whilst generally more people here in Europe keep up with Basketball than American Football, I can't emphasise *enough* how much easier it is to watch NFL games. I live in the UK the the Sunday games start at 6pm 9:15pm and 1:20am and Monday/Thursday games also at 1:20am Aside from Sunday games you're lucky in the UK if a NBA game starts at 11pm and the UK timezone wise is even the best placed in Europe (aside from Iceland) but for sure the game profile is growing here more people are definitely watching and there more coverage now than its ever been Also as Rugby is popular here there's some interchangeable aspect of Rugby and American Football and I think the growth can be sustainable plus once people get past the part that you don't really play the game with your foot it's genuinely an interesting game to watch
I don't think content creators like Pat McAfee, UrinatingTree, Tom Grossi, etc. get enough credit for growing fan interest in the NFL. The NFL tries to push their league through constant ads and marketing, but many fans nowadays find the NFL through the RU-vid algorithm recognizing these creators, and curious viewers learning more and eventually becoming interested in football after watching these content creators videos
11:42 Jordan Mailata didn’t choose tackle he thought he was gonna be a running back. They just put him at tackle and asked him if he has seen the movie to help him understand what a tackle was
The allienz arena is perfect for a football game especially with its high tech stadium and passionate atmosphere. Bayern fans are some of the most passionate fans in Germany so I’m interested to see how it will be for the hawks game
@@reverseflash882 mate there are about 5-10 Fan scenes in Germany which are much more passionate, Bayern has a lot of tourists and plastic fans in their stadium who just show up cause they are good
@@danielfrohlich6362 I’ve been to the allienz arena before and I can confidently say that it was very loud and passionate inside sure they may not be like some other fan bases but they are still good
Excellent take and research! Football's weaknesses go beyond the complex playbooks and specialized equipment you mention. We American fans, who cannot escape the game or the NFL, have learned to accept other flaws like over-reliance on the QB position (my team ran the ball for nearly 300 yards in week 3 and won, but the first two hours of media/fan reaction were ENTIRELY about the poor QB play) , constant injuries, and long pauses in game action, but to a big enough international audience those might offset the struggle and big plays that are football's strengths.
Unironically this is one of the most enjoyable channels I watch. Not my favorite, but any time I’m bored and see a video by you I haven’t watched I’m always like “well this will probbaly be good and definitely be great background noise”
I’m Australian who’s loved the game for over 20 years Can say for a fact the game is growing here and growing fast As more and more punters are going over to play collage and NFL the game had exploded due to exposure resulting in non punters going over There is even talks to create a national league here now So really good times
Is it though? Basketball and baseball have more of a pull internationally, I've never met an Australian who gives a shit about American football, Rugby is way more superior!!
@@nataliekhanyola5669 Current Players in the in the NFL from Australia : 8 Players from Australia in the NFL in 2010: 1 Current Australia Players in FBS Div 1: 60+ Australia players in FBS Div 1 in 2010: less than 10 Super bowl TV Audience for 2023: 1.8 Million Super Bowl TV Audience for 2010: 390,000 Now this is what we call “growth”, nowhere did i say American football was bigger than any sport played in Australia all I said it is growing which it is.
As a european fan, I know this is 99% being done for the money, but putting this much money and effort into growing this awesome sport internationally has to be applauded.
@261i7 Fake football is popular because sadly, much of the world has not yet heard of real football! but thankfully, we are heading to the olympics in 2028, and the NFL will in a couple year also expand with a european divisions, including such already popular teams such as the Rhein Fire or Frankfurt Galaxy:)
I think the reality is that the NFL is the most ‘American’ of the leagues - most people here in Europe just don’t relate with a lot of the things in the league (draft, salary cap), especially the massive advertisement/consumerism. For most people who are football(soccer) fans the constant breaks with ads just don’t work.
@@rimgar7013 I’m european and I acquired the NFL and american football taste to the point of absolutely loving it, but boy do I HATE the constant commercial breaks lol.
I understand from a financial standpoint why the NFL want to becoming a global sport and is staging international games,Soccer league in Europe are doing the same thing here in America. I liked that Football is or was a purely American sport like AFL is an Australian sport.
As a Canadian the NFL does know that the only team that has consistently been playing in Canada, for some years now, has been the Buffalo Bills. Not the Seahawks and Vikings....
As a British die-hard Niners fan - I will categorically not shift support to Jacksonville. Can you blame me? A London team I'd support, but not above my Niners. Also, the biggest barrier to the sport growing over this side of the pond is the technicality of the rules. I had to trawl youtube and it wasn't until I made friends with some Yanks through uni I got it.
My idea would be to have regional leagues in different parts of the globe (set up like the nfl right now) where every region will have its own version of the "super bowl", and then have a playoff system from there to determine the world champion.
The problem is right now, the NFL champ would easily stomp everyone else by 10 touchdowns, and it wouldn't be close. Hell the worst NFL team would easily stomp the best team from every region.
London is a nightmare because of distance, but why not just have a team in Toronto or hell, be the first American sports team to try their hand at Monterrey. Trust me, the fan base is certainly there, and it's only an hour flight from Houston, all things considered, it's certainly a way to go.
Great to have another STE video just in time for me waking up at 1 am. 😂 (this really long af 😭 never asked for a pin before, but maybe one could lead to good discussion on this?) Having been an NFL fan for years now, but as of the past 8 months getting more and more into Association Football/Soccer, I have a somewhat interesting perspective on the NFL and the culture of global sports in general as my horizons have expanded and why I think the NFL has struggled to match the popularity of the other form of Football or gain any global popularity in general, outside of the usual reason of accessibility and safety. For obvious reasons, I'll be mainly comparing the NFL to the world's most popular sport, Soccer/Football. There are TWO key differences in sports culture amongst the two that I think keep the NFL from truly being able to breakthrough in Europe & other continents. #1. This is not a political statement, this is not my opinion, but part of what English, Spanish, German and so on sports fans hate the MOST about current changing Soccer landscape, is how certain things are becoming more American-ized, as American money becomes more prominent in the sport/clubs. In Soccer/Football, the culture is so counter-intuitive to what we have here in the states where everything is revenue-prioritized, capitalist-centric, glitz & glamour, corporitized and so on. The owners & wealthiest of players call the shots and the fans just have to go along with whatever it may be, because after all, they are ones with the big contracts and who owns the teams, right? That is seen as madness by basically the rest of the world (mostly). Soccer + other club sports outside of North America are first & foremost seen as entities prioritized for the FANS first and the amount of influence fans have over their clubs they support, leagues and the sport as a whole is far greater than what we have here, it's almost mind-boggling. Google or RU-vid search the 50+1 Rule in The Bundesliga as a prime example. In simple terms, it allows fans or "members" of a club to retain voting rights as financial investors cannot own a majority of the clubs shares and then push the fans & their influence out. As an American, learning of something like this blew my mind. Imagine fans having 50% of a say in operations of a team like the Patriots or Browns. Obviously there's restrictions in place, but things like this emphasize the culture of Soccer + club sports being way, way, WAY more fan-focused, tailored towards supporters & their interests above the "soul-less profit motive" you mention and so on, something the rest of the world benefits from, but not America, who tolerates or sometimes even downright supports shitty businessmen owning teams with greed in mind and no care for what supporters of a team care about. People in parts of Asia, South America and in particular Europe, just absolutely hate with a passion how American teams/leagues are operated and another good example are the Glazers. Owners of recent Super Bowl Champions (STE's favorite team) The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, also own one of the most storied franchises in all of world sports, Manchester United and it's been an absolute disaster between the Glazers and English fans as a whole, as they represent the American/NFL style of operation that the rest of the world just fucking hates and Man-UTD have absolutely floundered, in majority part because of the Glazers ownership. That's only half of the pie tho. #2. Now this will be political (kinda), but that whole "Shut Up And Dribble" or "Keep Politics Out Of Sports" shit we have here (in particular in the NFL), yeah nah, that's not how the rest of the world be doin things. That mentality is honestly fairly new and really only exists in countries like the US, Canada and somewhat the UK. And it's not because the rest of the global sporting culture is "Liberal" or on the "Left", sporting culture in the rest of the world just embraces & intertwines sports + the cultural landscape of a given region far, far, FAR more than we do here. Whether that be how Real Madrid vs Barcelona represents Conservative Spanish Nationalism vs Underdog Blue Collar Catalonia or PSG's rule over Ligue 1 represents Paris as the wealthy, bourgeois capital that many people in other parts of France oppose; Politics/socio-economic sentiments aren't shunned in sports culture like they are here, they're purposefully represented in the sporting culture in basically every other continent other than North America. Fans take pride in representing their beliefs through sport (search Beitar-Jerusalem 💀💀) and we just don't have it like that, in particular the NFL doesn't have it like that. I honestly personally feel these two cultural reasons represents just how worlds apart American Sports/NFL+MLB are compared to the rest of the planet, more so than any one safety, equipment access, rule reason ever could and it honestly feels like that these are the biggest hurdles, not whether or not kids have an adequate space to play hand egg safely. But what do I know... AM AMERICA MAN, PLEASE GIVE CHEEZBORGAR AND ONE TICKET TO THE RASCAL FLATTS CONCERT.
6:50 we also have a new league in Europe called the ELF with a few of the original team names, so even if it was a financial disaster it helped to popularise the sport in Europe
There are so many American cities that deserve a team over London. I hate how large cities can be seen as small market and only giant metropolises are considered good for a new team. To contrast this type of thinking, it seems like every tiny village in Europe has a professional or semi-professional soccer team. Why not grow football in the country it is the most popular in? Create new leagues and allow for smaller cities to get involved.
Brazil has had a steady and decent growth of the NFL and american football since the middle of the 00s (with many locals teams being built) but I think it's basically reached its ceilling. The audience of the NFL is essentially upper class men in their late 20s to early 40s but the sport is completely alien to the average citizen, it's just too complex for regular people to tune in and the game stops a lot. I'm saying this as someone who likes it but acknoledges that people can find it confusing and will prefer to watch the more free flowing and commercial free entertainment that soccer offers. The more global US league is by far the NBA and that's obvious, basketball is a more popular sport worldwide and even though it has its breaks due to timeouts it's still more free flowing, plus despite similar US dominance it has foreign stars while 99% of the NFL players are from the US.
Without promotion and relegation I don't see the NFL ever really taking over the world as to the rest of us it's insane there's no real stakes at the end of a season . Losing costs you nothing really unlike in soccer when you get kicked from the league down to a lower one
Football has become a year-round event, so having various leagues pop-up across the globe and participate in a world championship like the Champions League is something the NFL should most definitely establish in the next 20 years or so. You'd be surprised at how much lucrative influence the sport would draw for the impoverished communities, especially across Africa
Football is very expensive. But what they could do is have flag football leagues which is really cheap to play and top african colleges could have their own college programs funded by the nfl. This is probably only feasible in like Nigeria, South Africa, and maybe Sierra Leone, or in the EAF area with Tanzania, Rwanda, South Sudan, etc. I feel Nigeria and the EAF area are the most plausible by far though.
Live in EU. I usually watch them highlights since the games just are at a time where im most likely going to sleep or already sleeping. Have tried to watch some games live but damn there are so many stoppages therefore there are a shtload of commercials. Not used to that sht when u have crown up with football (soccer) and i always hated the commercial during movies on TV channels back in the day.
When you begin to grasp some of the nuances of American football, you begin to realize how strategic every chess piece is. The better you understand, the more fun it is to watch. Just pick a team! We accept all comers. My best advice for this year, become a Chargers fan.
I played American Football in Brasil, we where the 2nd or thrid marked of consumers of the league, we have a league who is trying to get more professional, if the league invest right now in infrastructure (Since every dolar cost about 5 reais) and development this could help the growth, and also a game played in Brasil , Maracanã in Rio, ou Allianz Arena in São Paulo, they will be sould out, no doubt about that.
We need more D2, D3 and maybe low end FCS to play games against champions from around the world. Would give them some better competition and bragging rights. Former college or NFL players going over to coach or act as basically a player coach would really help. The NFL can also give local leagues some extra cash so they can attract some borderline NFL talent.
Hear me out, yeah? What if they busted out the Concords again as the main means of transportation between EU-US for the players, staff and coaches? This would very easily eliminate the whole “having to travel 8-13 hours from X state to Y country in EU” problem. The Concord had one of, if not the cleanest safety records in history. I don’t see a reason why it wouldn’t be an option.
The Concord had numerous other problems before the crash that ulitmately killed it. Nobody wanted to hear sonic booms that could damage buildings, cars, and ear drums. The fuel for the supersonic jets is getting more and more expensive, and maintenance costs kept going up. Absolutely terrible idea.
The fact that gridiron football is played at any appreciable level in exactly two neighboring North American countries, and separate competition for women is almost nonexistent, makes the hope of Olympic candidacy look like utter insanity. I can't believe this is ever spoken about seriously by anyone.
@@c.j.3404 I was contemplating bringing up breakdancing. That by contrast is perhaps a rather silly inclusion, but not a completely nonviable one. The decision making process still isn't "fuck, why the hell not" just because something like breakdancing makes its way in.
@@c.j.3404 Basketball has certainly been completely transformed since then. But where it was before wasn't remotely comparable to where football is now, as dwarfing all other sports in the USA and lacking the participatory structure of even the most rudimentary international-competition sports anywhere else in the world but Canada. In fact, these global competitiveness standards are far more prominent and insisted upon than they were in the old days. If it were anywhere remotely close they'd be inclined to give it the benefit of the doubt, but it isn't. (Breakdancing, by the way, is *absurdly* global at this point in time.)
I'm from Australia and i can say NFL is somewhat popular here ( Basing off media coverage and friend groups). But it has nowhere near the popularity of basketball here. I think mainly down to that we have 3 Football codes here making it more confusing and the lack of overall advertisment/coverage on TV/cabel chanels
Look up Hero Kanu, he has SERIOUS potential to become Europe’s football star. Big, 6’5” 300lb defensive tackle from Germany who pursued football and became a 4-stat recruit who committed to Ohio State
I think they should try to have every team play an international game with the 17 game format. Add a game in Mexico and Germany, maybe an extra in England. But also add games elsewhere. Japan, Brazil, maybe China or Australia.
Despite being an American who loves football, I don’t see the Olympic thing paying off at all. Like if something as globally popular as Cricket can’t manage to be an Olympic sport more than once, I don’t think US football (flag or not) can gather enough support to have a legit shot.
I think cricket's not globally popular either, it has a following in some former British colonies (including India, which is what makes it look more popular than it is) and that's the people who try to spring it at other places, regardless of whether people care or not. Gridiron ain't much better but it's at least known in most places.
As a guy from Slovenia, I've been followin the NFL for the last 4 years and the rules of game itself are kind off complicated in comparision with (assosiacion) football, basketball, volleyball. Plus nobody wants to crack a skull/tibia during weekend
That is why the NFL is marketing flag football and the new fusion football less complicated and lower injury rates then Basketball and Association football
G'day Set The edge. I have a few points... Firstly to my Aussie NFL fans... If you have nobody to talk football too. Make a fan page or youtube page I promise you this you won't regret it. I talk Steelers every single day to the world now. 2nd point. I will personally never go watch A live NFL In Australia. To me the NFL games should be watched In well America. I love America and American football So I save my pennies and go to the States when I can to watch football. Steelers 🆚 Ravens Christmas day 2016. 3rd point great video. NFL is growing slowly here down under... however I'd love for the NFL to focus on America. International fans nothing better then seeing your first game. As you visit home for the 1st time. Cheers
As a non-American, I think the biggest challenge for the expansion of American football into (at least some) other countries is that in some of the main target countries (e.g. UK, France, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland etc) rugby is already popular and is "too similar" to American football. Rugby 7s (a smaller scale and faster pace version of rugby) is already an olympic sport and both the 7s and main versions are quickly growing in popularity in several countries (including the US). Rugby purists see American football as a "lesser" version of rugby and will likely never embrace American football.
Hmmm i guess. I think though. In order to make it sustainable and as widespread as possible. Get a football team in london (if they make a new team or move the jags) or Manchester (if they move the buccaneers), then get one somewhere in Germany, there are a decent amount of German football fans so that works. Then get a team in the Netherlands. And then maybe get a team in either North Africa or Spain
