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re: Why are they playing an NFL game in Sao Paulo?
Posted on 9/6/24 at 11:37 am to Fun Bunch
Posted on 9/6/24 at 11:37 am to Fun Bunch
The one area where MLB and the NBA have bested the NFL is expanding the game globally. In addition to the Carribean, baseball is big in Asian counties like Japan and Korea. So much so that there are multiple star players in the MLB from Asia. The NBA is becoming more of an international league every year. Hell, the last 6 MVP award winners have been foreign born players.
Football (as we know it) is still very much an exclusively American sport. Yes, there are a relatively small % of fans in Europe. But not much. A greater worldwide customer base = larger pool of revenue.
Football (as we know it) is still very much an exclusively American sport. Yes, there are a relatively small % of fans in Europe. But not much. A greater worldwide customer base = larger pool of revenue.
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Posted on 9/6/24 at 12:36 pm to ghost2most
Actually it is more dangerous
Posted on 9/6/24 at 12:39 pm to Slippy
Globalism
Posted on 9/6/24 at 12:41 pm to Slippy
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Why are they playing an NFL game in Sao Paulo?
Money
Posted on 9/6/24 at 12:42 pm to Slippy
Short answer: Money
Long answer: NFL wants more money.
Really long answer: NFL wants more money by getting people in other counties interested in American football; to make more money.
Long answer: NFL wants more money.
Really long answer: NFL wants more money by getting people in other counties interested in American football; to make more money.
Posted on 9/6/24 at 12:45 pm to Slippy
According to the NFL, it has the 2nd highest number of NFL fans in the world behind Mexico (obviously not including US).
Posted on 9/6/24 at 12:53 pm to Slippy
It's a great way to grow the sport globally. South America makes more sense than Europe because they're on the same time zones.
I can't wait.
I can't wait.
Posted on 9/6/24 at 1:01 pm to turnpiketiger
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I hate the NFL. It’s money money money. How can we suck the most money out of everything? The games are boring as hell. There’s like 4 stadiums that are consistently loud Chiefs, Bills, Steelers and Cleveland. The rest are corporate drags
Don’t watch?
Posted on 9/6/24 at 1:21 pm to Slippy
My favorite out of the country one was in Mexico the first time. Some of the crowd didn't understand the game. They loved when they kicked field goals. 
Posted on 9/6/24 at 7:32 pm to Jor Jor The Dinosaur
The NBC announcers all sound tired and uncomfortable. Even the fine-as-wine Kaylee Hartung looks like she’s miserable. Her eyebrows did not get the attention they require.
Posted on 9/6/24 at 7:33 pm to Slippy
These announcers are total shite
Posted on 9/6/24 at 8:11 pm to Slippy
It's pretty easy if you think about it.
How do you grow a product that is pretty much at peak popularity in the US?
It's a company like any other and one of the only ways left for it to grow is to expand globally.
How do you grow a product that is pretty much at peak popularity in the US?
It's a company like any other and one of the only ways left for it to grow is to expand globally.
Posted on 9/6/24 at 10:25 pm to ghost2most
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Is it really any more dangerous than New Orleans, Baltimore, Philly, Cleveland?
In some ways yes and in some ways no. Sao Paulo is by far not the worst of Brazilian cities and not horrible, given that it has over 20 million inhabitants.
In all of Brazil the favelas aka informal housing developments are more dangerous to an American than any hood in the US.
Like most cities stay where you are supposed to be as a tourist and you are likely to just see petty crime at the worst. I doubt there were many US fans that traveled there though.
I don't have any issue with international games, I always think it is interesting watching the fans. The atmosphere in Dublin for the GT v FSU game was great. If you didn't know better your ears would have told you it was at Doak. Brazilians are some of the most rabid sports fans on the planet so if they get the American football bug it would indeed mean money.
This post was edited on 9/6/24 at 10:44 pm
Posted on 9/6/24 at 10:30 pm to Slippy
Duplicate post
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This post was edited on 9/6/24 at 10:32 pm
Posted on 9/6/24 at 10:31 pm to Slippy
quote:
Why are they playing an NFL game in Sao Paulo?
M
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(Same exact reason as with literally everything else in life .)
Posted on 9/6/24 at 10:33 pm to Slippy
Do you know how all of this works? Its all based on the amount of viewers. More eyes means more you can charge advertisers. And that's not what it looks like everywhere.
Posted on 9/6/24 at 10:35 pm to POTUS2024
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Money and woke virtue signaling. The NFL stopped being about football some time ago.
People who say this shite didn't really watch it in the first place. I watch the NFL every week and I never feel like there is some political agenda.
Posted on 9/6/24 at 10:40 pm to Slippy
My wife was in Sao Paulo week before last. She and her team (3 in total) were picked up by two armed bodyguards and a bullet-proof limo to go from the airport to the W Hotel. The next day, the same took them to their meetings. She and the other two are global execs at a top 50 company, perfect targets for kidnap and ransom. She was not happy about having meetings there.
Posted on 9/6/24 at 10:43 pm to Cosmo
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Not a crime ridden 3rd world shithole that throws you in jail for free speech stuff
Well they already have a foothold in California...so might as well try for another?
Posted on 9/7/24 at 12:21 am to Slippy
The crowd was dull
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