London has launched an audacious bid to stage the Super Bowl within the next eight years, a move that would see the United States’ biggest sporting event played overseas for the first time, the Sunday Telegraph has reported.
According to the newspaper, representatives from the Mayor of London’s office and Visit London, the city’s official visitor organization, have received assurances from the National Football League of a commitment to hold the event in London.
The NFL has already staged two sellout regular-season games at Wembley Stadium, with a third scheduled for this October.
“We are looking at 2014, 2015 or 2017,” David Hornby, the commercial director for Visit London was quoted as saying.
Talks have been ongoing with the NFL, which has identified London as the outstanding candidate city to host the event outside of the United States, according to the report.
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No f’n way.
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…but they’ll probably do it. Ugh.
why?
Count the money and damn the hometown fans.
Globalization at it’s worst!
We don’t want it either!
In the UK, we define ‘football’ as a game where the ball is largely controlled by feet.
Your game does not fit that description.
So, what, it’ll start about midnight local time and end around 4 A.M.? Brilliant. Let’s have the Super Bowl on the moon instead. I hear NASA still has the studio where they filmed the moon landings in the 60’s. At least the SFX will be better now.
Wait, London is in the running, but New York, DC, Boston, Chicago, etc… can’t get the Super Bowl. The NFL is going straight down the toilet.
No. This would damage the game at home too much to seriously think about. The Superbowl isn’t a game. It is a national event
#10 “Lot of arrogance on this board…precisely what Obama apologized for…” How would you like if we held the Cricket Championships or the Premiere League Championship in Cleveland? Stupid idea.
I could give a shit. Happy, Alfred1?
I think that like many regular Super Bowl watchers will not watch any of it should it be held outside of the US.
As long as there’s still plenty of hard-core nudity during the half-time show.
This all ties in together with the secret snooping the Brits are planning. Get the secret snooping fully in operation, then get as many Americans as they can to show up and collect data… at which point they can hand it back over to the CIA/NSA/NFL.
The Super Bowl will be held outside the United States when Alfred1 wins an argument here, or stops spewing poison in multiple consecutive posts. Go get a life and quit posting from Mom’s basement, her bills are already too large.
Citizen of the world my butt.
Mr. Fusion has it right.
Who cares where they play it? The Super Bowl has been priced out of the reach of the average fan for years anyway. Attending the game is more about the parties and “being seen.” If you want to watch it, you do it from the comfort of your living room so it doesn’t matter where the actual game is played…as long as it isn’t at three in the morning.
I don’t watch football or any sports for that matter so I could careless. BUT if the fans for the game are mostly in the U.S. why in the hell would you play the game over in Britain?
So they would have to play the game in the middle of the night there.
Makes sense. When exhibition or regular games have been played there, tickets sell out quickly. By that fact, it is evident it is popular in the U.K.
The location of the Super Bowl is absolutely irrelevant to me.
I couldn’t tell you where the last one was. Florida, maybe?
Alfred you are an idiot. This has nothing to do with USAians wnating for hoard the game or anyone having a problem with other countries.
This is the championship game of the NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE. The nation in question is the United States of America.
Well I suppose some U.S. city will have to try and outbid London.
Damn NFL…. they’re just a bunch of evil Capitalists. 🙂
Alfred, a few years ago we had someone named David from NYC posting on here. Would that be you per chance? I thought I recognized the insanity.
I thought you had been banned for total irrelevancy.
It should be limited to countries where they actually play football. Will there be riots when the hooligans who expect a soccer game get to learn a bit of butt-kicking culture?
Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the timezones? Evening in the UK is mid-afternoon on the US East Coast, and late morning on the West Coast.
PS: weird how people still associate the UK with hooliganism. There hasn’t been a major incident for at least 15 years, while there’s more violence in places like Italy, Australia, and even Israel (e.g. recent attacks on fans of one team).
HE to the rescue!
(let’s hope)
Alfred, do you know what NFL football is called in the rest of the world?
When you learn this, you’ll see how irrelevant your comments are on this subject.
#35, 888: I’m pretty sure Alfred1’s being what he thinks is “satirical”, or even farcical. It’s actually fairly funny in a way.
I’d be afraid that those big UK women would start grazing on the field.
#38 Do not worry about British women. There are few that can compare to your ones. Apparently, we don’t get enough HFCS in our diet here!