We have one of the greatest sports in the world. The sport requires you to either be superhumanly fast, superhumanly strong, or superhumanly agile to play the game at a top level. We've sent many athletes from our sport over to the Olympics and other sports World Cups/World Championships. Some have even won gold medals. We have the greatest athletes in the world. Randy Moss, Brian Urlacher, Steve Smith, Roy Williams, Sean Alexander, Jevon Kerse, and Ladamian Tomlison. Unfortunatley, nobody in the rest of the world knows about these athletes.
However, they know about our other athletes like Lebron James, Kevin Garnett, Shaq, Tracy Mcgrady Mike Madano, Alex Rodriguez and Brett Hull, but yet none of those men can even compare to those other athletes in athleticism.
We've successfully put MLB on the mainstream in the world, as we did to the NHL and the NBA, but we've yet to put the NFL on the world scene, other than the NFLE crap, what can we do to internationalize the game
2006-09-19 12:33:23 · 3 answers · asked by enigma_frozen 4 in Sports ➔ Football (American)
One suggestion I think would be to give the game a different name internationally. People would just think our game is just a local phenomenon if we call it "American football", so a good idea would be to call it "Gridiron" in international circles. In Ozland, it's already known as such. Also for the NFL to have open leauges all over the world.
We could try turning NFLE from a closed league to an open league and have the best teams in the open leagues be invited to play in NFLE.
2006-09-19 12:36:51 · update #1
I complement your high ambition but in reality I don't think the talent pool is deep enough to retain the quality of the game if expanded to the scale of your vision. Great coaches and skill players take a long time to develop and teams require $$$ in their budgets equivalent to some countries GDP and FRANKLY a lot of athletes just aren't tough enough to play football. (Soccer fans feel free to insert your whine here!)
2006-09-25 13:34:16 · answer #1 · answered by Norman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The greatest athletes in the world? Those fat linemen? And you';re using that goof Roy Williams as an example among those other very good NFL players? Come on! I think NFL players are great but hockey players are much more physically fit and skilled being able to do what they do on skates.
MLB has not been all that successful overseas. It's been good but nowhere near as popular as the NBA globally as far as expanding its fan base beyond Canada (where's it's not really popular as Ottawa just lost the last remaining Canadian-based AAA team and the Expos moved), Latin America and the Korea-Japan-Taiwan axis.
The NFL I can never see being a global game as it's way too specialized and its rules are complicated. Don't get me wrong, it's great to watch but, for example, soccer, as boring as it is, is popular because it's simple. Most people (i.e., the masses) are simple thus soccer is massively popular. It's the perfect Third World sport.
Popularity is not necessarily a good thing or a goal for anything of quality. I'll take good over popular any day.
2006-09-19 22:30:04 · answer #2 · answered by fugutastic 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No one cares to answer this dumba** question.
2006-09-21 11:09:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋