American reacts to why American Football Failed in Europe

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[conallmclaughlin]

More people watch the tour de France than the super bowl.. That's how exciting it is to us

[lewilewis]

Fun fact; of the 5 hours of coverage this past super bowl, 18 minutes were of actual game play. It's just a platform for selling shit.
This Saturday night in the UK we have the return of Premier League Football on the BBC's Match Of The Day. Highlights of every game and zero commercials. That's the difference.

[martynnotman]

American football is all stop/start, seemingly inexiplicable changes of personel every 5 minutes, rules that make even less sense than cricket and lots of shouting and noise. And its frankly a bit boring to watch on tv.

[missgranger]

Remember, Europe loves its local clubs with local history. A lot of football clubs were in industrial towns, it was the sport of the coal miners for example in France, UK, Germany, Belgium... Same story with rugby, local tradition for example in Basque country. American football can't compete with tradition.

[seanthiar]

The problem in general is that sport in the USA is not sport - it is an advertisement show with sport breaks that have advertisement. No matter which sport event in USA TV you watch it is only 10% sport and 90% adverts. And the NFL is more extreme - for 15min American football you get hours of adverts and other stuff. And if you think about the final - the most interesting part for most people is the halftime show and not who wins or plays. In contrast you have 45min game without any break in real football, 15 min halftime analysis of the first half and then 45 more minutes of the game. And a sport news show will go an hour only about sport with only a few seconds long ads.

[philbaker]

Its simple ITS BORING ....THEY SPEND SO MUCH TIME HANGING ABOUT DOING NOTHING

[markaitcheson]

Reason, it's boring Americans think scoring equals excitement which is incorrect, American sports has zero passion it's all about money, the sports have no history ive heard American fans say they go to games not caring who wins just to see a good game that makes no sense, the fact the superbowl is more famous for the halftime show than the game says it all really, and we have rugby where they don't hide behind helmets and pads.

[linkouf]

Why would Europeans be interested in American football when we have Rugby ?

[ataksnajpera]

American football is like that video game where there is more cut scenes than actual gameplay.

[gagada]

Went to an "American football game" when I last visited the States. It was the most boring afternoon of my life. Three hours in the stadium for about 15 minutes of running "rugby". Terrible!

[jakubosiejewski]

One reason why American sports fail in Europe is that you guys have a thing for winning and measurable results, you want your games to have a lot of points, analyze what happened, .

In the real football people can watch 90 minutes of a game that ends with 0-0 and still say it was a great game

[Shytot-]

When you need cheerleaders to give the fans something to see every 5 seconds when the game stops, tells you all you need to know about American football.

[DooMx]

We even don't make fun of it. We don't care. That's all.

[zak]

Because it's not a sport.

Like everything America calls "sports", they're actually entertainment not sports, and they are entirely designed around this principle. It's all about selling entertainment (and advertising and hot dogs) to the masses. American football and baseball and whatnot are really not that much different from WWF wrestling in terms of being an honest sporting contest and participatory pastime rather than a marketing opportunity.

If I lived in a little American town, could my town win a Superb Owl? No. Because we couldn't play in one. You have to be a rich millionaire to purchase a franchise to play in it.
If I live in a little Engish town, could my town win the FA Cup? Yes. If we form a football team (it could be just me and my mates!) and we win all our games, we could win it, even though we are nobodies from nowhere. Are we _likely_ to win? Of course not! It would be the worldwide shock of the century! But the reason why we would fail to win is based around sporting competition, not whether we are corporate investors in an entertainment business.

(That's not to say that in European football, for instance, there aren't people who _de facto_ act like corporate investors in an entertainment business. There's loads of them! But the basic structure of the sport is still based around participation and competitive sporting principles, with the other stuff tacked on top. It's not gone: "Yeah, let's just make it official that we're essentially just an entertainment industry." like American football, for instance.)

[general_LLNN]

"Munich crowd sings take me home" is honestly not that big as you think it is, the song is still today probably the most popular country song outside the USA

[gerardryan]

Its a 60 minute game that takes 3 hours to play and has 10 minutes of anything actually happening. Thats why.

[stevefoulston]

Just maybe this is the reason American NFL games are scheduled to be played in one hour but usually go on for much longer - the average NFL game takes 3 hours and 12 minutes from start to finish while the average college football game takes 3 hours and 24 minutes to be completed According to recent studies, the ball is in play on the field for just between 15 and 20 minutes in an average football game. There are 55 players on an NFL team's roster, with 53 on the active roster. On game day, however, just 48 players dress. Before the game, each team's 11 starting players on the field are announced. The 48-man team is a welcome change for the NFL, as only 46 players could suit up on game day for quite a while. Then again you'll watch NASCAR races going around in a oval track for hours this is just plane silly. Peace out.

[bookllama]

Germans don’t play a lot of rugby and cricket, that’s the UK. Other popular team sports in Germany are handball, basketball, and volleyball.

we watch real football playing with feets

[michaelpearl-rw]

In the 1980s European football was just as big as it is now, it just wasn't as rich. There hadn't yet been the influx of billionaire investors thinking they could make even more money than they already had, Inthe1980s football was still a game of the working classes and your average fan could afford to attend all the games they wanted unlike now.