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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the NFL is going to do showcase games in Europe, they should certainly choose better teams. I only watched the last ten minutes and it was the sloppiest football I've ever seen. An embarrassment for the NFL. [/quote]

Yeah it was a really bad game.  I agree the NFL always chooses poor matchups for the Europe games, and I don't think they ever choose a divisional matchup.  It's weird because they supposedly want to market the NFL more in Europe yet that game converted no one.  I heard from someone who went that there was a relatively high number Americans who travelled in from the US for the game, whereas the ones in Germany tend to attract a lot of expats/military and locals.[/quote]

As the NFL has begun to have more of these, they are pushing to get more teams involved and not just the dregs.  There was a period that it seemed like Jacksonville as playing a game in the UK every year - and they were because their owner was also open to it.

The game in Dublin with the Steelers and Vikings was pretty good and the Steelers wanted to play there as well with the late Dan Rooney, team owner, also serving as Ambassador to Ireland.

Also have heard similar that there were many more USA based fans than locals that you will see at the UK, Germany based games.  While there are followers of US football in Spain, I don't think it's near the same concentration as elsewhere in Europe.[/quote]

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