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Originally Posted by puffnstuff
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Roger Goodell, commissioner of the NFL, the professional American football league, announced this Sunday that for the 2025 season, the league will hold eight games outside the United States, with destinations that include Mexico and Brazil, as well as Spain at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid, which was announced last February.
This will be the first time in history that the NFL relocates up to eight regular-season games outside the United States. Until the current season, the maximum number of such games had been five.
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I'm not a hand-egg fan, so genuine question, but how are the attendance numbers for those?
I cant imagine anyone in Mexico, Brazil or Spain giving half a crap about an NFL game.
England? They just love to gamble. The English will bet on anything, so maybe, but they also take their Football (Soccer) and Rugby really seriously so...maybe? Sports are Religion in Europe.
But the Bernabeu for example is an 83,000 seat stadium, sure you could probably fill that in America, but are there that many NFL fans in Spain?
So...what are the economics of this like for these foreign games? Do they make a lot of money? Sell merch?