The NFL is the most watched sport in the United States, it generated a revenue of 20.5 billion dollars last year alone but the NFL is greedy by having their international games every season which should not be happening.
Understandably, the NFL is trying to grow its fanbase but it’s like the league doesn’t care about its core fanbase or players and coaches.
Our version of football is nowhere near as popular across the world except for tourists visiting those countries as countries such as England or Germany most watched sport is soccer so why expand over there
It also makes it difficult for the coaches and players involved due to the amount of travel these teams will have.
Both New York teams would have to travel an additional 3.451 miles on a seven-hour flight, which is almost a quarter of the day.
As popular as the NFL is, the television ratings for an international game may start to down as US fans have already had discourse online that they don’t want to wake up at 6 a.m. or earlier to watch a game.
However, there are alternatives for the NFL to continue with these international games
Two options are to have them less often and to keep the international games in North America such as Canada and Mexico.
For example, instead of having them every single season hold them every 3-5 years, to make the scheduling of games easier making the travel less stressful for the players and coaches.
When it comes to keeping the games in North America a lot of the California teams have a very strong fan base in Mexico along with the 2 Texas teams.
East Coast teams such as all the New York teams also have a strong fan base in Canada.
Not only will these options make it easy on the players and coaches, they will most likely, make it easier for the fans here in the States.
The fans wouldn’t have to spend money on a plane ticket, not to mention the hotel cost and other additional expenses not including the price of admission to the game, should at least some of the NFL fans here in the States be so adventurous to do so.
I’m sure, NFL fans would rather travel to Canada or Mexico by bus or train to watch their favorite team play instead of anywhere else overseas and the fans should continue to make that known.
