London Abuzz About NFL Week
 

Reports from London have the city in a frenzy over the upcoming historic football (real football not soccer) tilt between the winless Miami Dolphins (called the NFL's worst team which Spurs fans can identify with i guess) and mediocre New York Giants at the new Wembley Stadium.

Tickets for the match disappeared practically before they were put on sale - some 45,000 in the first few minutes and the other 50,000 not long after i think

95,000 for a football match - more than any English soccer team this year in England i think - guess Wembley is just too big for most clubs to even start to fill

But anyway the frenzy frenzies up as the Oct 28 match approaches

A huge model of a behemoth NFL football player i guess hovers over Wembley Stadium. Pompon gals have been sighted all over town. The country's beefsteak supply is said to be perilously low.

London's notorious tabloids have been trumpeting the tilt all week. So thanks to Mayor 'Red' Ken Livingstone who probably was the visionary who organized this never seen before in London extravaganza, for the unusally exciting October week.

I haven't seen a single media piece about this. Not that I've been looking, mind.

He's making it up as he goes along!

Just checked the Sun (best selling tabloid) website and no mention of it.

In fact no section at all for Lardball.

Amazingly - he's not. I've googled and it's on Sunday.

I really haven't seen anything about this at all.

Will Her Majesty the Queen be attending?

NFL London 2007: HomeNFL London 2007 Click to go to nfluk.com ... for a press conference regarding the historic game at Wembley on October 28. ...
www.nfllondon2007.com/

NFL London 2007: News
Big JT will be taking a ‘mystery’ tour of London in the lead up to the game ... Tickets for the NFL game on 28th October sold out within two hours of going ...
www.nfllondon2007.com/news.aspx

Waring - just sour grapes cause you couldn't nab a ducat to the historic match, which could well be the death knell of English football as you know it.

What for?

He's making it up as he goes along!

Just checked the Sun (best selling tabloid) website and no mention of it.

Author: Cholmondley_Warner
Amazingly - he's not. I've googled and it's on Sunday.

I really haven't seen anything about this at all.

Cholmondley - tell Waring about it - i'm not making it up.

Now cheerleaders I approve, fewer clothes and more girl on girl action, and it would make for ideal televisual entertainment.

Looking at those sites, it's not the first NFL game in England at all, previous games having similarly passed unnoticed.

Ok. Waring: A bunch of fat blokes are going to bore tens of thousands of otherwise decent people senseless on Sunday by running into one another for very short periods of action.

There you go Bob.

At least there will be 95000 more people who will get to realise that NFL is a gigantic bore played by a players, most of whom are or have been on steroids.

It is not the first NFL game played in London or abroad but it is the first regular season NFL game played in Europe, which i guess may include London though that is subject to debate i guess with Englandcentric folks.

It is historic as being the very first regular season tilt in Europe and abroad i think but perhaps there was one in Japan once.

Do I get the impression that Rupert Murdoch may be behind this aberration?

No because if he were his tabloids would be emblazzoning it on their front pages

Would be interesting to know:

1. How many tickets were given away by the NFL to fill the seats

2. Percentage of attendees that are Yanks that live/work in UK or nearby Continental Europe (Including military personnel)

:)

Well, Flanneruk Global Enterprises has developed cutting-edge webcrawling solutions.

We've used them to seek out the "notorious tabloids" that are trumpeting this Blouseball match. And, thanks to our bank of supercomputers, we've succeeded.

In late September, one tabloid actually mentioned the game. The Moscow News (OK, a few thousand miles east, but close enough for most Americans) said it's be good for corporate hospitality.

And that's pretty much the sum total of coverage this weird non-event has got in Europe's newspapers.

<And that's pretty much the sum total of coverage this weird non-event has got in Europe's newspapers>

strange that the largest sporting event in London and the U.K. this year i suspect, perhaps in London's and England's history - 95,000 fans - would not be noted at least in the media

This does NOT pass the smell test

They've been trundling a damn big dummy player around. I saw it at Canary Wharf (where you'd expect quite a few people of a transatlantic persuasion, or those who harbour dreams of being taken for one, poor hair-gelled fools), and there was a small picture of it in my paper with a para or two.

Nobody seems to have taken much notice, either of the action on the big screen that came with it, or with the dummy itself. Symbolically, I thought, it came with a crane to prop it up.

the dummy is actually a replica of an actual NFL star player.

glad for you pointing out flanner's lapse in saying only a Moscow paper had mentioned the tilt.

flanner seems to have the Whole Foods Market phobia - fear of anything non-english making it here. Borders proved him wrong on that.

So why is Borders UK up for sale?