The National Football League hasn’t even begun its pre-season schedule of exhibitions yet — that won’t kick off until Thursday when the Las Vegas Raiders host the Jacksonville Jaguars at Allegiant Stadium — but you can already feel the juggernaut flexing its muscles and taking over the North American landscape.
Across the pond, Germans are giving the NFL quite the welcome. Site traffic for tickets for the Nov. 13 game between the Seattle Seahawks and Tampa Bay Buccaneers crossed 770,000 simultaneous users when tickets went on sale last week. That represents more than 10 times the number of tickets available at Allianz Arena for the first NFL regular season game in Germany. Resell prices further reflected how hot the ticket is, with the least expensive get-in price at US$750.
Add it all up and the NFL is close to becoming the first US$20 billion league in the world. It’s not far off from commissioner Roger Goodell’s nirvana: A US$25 billion industry that is almost as large as the other three big four North American leagues combined.Article contentIt’s been a sobering two weeks for the Calgary Flames in particular and Canadian-based National Hockey League teams in general.
The news out of Calgary these past two weeks has only added salt to the wound created by the soon-to-be 30-year drought since 1993, the last time a Canadian-based team won a Stanley Cup.Article content
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