Comments on: So if London gets NFL, do we get cricket and warm beer?

By: joey

joey — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:57:17 +0000

o dear god keep there damn sport over there i moved from usa to live and breath real football over here in europe now they sending the reason i left the states over here no!!!

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:44:04 +0000

Yeah, I hate to break it to you, but their beer is not served warm. That’s somewhat of a myth. They like their beer just as cold as ours, and even have “extra cold” taps at bars and pubs. Guinness is best served chilled and isn’t British, it’s Irish. I only wish we had beer like theirs over here…

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:33:37 +0000

I’ll take the Arsenal v. Manchester game. Sorry, Schultz.

By: Bflex

Bflex — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:53:04 +0000

Jeff Schultz comments in the AJC today about how Michael Vick “paid his debt to society” show how obtuse sports fans are on the subject of Animal Cruelty.

Micheal Vick played games with the court so he could get out of Prison early.

The truth is, and many people feel this way and I am not referring to radicals, but if PETA were taking up a collection to hire a hit-man to have Michael Vick assassinated, I would be happy to contribute to such a worthy cause.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 15 May 2009 23:09:58 +0000

I don’t understand why most people are appalled at the idea of the Super Bowl being played in London, a majority of the fans can’t afford the tickets anyway. If you can afford the tickets, then you can afford the airfare and cost of a hotel, food etc. The warm beer joke is getting as stale as a Budweiser btw.

By: Terence Moore

Terence Moore — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:17:09 +0000

They dont have any blacks in Europe. Therefore the game would not be welcome here. Brothers would take over the sport just like the NBA.

By: IlliniBrave

IlliniBrave — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:02:29 +0000

Jeff:

Pretty funny comments here – especially the one about how one could not be an American and prefer football (soccer) over football (the NFL). I’m pretty sure that you don’t really mean that, since we are the land of Lady Liberty and Ellis Island and immigrants from everywhere. Because most of my friends from Europe and Asis, not to mention Latin America, prefer “footie” over football.

Oh, and cricket is actually pretty cool, if you give it a chance. And cask-conditioned (aka “warm”) beer is damn good.

By: Come on Spurs

Come on Spurs — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:58:45 +0000

Jeff shows his shortsighted ways. Any British soccer match at Wembley is better then the Falcons in the dome..Boring Boring Falcons….yes Tottenham are a major team in the EPL and have more fans worldwide then both the Falcons and even the Dawgs. Bring the Super Bowl to Wembley, problem though is there are actually no pubs near the actual stadium. We could drink Carlsberg though, better then Redneck PBRs

By: okintheuk

okintheuk — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:15:27 +0000

Mr. Smith,

I’m from Atlanta and am marooned in London. It takes 7 hours from New York to get to London (flight times) and about 5 and half to get from LA to New York. I’d love to get across the country in 3.5 hours. I kindly disagree about that. I agree with you, however, about the security and luggage time.

My only complaint with a game here is that they sent Saints fans here the weekend of the Georgia-LSU game which means I was severely outnumbered watching the Dawgs play. Jeff, the nfl has an office in London to promote the game. From my experience here, the nfl apparently made a big play in the UK in the 80’s and was getting pretty popular (hence the NFL Europe disaster) and then abandoned it. I’m always surprised when British people start talking to me about the Fridge and Joe Montana.

By: London Based Yellow Jacket

London Based Yellow Jacket — Fri, 15 May 2009 08:15:23 +0000

Jeff,

Fans in the UK and I think most of Europe can usually choose from up 5 games via Sky Sports (satellite station). They give you two choices of the 1:00 and 4:15 games and then show the late game as well. And the Monday night game is also shown.

We also get alot of the various highlight and analysis shows during the week.

The cool thing is that your 4:15 game is (9:15 for us so sort of like watching Monday (or rather Sunday) night football. So no fighting with the kids or the wife for the remote.

Because the Falcons did so well last year and were such a good news story they actually appeared about six times which was great.

We also have ESPN America which is a sort of compilation channel that shows college football on Saturdays and always features the CBS 3:30 SEC Game of the Week – which starts at 8:30 over here so is also great when the wife and kids head to bed.

Football (the American version) is far more popular over here than people in the US realise and the more it is shown the more popular it becomes.