Irene Demova wrote:KK wrote:Yesterday's NFL game on the BBC averaged a really poor 290,000, the lowest of any London game on terrestrial. I guess putting it up against the rugby, 2 big Premier League games, and the L'Arc De Triomphe on 4 wasn't a good idea after all. If they're really serious about growing the game here then they're going to need more than 3 games and a highlights show on free TV, even with the extra 3 (poorly promoted) games lined up for PickTV. The Sunday 6pm-9pm slot is ideal though.
If the NFL's serious about gauging interest they'd send a good team over.
Instead it's just an excuse to sell out a game that otherwise nobody would care about, I mean the Jags game every year for 3 years is just because they can't sell out their own stadium
They have sent over good teams, the problem is they send over a good team playing a bad team so it ends in quite a boring blow out. Falcons Vs Lions last year was a great game. Like you say Jags playing against 49ers and the Cowboys were just huge blow outs, so again not really that fun to watch. (Also The Patriots were over in 07 which was their crazy year good year 16-0 losing to the Giants in the Super Bowl They blew up the Buccs that year)
As for yesterdays game, the Dolphins were dreadful, the Jets were not even pushing themselves and still won by double digits, I guess as a result of the Jets rather tepid approach and the Dolphins awfulness the atmosphere was not amazing. Considering how many people were building up the Dolphins in the offseason their start has been woeful.
Still solid win for the Jets 3-1, schedule does not seem too harsh either, I wonder if this year could be the play offs? (Wild card of course, Patriots have the division already) The AFC seems quite open especially with trouble in the AFC North what with the Ravens starting so poorly and Big Ben being out. Would have been nice to play the Cowboys now rather than December mind