UK coverage of NFL Europe

[Mel Brennan]

As a Dallas fan, I found myself skimming their website; there was a section talking about Chad Hutchinson, a 4th-string QB, and monitoring his progress in NFL Europe.

I was like , whoa, are they even in SEASON???

Becuase here I am in Scotland, and the season is apparently five weeks old, and I didn't know a single thing about it. NO...and I mean ZERO...coverage of it in the part of the UK I'm in, the part that actually has a team!!!

So, for those who have been in the UK longer than me, or with a special insight...is it that the UK sees NFL Europe as American encroachment upon UK sporting life, and thus ignores it in the media, or what?

I'm not especially interested in NFL Europe, I just thought the TOTAL lack of coverage intriguing...

[VON9905]

I have a question, not about your post really, but I would like to know where Cologne is? There is one team that is missing from the league this season and this team now in the league. I fugured since you lived in Europe, you might know. Oh, and about your post, everyone in the world except maybe a select Japanese portion hate American football. They have rugby, it is seen as more manly. This is just what I have heard from various people as to why most non-Americans hate Gridiron football.

-Von

[WarrenWallace]

Cologne is in Germany. That country has 4 of the 6 NFL Europe franchises.

[afgrijselijkheid]

they show the weekly amsterdam game on local tv, but you dont hear or read much about the team from the media

[dfb547490]

I have a question, not about your post really, but I would like to know where Cologne is? There is one team that is missing from the league this season and this team now in the league. I fugured since you lived in Europe, you might know. Oh, and about your post, everyone in the world except maybe a select Japanese portion hate American football. They have rugby, it is seen as more manly. This is just what I have heard from various people as to why most non-Americans hate Gridiron football.

-Von

American football is very popular in Canada (well, Canadian football, which is basically the same thing save some rule changes, is), and is a cult sport (not unlike soccer in the US, altho generally not quite that level of popularity) in a number of countries--mainly Mexico, Japan, Australia, Germany, Russia, Finland, and to a lesser extent the UK, Italy, Scandinavia, Ireland, Holland, etc.

[JG]

Here's some coverage:

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/tm_objectid=14226147%26method=full%26siteid=89488%26headline=american%2dfootball%2d%2dhart%2dache-name_page.html

I have a friend (an American doing a postdoc in Liverpool) who's playing in the second division of the British league...unfortunately some teams folded before the season so his team only has nine games over a four-month season.