Today Mexico City
Next year London? The NFL played a game in London 19 years ago...maybe they'll play there next year. Does this portend regular season NFL games around the world? Tokyo? Berlin? Beijing? The NFL's appeal (along with the NBA and MLB) is worldwide and there's no reason they shouldn't play games overseas. Especially when they fill a 100,000 seat staidum (Mexico City)
Update
Ed Hochuli (Hawk-yew-lee), the ref for this game (he's the ref with the biggest guns in a striped shirt) just announced a penalty in Spanish. It was obviously practiced, rehearsed Spanish, but he did it nonetheless and it was cool!
Update 2
Paul Tagliabue, the commissioner of the NFL was just interviewed on ESPN during the game and he mentioned games in other places and he used the word "institutionalized" which means in NFL-speak as becoming a regular part of the NFL. He mentioned that the mayor of Dusseldorf was at the Mexico City game, too.
Update
Ed Hochuli (Hawk-yew-lee), the ref for this game (he's the ref with the biggest guns in a striped shirt) just announced a penalty in Spanish. It was obviously practiced, rehearsed Spanish, but he did it nonetheless and it was cool!
Update 2
Paul Tagliabue, the commissioner of the NFL was just interviewed on ESPN during the game and he mentioned games in other places and he used the word "institutionalized" which means in NFL-speak as becoming a regular part of the NFL. He mentioned that the mayor of Dusseldorf was at the Mexico City game, too.
posted by Andy in San Diego and Elsewhere at 10/02/2005 06:00:00 PM
1 Comments:
That would be cool. Not sure the players would be that excited since that involves lots more travel than usual in most cases.
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