Miami Dolphins
In the same way as the English Premier Soccer League wish to take their League abroad for the 39th game, the National Football League (NFL) of America is repeating their visit to the Wembley to play an International series game between New Orleans Saints and the San Diego Chargers. The match is due to take place on 26th October and it is understood that matches of this nature will be repeated until at least 2010. The first game last year took place between the eventual 'Superbowl' Champions, New York Giants and the Miami Dolphins.
The two teams selected for this years match are apparently high class entertaining teams and have been purposely selected to put on a top class show for the ever growing number of British fans. The two teams are high on attacking ability, or to use American parlance, offensive ability and it promises to be a high scoring game with little regard to defensive stratagems. It seems like the two teams are managed by the American equivalents of Kevin Keegan, if so then it should live up to expectations.
The last game at Wembley between the 'Giants' and the 'Dolphins' was a low scoring match in which the 'Giants' won by 13 points to 10, but the NFL Directors want this next match to be high on octane a crowd pleaser. The teams seem under orders to score at will.
The Saints and the Chargers both have 'Superbowl' aspirations this year and will hope to follow in the footsteps of the 'Giants'; both teams are expected to make the 'play-offs' this season. If either team win 'Superbowl' this year, then Wembley can expect a huge interest from other teams to visit in the next two years.
The big surprise for many is that over half million NFL fans from the UK have applied for tickets already. 45,000 tickets went on sale in May and they were sold in 90 minutes and a further 15,000 went on sale in June and similarly they were sold in just half an hour. The final sale of the remaining 20,000 or so tickets will go on sale in September and if the organisers have any sense, they should increase the price by 500% as they will seemingly still sell.
The obvious popularity of an American sport over here, that not too many people understand, played by men wearing protective clothing and where the team changes whenever a try, oops... sorry...Touchdown is scored, is a difficult thing for traditionalist UK sports followers to understand. But there is no doubt that tradition counts for nothing and this new wave of NFL London is surely only the start of things to come.
Rod Rowley is a tennis and golf journalist who has worked for many large UK media publications.
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