Rams to be the first truly global team in the nfl?

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(04-14-2016, 07:17 PM)Benton Wrote: I think that's a big part of it. It's like with soccer. Part of why the U.S. isn't as soccer crazy as the rest of the world is because we aren't as good as the rest of the world. We don't have a lot of U.S. athletes that are known for it. On the flip side, not a lot of other countries have as much to get excited about when we introduce U.S. football because they don't have anything to get behind — they don't have college teams and youth leagues competing in it like we do here, players from their towns or schools, etc.

It's just like building a college or high school team. If the NFL wants international appeal, they need to start building it at the youth level.

I'm no anthropologist, but a game that requires as much equipment as football is going to have a hard time catching on anywhere but the higher-end countries.  A game that 22 kids can play with a single ball is going to win over globally every time.  

Anyways, I tend to follow the money when it comes to justification for the way anything is the way it is.  The non-stop nature of soccer is the direct opposite of football which has many breaks that allow for zounds of commercials.  More commercials means more money and more money means more promotion, and we all know promotion is almost everything.