10-22-2015, 04:13 AM
I can only agree with you.
Being a few hundred kilometers north from you, in the little country Denmark :)
In Denmark American football was a great unknown, up though the 90s.
Only time you heard about it was in sports news, whenever somethings crazy happened.
The first time NFL was transmitted on Danish TV, was Superbowl in 1998.
And this was also my first meeting with the sport, first time I saw it.
I rememeber how they told about the rules, and I started to feel an interest in this sport.
In ’99 they started air a whole season, 1 match each week. So it was very exclusive.
But form here on it took off.
Now ( I have heard ) we are the country, outside US, which features most NFL live games each week.
We get to see Thursday, Saturday early ( London games ), the we get 2-3 games Sunday morning, 2 games Sunday evening and Sunday night and Monday night.
But I agree with you, it is still very exclusive here. We do not get all the media attention to NFL, it is “just” the games.
But off cause now adays it is very easy to follow the American medias. So I don’t thing it is as exclusive as it was a few years ago.
Being a few hundred kilometers north from you, in the little country Denmark :)
In Denmark American football was a great unknown, up though the 90s.
Only time you heard about it was in sports news, whenever somethings crazy happened.
The first time NFL was transmitted on Danish TV, was Superbowl in 1998.
And this was also my first meeting with the sport, first time I saw it.
I rememeber how they told about the rules, and I started to feel an interest in this sport.
In ’99 they started air a whole season, 1 match each week. So it was very exclusive.
But form here on it took off.
Now ( I have heard ) we are the country, outside US, which features most NFL live games each week.
We get to see Thursday, Saturday early ( London games ), the we get 2-3 games Sunday morning, 2 games Sunday evening and Sunday night and Monday night.
But I agree with you, it is still very exclusive here. We do not get all the media attention to NFL, it is “just” the games.
But off cause now adays it is very easy to follow the American medias. So I don’t thing it is as exclusive as it was a few years ago.
