Fair do's.
I don't follow NFL particularly closely, was under the impression it was mainly the lesser teams that were sent over. That said, now they're doing 3 games a year I suppose they had to rope in the bigguns too.
£37 (£25) a game then - and a 3 hour+ game at that. Outstanding value innit. I've seen walk-up tickets MUCH cheaper than that as well for excellent seats.
But when you get 81 home games a season (all within the space of 6 months), its not quite such a big deal losing a handful of those games to another country. I doubt there are many fans who go to every home game....you'd have to be retired or unemployed !
NFL only seems to send over the "smaller" teams to Wembley, but then there's only 8 home games a season, so that's quite a sacrifice.
The fact that there are 81 home games in the regular season in baseball lessens the impact of losing a home series to London, so I wouldn't be surprised to see...
Thats what I was wondering.
It would make sense for it to be a 3 or 4 game series. They never just play a singular game in isolation during the regular season, its always a series over there, and this would be a long way to travel just to play 1 game. They could maximise it by having at least...
The fact that there are 162 regular season games in baseball means tickets are pretty cheap.
I know what you mean re the football stadium aspect though. You ideally need a large elevated section behind home plate and 1st + 3rd base, so if it was at the Olympic Stadium the sightlines would not...
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jan/26/mlb-very-interested-in-playing-regular-season-game-in-london-in-2017
Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred says the league could play a regular-season game in London in 2017.
“We are very interested in playing there, and we’re working hard...