I took a trip to watch my home NFL team play in London back in roughly 2015. The trip to London was great, but the game itself was boring. The locals at the game weren’t big fans of either team and didn’t understand the game. I wasn’t a season ticket holder and have a relatively high salary compared to my home population, so it didn’t impact me much. It would have been really shitty if I were a season ticket holder and if those tickets represented a significant portion of my salary. It also sucks when you have to wake up super early to watch your team play.
I know things are different for a global sport like soccer vs NFL, and it sucks for fans of Barca in Miami to not be able to cheaply see their team play; but locals made these teams what they are and locals make the game day environment what it is. Taking that away from them is wrong.
I took a trip to watch my home NFL team play in London back in roughly 2015. The trip to London was great, but the game itself was boring. The locals at the game weren’t big fans of either team and didn’t understand the game. I wasn’t a season ticket holder and have a relatively high salary compared to my home population, so it didn’t impact me much. It would have been really shitty if I were a season ticket holder and if those tickets represented a significant portion of my salary. It also sucks when you have to wake up super early to watch your team play.
I know things are different for a global sport like soccer vs NFL, and it sucks for fans of Barca in Miami to not be able to cheaply see their team play; but locals made these teams what they are and locals make the game day environment what it is. Taking that away from them is wrong.