This is a big surprise, the game last year was a sellout at very high ticket prices and had more Americans travelling over for it than any other international game they’ve done previously.
With multiple Irish players starting to break into the league, I thought an annual Dublin game was a no-brainer.
doctor6 on
For the love of god will someone check in on the hoteliers
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IMHO it is an absolutely shite sport and I hate that it’s popularity is rising in Europe.
PanNationalistFront on
I’m not an NFL fan but I’m happy with this because I believe non friendly league and cup games in any sport should be played in their home stadium. We started seeing this creep in to football with Spain. Play friendlies whenever you want though.
ou812_X on
That’s weird. Don’t Aer Lingus have a deal with the Steelers as their official partner airline??? I thought that meant they were going to be the home team here for the duration of the sponsorship.
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TBH the Dublin football games seem *much* more about Americans getting to travel than “growing the game” outside the US. Paris, London, Madrid, etc. are major cities of large countries; Ireland just doesn’t have that kind of market to tap into. Saw a lot of people in Steelers gear even in Cork before the game, but pretty much all of them were Americans.
I’m a little surprised in the sense that I would have thought that the financial incentive would be there just based on selling travel packages etc., but the idea of the international games is to grow the brand and Ireland isn’t a big fish on that front.
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This is a big surprise, the game last year was a sellout at very high ticket prices and had more Americans travelling over for it than any other international game they’ve done previously.
With multiple Irish players starting to break into the league, I thought an annual Dublin game was a no-brainer.
For the love of god will someone check in on the hoteliers
IMHO it is an absolutely shite sport and I hate that it’s popularity is rising in Europe.
I’m not an NFL fan but I’m happy with this because I believe non friendly league and cup games in any sport should be played in their home stadium. We started seeing this creep in to football with Spain. Play friendlies whenever you want though.
That’s weird. Don’t Aer Lingus have a deal with the Steelers as their official partner airline??? I thought that meant they were going to be the home team here for the duration of the sponsorship.
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TBH the Dublin football games seem *much* more about Americans getting to travel than “growing the game” outside the US. Paris, London, Madrid, etc. are major cities of large countries; Ireland just doesn’t have that kind of market to tap into. Saw a lot of people in Steelers gear even in Cork before the game, but pretty much all of them were Americans.
I’m a little surprised in the sense that I would have thought that the financial incentive would be there just based on selling travel packages etc., but the idea of the international games is to grow the brand and Ireland isn’t a big fish on that front.