China is still perceived as a largely unexploited market by the NFL,and a regular season game there could back bring in enormous revenueJust because the NFL is serious about playing a regular season game in China that doesn’t mean the league is scaling back their plans for the UK. If anything, this signals that the NFL is determined to hold pushing the sport beyond the US borders even more than before.
American football fans will probably hate Monday’s report from Fox Sports’s Alex Marvez that said the league is seriously considering playing a regular-season game in China sometime in the next two or three years. Most NFL fans in the US prefer their teams to play where they always hold at home.
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Source: theguardian.com