Interessant auch, was da noch so steht, etwa, dass die London-Spiele für die NFL trotz hoher Ticketpreise ein reiner Verlustbringer sind:
In the 10 years the National Football League has played in London, tickets for all but one of the 14 games have sold out, including seats for this season's matches, which start Sunday with the Indianapolis Colts and the Jacksonville Jaguars at Wembley Stadium.
For all that popularity, the games are still losing money, said Mark Waller, the NFL's head of international development. The productions are extraordinarily expensive, and the league has yet to make enough from British broadcast rights, ticket sales and sponsorships to offset the costs.
Tickets sell for around $130 on average, compared to $86 in the U.S., and with more than 80,000 seats, Wembley is 25 percent bigger than most NFL stadiums. Last year, gate revenue averaged more than $10 million. For the Jaguars, who have a multi-year deal to play in London, the Wembley games are far more lucrative than their own games in Florida, where they average 61,000 fans at much lower ticket prices.
Still, the games are very expensive to stage. Each team travels with around 180 people including players, coaches, trainers and other personnel who all need to be flown over, lodged and fed. Add the league's technical staff, cheerleaders and more, and the NFL is paying for first-class travel for nearly 500 people.
The league also pays to rent Wembley Arena and training facilities for each team for the duration of their stays. It also covers the cost of promotion and events that go on for days -- costs that would, in the U.S., be born by the local franchise.
Gut, der Artikel ist von 2016, kann also sein, dass sich das mittlerweile geändert hat, aber trotzdem schon krass, dass die NFL es selbst nach 9 Jahren in London nicht geschafft hat, profitabel zu sein. Da hätte man wohl genauso gut die NFL Europe weiter betreiben können, die hat sicher auch nicht mehr Verlust gemacht.
