American football@ Wembley

Simon Smith · January 28, 2014

Just seen an advert for the up coming games at Wembley and thought I'd have a look at the ticket prices as it would be my chance to see the Dallas Cowboys in action live for the first time in years.
If anyone is thinking of going you better take out a loan is all i can say as the cheapest ticket is £52.50 going up to a whopping £439.
And if you are still planning to go remember that the Jags are the home team V's the Cowboys so no chance of getting to see the Cheerleaders from the Cowboys :0(
P.S. The tickets can only be bought from Ticketmaster and not from Wembley so no doubt there will be a huge booking fee too!!!

SerenityNigh · January 28, 2014

Simon Smith said:
Just seen an advert for the up coming games at Wembley and thought I'd have a look at the ticket prices as it would be my chance to see the Dallas Cowboys in action live for the first time in years.
If anyone is thinking of going you better take out a loan is all i can say as the cheapest ticket is £52.50 going up to a whopping £439.
And if you are still planning to go remember that the Jags are the home team V's the Cowboys so no chance of getting to see the Cheerleaders from the Cowboys :0(
P.S. The tickets can only be bought from Ticketmaster and not from Wembley so no doubt there will be a huge booking fee too!!!

Expensive tickets, but if it's any consolation the games are expensive Stateside as well. I think there are a few GOTers who travel to Wembley for the games, you may want to check out this thread:

http://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/60933-NFL-Thread

Tubey · January 28, 2014

This is the industry standard now for concerts. Not surprising at all really, and if you think about it they have to make it monetarily worthwhile to bring the sport overseas, otherwise why bother?

Let's face it, the "pansy version of rugby" is never going to be a hit over here as a mainstream sport.

SerenityNigh · January 28, 2014

Tubey said:
Let's face it, the [NFL] is never going to be a hit over here as a mainstream sport.

This. I see why the NFL would spend the money and time as a goodwill/share the sport effort, but the NFL has for some time had a blind fixation on European expansion, which is an absolutely ludicrous idea.