The most watched broadcast in US Television, the Super Bowl, was first played on the 15th of January in 1967. Today, it has over 200 million viewers all over the world and continues to provide the thrills and excitements as only the National Football League can give. It is televised by one- and only one, major TV network and is known to have the most expensive airtime fees for advertising. It is also marked to be the day where the Americans have a high percentage of food consumption- second only to Thanksgiving. The Super Bowl’s most priced winner, the Pittsburgh Steelers, has won more games than any other team with 6 wins on the overall.Now, with all this fuss about Super Bowl, it might interest you to know that there are talks of bringing the Super Bowl to London, as confirmed by a senior official of the NHL citing the Wembley Stadium to be the venue for this highly sought after event. Since the NFL has played several times in this part of the UK such as that of the game between the New York Giants and the Miami Dolphins which drew a record of 80,000 spectators, officials think it might be a good idea to host the Super Bowl there too.
NFL officials have always aimed at widening their presence to include cities outside the US. In fact, they have already played in several countries in Asia, Canada, Mexico and even Europe and the events have always been quite successful. In Mexico, an NFL game drew over 100,000 people.
Talks are still ongoing and hopefully a decision will be made real soon. Football is huge in the United States, and it just might be as successful in the UK too. And the only way to find out is to hold a British Super Bowl.
