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.
If they don’t play here every year it’s easier to keep the prices high.
I was all on for going to the Dublin game, despite not following either team, but then I saw the prices €250 for temporary seating on the Hill? Just no.
Just that you guys know, the game is not going on since they say that Dublin is unsafe city, also one of main organizers got robbed in city center, plus couple of Americans got beaten up in town.
I don’t know a single person who wasn’t American that actually wanted to go to the previous game. Just too expensive. And for the money DCC gave them, I feel their return on investment figures they cited to justify this may not have materialised. Which makes sense as Dublin as a city is almost always saturated in terms of tourism, especially in September when he accomodation capacity just isn’t in existence.
Praise the lord
Thank god
Odd that the first ever American football game played in Croke Park was in 1996 but the first rugby match wasn’t until 2007. So much for no foreign games rule.
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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.
Good
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.
If they don’t play here every year it’s easier to keep the prices high.
I was all on for going to the Dublin game, despite not following either team, but then I saw the prices €250 for temporary seating on the Hill? Just no.
Just that you guys know, the game is not going on since they say that Dublin is unsafe city, also one of main organizers got robbed in city center, plus couple of Americans got beaten up in town.
I don’t know a single person who wasn’t American that actually wanted to go to the previous game. Just too expensive. And for the money DCC gave them, I feel their return on investment figures they cited to justify this may not have materialised. Which makes sense as Dublin as a city is almost always saturated in terms of tourism, especially in September when he accomodation capacity just isn’t in existence.
Praise the lord
Thank god
Odd that the first ever American football game played in Croke Park was in 1996 but the first rugby match wasn’t until 2007. So much for no foreign games rule.