With 1.3 billion potential Chinese consumers, U.S. professional sports organizations are rushing to capitalize on the sports frenzy building in China around the 2008 Olympic Games
http://www.bjreview.com.cn/nation/txt/2007-04/19/content_62029.htm
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5.5.07 / 4pm
I am fascinated by these attempts to spread American football overseas. I posted a piece a while back called “Best Kicker Name Ever” about Ding Long and other Chinese kickers who had been tracked down and auditioned by the NFL. Thanks for linking that article – I also find it very interesting.
5.5.07 / 8pm
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I stumbled onto this article accidentally.
I never knew this amount of interested American Football existed in China. It was actually just weird to me.
5.7.07 / 10am
Well, I think the NFL is pushing it hard. They are trying to manufacture an overseas market for American football, and I have no idea how it’s working out, but it sounds like it’s not going as well as they’d hoped.
[...] But best of all is the news contained in this press release from the “International” section of NFL.com. NFL Europa is now auditioning Chinese place kickers, including the fabulously named Ding Long. I’ve always wondered how NFL Europe finds players from such far-flung nations, and the press release makes it clear – they hunt them down, strap them to the hood of the NFL Hummer, bring them to the U.S., and then nurse them back to health: The trio of Chinese kickers has been tracked down and nurtured by NFL Europa scouts in a bid to develop the sport of football in China, where the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks will play an exhibition game on Aug. 9. (editor’s note – not so fast, NFL International!) [...]
5.7.07 / 11am
That’s pretty funny. Ding Long… I don’t know about Ding… but Long is probably the Chinese word for Dragon 龙, the name is pretty tacky if you ask me.
Actually that name reminds of “T Long”, Terrence Long.
By the way, I read your blog, you’ve got some insightful information on, well sports in general. It was a good read.
9.21.07 / 4pm
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