American Football Discussion

[Dead Mike]

On 9/13/2026 at 10:24 PM, Frankie Crisp said:

If the fry-ups don’t kill me, the Bears will.

You'll be in the playoffs this season. Garrett Bradbury was a great acquisition.

 

On 9/13/2026 at 9:00 AM, Statto said:

 

Been expecting that for a little while - this whole thing has turned slightly farcical. Whilst there is definitely growing interest in the college game in the UK (and God knows I'm trying with you fuckers 😆) it's not been marketed well and the pricing was iffy - I've not actually done the comparison myself but understand the get-in price (£56) was higher than for the NFL games. If they'd done a load of £20 tickets you might have sold a load more on curiosity. 

 

Calling the pricing 'iffy' is very diplomatically put 😆  They absolutely assumed the demand would be akin to the NFL games & the original prices were disgusting. We were looking at going but binned it when we priced up travel & accommodation. The fact there's less chance for UK fans to watch and follow makes it a much harder sell, as you rightly said, it'd be better to sell it out with more affordable tickets all round than try & gouge people up front.

We're heading out to Atlanta in a few weeks for the 49ers @ the Falcons and have got Georgia Tech tickets for the day before. Lower section, on the 35yrd line & they were $80 face value. Charging nearly 4x that over here is straight up robbery. 

[MVP RULZ]

Ive been to all the London games since they started in 2007 so I did look at going but the pricing just put me off 

The 1st of the 3 London games is only 2 weeks after this with the other 2 the following weekends so placing this game so close to the London games also probably negatively impacted the sales with the majority who maybe would have taken a punt (pun intended) on going not willing to add an extra London trip so close to the games.

College football is still very much a niche variety of a sport where the main version is still fairly niche in the eyes of the wider  sports public of this country.

Even the NFL tickets have been slower selling with the prices now just too high for people to justify so this had no chance at similar range pricing

If priced right and played at least a couple weeks earlier this could have been a bit of a success but sadly it's probably going to be labeled a bit of a failure

At least moving the fans down should make it look better if the lower bowl is at least filled and those fans who purchased the cheap tickets get a nice upgrade (unless as mentioned already your 50 yard tickets are now lower end zone tickets) 

 

[I Bent My Wookie]

I have very little to offer other than it's the hope that's gonna kill me when it comes to the Jets as we didn't look awful on the weekend. 

Even just a playoff would be nice. 

[Statto]

3 hours ago, Dead Mike said:

We're heading out to Atlanta in a few weeks for the 49ers @ the Falcons and have got Georgia Tech tickets for the day before. Lower section, on the 35yrd line & they were $80 face value. Charging nearly 4x that over here is straight up robbery. 

If they lose again Saturday (which they probably won't, but...) they might be paying you to go to Bobby Dodd the rest of the year!

To avoid the risk of the double-post, going early with my Disney+ game of the week (that's not on in the middle of the night) recommendation of #16 SMU @ #23 Louisville (8:30pm).

More than just being a ranked-on-ranked match-up, it should be a really fun quarterback duel (the current #1 vs current #4 nationally in yards per attempt) and a game that could be an early eliminator in the race for the ACC championship.

(Yes that's SMU from the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex among the favourites to win the Atlantic Coast Conference - a conference that now includes 2 teams from California. Ah, college football in 2026...)

[Dead Mike]

20 minutes ago, Statto said:

If they lose again Saturday (which they probably won't, but...) they might be paying you to go to Bobby Dodd the rest of the year!

I know! The crowd looked awesome these last couple of games, just hope there's enough interest it doesn't kill the atmosphere. It's the official 'homecoming' game though so that should spike interest.

I went to Berkeley to see the Cal Bears a couple of years ago ahead of the 49ers/Cowboys & despite the crowd being sparse the pre-game vibe around the bars & campus was amazing. 

 

 

[Statto]

And therein lies the beauty of CFB... even when it's bad it's good!

(Which is making me think maybe I should go to Wembley on Saturday...)

[squatswithducks]

Just thought I'd flag up that if you've got access to Tickets for Good, there's more free tickets available for the Union Jack Classic tomorrow (£6.95 fee per person, but basically free!)