5 reasons that RL will fail/succeed in the US

[amnrlfan]

I think that the youth is the major factor for Rugby League and controls the failure or success of the game in the US. If there is no youth program there is no major Rugby League down the road. However you need something for the youth to look up to such as a Pro Comp. Kids play football when they're young because they want to be the next Tom Brady or Peyton Manning. Kids in the US do not wake up in the morning and say, I want to be the next Billy Slater.

 

[biggestbroncosfan]

Some really great input. In the coming weeks I'll really need to pick some brains on what a youth camp/academy/league looks like. You're all right in the notions that youth involvment is a big key. Getting a youth program from concept to reality will be a big step.

Obviously you need coaches for the teams and playing gear. First of all you will need to pick the right time to run it, then you will have to find kids who would be involved and find local fields and areas that would like to be involved. You could also look at high schools getting teams going? Good luck with it, as kids getting into the game there will be the first big step in spreading the game.

 

[Footyhead2]

As a RL Fan who lives in the USA, I see that most of these posts are coming from outside the country. Why do I say that? Because the continued use of the word "gridiron" to describe American Football. If you ask an American what Gridiron is, you will get a blank stare. The term doesn't exist. The game is just called Football.

 

[Skeletor]

As a RL Fan who lives in the USA, I see that most of these posts are coming from outside the country. Why do I say that? Because the continued use of the word "gridiron" to describe American Football. If you ask an American what Gridiron is, you will get a blank stare. The term doesn't exist. The game is just called Football.

Some of us are ex-pat Aussies/Brits who have always called it "Gridiron" or "American Football". Also, you often hear on sports shows announcers talking about, say, Aaron Rogers accomplishments "on the gridiron".

Welcome aboard by the way footyhead.

 

[manoj p]

Cause it's a better game

Obviously.

 

[Big Picture]

Some of us are ex-pat Aussies/Brits who have always called it "Gridiron" or "American Football". Also, you often hear on sports shows announcers talking about, say, Aaron Rogers accomplishments "on the gridiron".

Welcome aboard by the way footyhead.

While they might say "on the gridiron" they never call the sport that. Americans always call it football. RL's opportunity in the US is precisely due to the similarities to the American game, that's why some in Jacksonville have apparently called RL "the other football." RL is the only other sport most Americans would ever think of calling football.

 

[BDGS]

While they might say "on the gridiron" they never call the sport that. Americans always call it football. RL's opportunity in the US is precisely due to the similarities to the American game, that's why some in Jacksonville have apparently called RL "the other football." RL is the only other sport most Americans would ever think of calling football.

If that is true, that is huge for the game.

 

[dangerousdave]

If that is true, that is huge for the game.

Unfortunantly its not. Don't know where that tripe came from. Americans calling league football...heard it all now

 

[manoj p]

The game actually has quite a presence in Jacksonville.

 

[Knownothing]

The game actually has quite a presence in Jacksonville.

Well, I suppose that is a start. A tiny, little start. But a start.

 

[deluded pom?]

Unfortunantly its not. Don't know where that tripe came from. Americans calling league football...heard it all now

It's been called "the OTHER football" not "football" like an Aussie would. I'm sure Spinner has mentioned it on the Jaxaxe site.

 

[dangerousdave]

Sounds to me a little like a certain advertising campaign for "football but not as you know it" in Australia.

 

[babyg]

Sounds like it would be better to sell RL as an offshoot of NFL and not mention the rugby would at all. NRL is the 7s version of NFL.

 

[Knownothing]

Sounds like it would be better to sell RL as an offshoot of NFL and not mention the rugby would at all. NRL is the 7s version of NFL.

I doubt that the NFL would allow its name to be used in promoting another code.

 

[dangerousdave]

It's been called "the OTHER football" not "football" like an Aussie would. I'm sure Spinner has mentioned it on the Jaxaxe site.

More Americansuld know that 'in europe they call soccer football' than know of the existance of rugby league.

 

[deluded pom?]

More Americansuld know that 'in europe they call soccer football' than know of the existance of rugby league.

Put your finger under each word when you read my posts next time. That's NOT what I said.

 

[Sydney Knight]

With the interest in Jacksonville and the fact we are moving out of the GFC what are the chances of the Rabbits v Leeds or some other Russell Crowe promoted game being revived?