The Las Vegas Thread

[taste2taste]

I prey and I day dream and would love to see something big happen to the NRL in America and successful cross over with the NFL and I know nothing big would happen but you never know....what if NFL fans did get into NRL big time.

The NRLs partnership with the UFC makes it more likely we'll get some UFC fans.

I rekon the players will be pretty keen to put on some big hits and argy bargy, the games could resemble a UFC fight more than a game of league anyways lol

 

[Gobsmacked]

I prey and I day dream and would love to see something big happen to the NRL in America and successful cross over with the NFL and I know nothing big would happen but you never know....what if NFL fans did get into NRL big time.

There's a real chance! If we lay the right platform as what appears to be happening! We've got a mainstream network on board for those first couple of games, playing in the USA in their state of the art stadium in what should be sold out. The promotion is working overtime engaging NFL fans an NBA fans. We have 5 years locked in to build..
People talking about if we can capture 1%... we don't even need that, just 0.3% ... that's over a million people.. enough for a TV deal and a big one at that $. Adding a million fans in the Pacific is unheard of but it's a drop in the ocean in the USA.
AFL must be absolutely devastated!
Watching the NRL have a genuine crack at the big time!
O but Tasmania lol

 

[Dark Corner]

There's a real chance! If we lay the right platform as what appears to be happening! We've got a mainstream network on board for those first couple of games, playing in the USA in their state of the art stadium in what should be sold out. The promotion is working overtime engaging NFL fans an NBA fans. We have 5 years locked in to build..
People talking about if we can capture 1%... we don't even need that, just 0.3% ... that's over a million people.. enough for a TV deal and a big one at that $. Adding a million fans in the Pacific is unheard of but it's a drop in the ocean in the USA.
AFL must be absolutely devastated!
Watching the NRL have a genuine crack at the big time!
O but Tasmania lol

Lots of sports have come and go in the USA and with having a background in Kickboxing I ave seen that sport try and hit te big time since the 1970's onwards and it sadly never took off despite the Americans like contact sports and have a large following in the Martial Arts be it Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris and the Enter the Ninja movies/Blood Sport BUT it was UFC that broke the mould.
Lots of other Gridiron comps have come and failed despite having only 32 pro clubs in the NFL alongside the massive NCAA scene.

 

[Babyface O'reilly]

I rekon the players will be pretty keen to put on some big hits and argy bargy, the games could resemble a UFC fight more than a game of league anyways lol

Which begs the question, does V’landys instruct the refs to let a few things go ‘for the show’ like in Origin once upon a time?

 

[taste2taste]

Lots of sports have come and go in the USA and with having a background in Kickboxing I ave seen that sport try and hit te big time since the 1970's onwards and it sadly never took off despite the Americans like contact sports and have a large following in the Martial Arts be it Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris and the Enter the Ninja movies/Blood Sport BUT it was UFC that broke the mould.
Lots of other Gridiron comps have come and failed despite having only 32 pro clubs in the NFL alongside the massive NCAA scene.

The reason the Gridirion comps failed is because they were comps with C grade talent playing with drastically changed rules, Vince Machmans venture into Gridiron was laughable and treated accordingly by the sporting public.

If the NRL started a comp in the off-season with extreme rule changes with players from the Ron Masey Cup would anyone care ?

 

[taste2taste]

Is there just a bunch of people bitching about the Las Vegas idea being a bad idea in this thread?

League should stay in its lane. Hull, Penrith, Perpignan, Auckland and Port Moresby!!!!

 

[taste2taste]

What do people think will be a pass mark for attendance? For me....

35k = pass
35 to 45k = great
45 to 55k = phenomenal
55 to sold out = pass me the Kleenex

@yakstorm If you had to make a prediction what do you think the attendance will be ???

 

[Harry O]

AFL must be absolutely devastated!
Watching the NRL have a genuine crack at the big time!
O but Tasmania lol

They should rename Melbourne to Melbburn, coz those afl flogs are burning, that the double header will have a audience of 100 million in the US, and millions around the

 

[Gobsmacked]

Lots of sports have come and go in the USA and with having a background in Kickboxing I ave seen that sport try and hit te big time since the 1970's onwards and it sadly never took off despite the Americans like contact sports and have a large following in the Martial Arts be it Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris and the Enter the Ninja movies/Blood Sport BUT it was UFC that broke the mould.
Lots of other Gridiron comps have come and failed despite having only 32 pro clubs in the NFL alongside the massive NCAA scene.

Yeah I've seen and know all sports but I loooove Rugby league!
Rugby league isn't ALL sports.
And the NRL isn't all comps.

The greatest game of all.

 

[Gobsmacked]

What do people think will be a pass mark for attendance? For me....

35k = pass
35 to 45k = great
45 to 55k = phenomenal
55 to sold out = pass me the Kleenex

@yakstorm If you had to make a prediction what do you think the attendance will be ???

It's already in the 20's 3 months out. I'm thinking close to a sellout.

 

[Iamback]

What do people think will be a pass mark for attendance? For me....

35k = pass
35 to 45k = great
45 to 55k = phenomenal
55 to sold out = pass me the Kleenex

@yakstorm If you had to make a prediction what do you think the attendance will be ???

If the $19 ticket price stays the whole way through. You'd have to expect a high number of walk ins on the day.

There is no shortage of Tourists in Vegas. I'd imagine a stack would be curious about the Stadium but can't afford the NFL prices

 

[Babyface O'reilly]

What do people think will be a pass mark for attendance? For me....

35k = pass
35 to 45k = great
45 to 55k = phenomenal
55 to sold out = pass me the Kleenex

@yakstorm If you had to make a prediction what do you think the attendance will be ???

It’s year one of a five year venture and I expect a lot of teething issues but when you consider it’s well into the off season and almost Christmas yet our game is still getting a ton of media attention and things are going better than expected, it’s already a ‘pass the Kleenex’ for me.

 

[Colk]

They should rename Melbourne to Melbburn, coz those afl flogs are burning, that the double header will have a audience of 100 million in the US, and millions around the

Calm down. That’s probably a Super Bowl audience and there’s no way we will get that.

 

[mozza91]

What do people think will be a pass mark for attendance? For me....

35k = pass
35 to 45k = great
45 to 55k = phenomenal
55 to sold out = pass me the Kleenex

@yakstorm If you had to make a prediction what do you think the attendance will be ???

35 = PR whinges
35 to 45 = PR whinges
45 to 55 = PR whinges
55 to sold out = PR whinges and deflects.

 

[Wb1234]

What do people think will be a pass mark for attendance? For me....

35k = pass
35 to 45k = great
45 to 55k = phenomenal
55 to sold out = pass me the Kleenex

@yakstorm If you had to make a prediction what do you think the attendance will be ???

Sell out

 

[Wb1234]

There's a real chance! If we lay the right platform as what appears to be happening! We've got a mainstream network on board for those first couple of games, playing in the USA in their state of the art stadium in what should be sold out. The promotion is working overtime engaging NFL fans an NBA fans. We have 5 years locked in to build..
People talking about if we can capture 1%... we don't even need that, just 0.3% ... that's over a million people.. enough for a TV deal and a big one at that $. Adding a million fans in the Pacific is unheard of but it's a drop in the ocean in the USA.
AFL must be absolutely devastated!
Watching the NRL have a genuine crack at the big time!
O but Tasmania lol

The average viewing per game here is around 600k. That gives a tv deall of 430 million pa (less say 75 million pa for origin)

so 600k extra viewers would be worth hundred and hundreds of millions of American dollars pa

If it got 100k regular viewers that would be massive

the problem is time zones for regular nrl games won’t be ideal especially on the east coast

 

[Gobsmacked]

The average viewing per game here is around 600k. That gives a tv deall of 430 million pa (less say 75 million pa for origin)

so 600k extra viewers would be worth hundred and hundreds of millions of American dollars pa

If it got 100k regular viewers that would be massive

the problem is time zones for regular nrl games won’t be ideal especially on the east coast

West Coast our Saturday and Sunday day games are around prime times Friday and Saturday nights.

 

[Harry O]

Calm down. That’s probably a Super Bowl audience and there’s no way we will get that.

I read a article that it could reach a 100 gazillion people

 

[Wb1234]

West Coast our Saturday and Sunday day games are around prime times Friday and Saturday nights.

Yeh but we have eight games a round so to get even 100k for every game is a massive ask

start small and see how it goes

 

[Gobsmacked]

I read a article that it could reach a 100 gazillion people

That's a bit silly, half a gazillion maybe...a cajillion all day long.