Why is american football only popular in America?

10 comments

1. Other countries can’t/won’t git gud.

2. It’s an American sport

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFAF_World_Championship

   Briefly, you’re wrong.

4. Speaking as someone who does not really follow sports, I do know Canada and Australia both have their own brand of gridiron.

5. There are efforts to make American Football global, an example would be the London game the NFL does every year (I’m not sure if that’s still a thing due to Covid.) My guess is that the international community isn’t interested in the sport.

6. My guess is that the training + equipment + facilities + insurance is too expensive for most countries to be interested in getting started.

7. Mostly because people in other countries already had other sports that were really popular before the NFL started marketing themselves internationally.

   For a sport to be popular, people have to care, and if they’re already heavily invested in soccer, then it’s an uphill battle for a second sport to get traction.

8. It’s an American sport that is extremely complex, expensive and difficult to play. Even in the US, football is entirely institutionalized because it just isn’t realistically capable of being played amateurly.

9. Its kinda well our version of football, not many countries play our style of football because they have their own.

10. Other countries don’t have the history/culture with American football that the US has.

    Also fairly expensive and complicated to get into.