With the White Hart Lane (aka Tottenham Hotspur Stadium) being named home of #NFL in the UK, how does this raise the profile of Spurs in the US? Are we a big team in America or relatively unknown?
@hallenbeck@spurs (note: I own a bar that opens early on the weekends for European football)
These days there are quite a few people who follow the PL in the US, I’d say Tottenham is decently popular, but City, Chelsea and Liverpool are way more popular, and united and arsenal are probably still more popular as well, although not by much.
It’s mostly because it has only gotten easy to watch PL matches in the last 10-15 years.
Not sure the NFL thing changes much since there is actually relatively little overlap between soccer (sorry) fans and football (American) fans. Your average NFL watcher would think that a Tottenham Hotspur sounds like something made up, and soccer (sorry again) people are watching PL, MLS and champions league/international tournaments and not NFL for the most part.
@christopher@hallenbeck@spurs From my limited vantage point, European football in the USA is difficult to pin down. I see Arsenal, Man U, Chelsea, and Liverpool having the most adherents. Before you'd get to Spurs, you'd see FC Barcelona, Real Madrid, PSG. Then you'd see Spurs, West Ham, Everton (yes! Everton!). You also see non-US country support—people wearing Messi Argentina kits, or Neymar Brazil ones.
The Italian leagues don't really rate. Bundesliga gets national TV coverage here, but I never see anyone in a Bayern jersey or supporting them online.
Suprised gooners are so big over there. Manchester United and Liverpool I can understand because, like Real, Barca, and PSG, they seem to be brands that defy geography and you see shirts in every town I visit here pretty much. But the London clubs you see far fewer shirts about outside of the south east.
Bundesliga clubs don't get much love here either. Can't say I knew what their jersey looked like until "that" press conference with Ange 😆
@hallenbeck@spurs Ha! True. There is at least one Korean kicker, so Sonny is out of luck. But no Englishmen to my knowledge, so he can break new ground.
Trying to picture former Spurs players that could be kickers, I think I would take Erickson, and weirdly, Klinsman over Harry though…
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