[advocacy-discuss] Advocacy : SuperBowl half-time

[Calum Benson]

On 19 Jan 2009, at 09:15, Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:

>
>> Sun Microsystems was (is still?) already sponsoring F1
>> but I think it went almost unnoticed.
>>
>> And Superbowl Ads are not watched by 1 billion people.
>> The ads are usually replaced by local ads or more
>> comments on the game in other countries.
>
> People outside of the US watch the Superbowl?  Not many, I'm sure.

The NFL has a reasonable core following in Europe-- the Saints- 
Chargers game in London in October attracted a crowd of 83,000 for  
example.  Live games from the US don't get particularly large TV  
audiences for obvious reasons, however...

Cheeri,
Calum.

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