According to pro Jakob Johnson, the boom in American football and the NFL in Germany is simply due to its attractiveness. “For me, football is the most fun sport. There is hardly any sport that tells similar dramas and stories. It’s a contact sport, not as brutal as MMA, it’s still visible to families, but not as diva as, with all due respect, football, “said Stuttgarter serving the Las Vegas Raiders of the German news agency. first NFL game on German soil The Tampa Bay Buccaneers meet the Seattle Seahawks in Munich on Sunday (3:30 pm / ProSieben and ran.de).
Throughout Europe, Germany is a special case, “because for many years a great job has been done in club sports. Which is practiced even in very strange places is not necessarily big sport in big cities, but in villages like Schwäbisch Hall, “said Johnson, who himself took his first steps as a football player with the Stuttgart Scorpions and now he’s playing his fourth NFL season. “Then moderators were found introducing and explaining football in a fun way on free TV, and that’s when the momentum grew.”
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