Mexico has a league (LFA). Check out their YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@lfaprofesionalmx
ESPN profiled the league in an article last year: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/35881608/how-mexico-pro-football-league-building-brand-established-players-north-border
Awesome, thank you! I just subscribed to their YouTube channel. They have some full games on there which is perfect. Are you a fan of any of those teams?
They also play college football, mostly in the North. I understand the quality of play is about D3.
I only know about the league from reading the ESPN article a while back. But what the hell, I may as well pick a team. As of right now I'm a Galgos fan since that's the team whose hometown I have been closest to.
I like the logo for that one. The blue chicken is pretty sharp looking too. If I pick off logos I’m going with Raptors de Naucalpan.
Or if I become a bandwagon I could follow the Caudillos.
American football is, well, American... In Argentina we play Rugby, which is not entirely different as far as I understand.
It's same, but different, but same. But different.
It's like american football, but there are no "downs", there's less protective equipment and you aren't allowed to throw forward
My US town just got its first adult recreational rugby league and I'm kind of excited to see when their games are. Don't know anyone in the league, but hey. It's something to do.
American football just isn't a thing in any other country I've visited. If you want to follow and become a fan of a team, It's going to be soccer, maybe baseball in the Caribbean.
There are other sports that are televised in various countries, but for pure fan passion, it's local futbol all the way.
You know what it's like at the "Irish Pub" during the world cup, when everyone packs in and you can't help but yell your head off for a goal scored by someone you've never heard of? That's what you get for a random Boca Juniors match in Buenos Aires. It's absolutely infectious.
If you want to follow and become a fan of a team, It's going to be soccer, maybe baseball in the Caribbean.
Funny enough, Japan is HUGE on baseball. I sometimes wonder if the MLB would allow Japan to play, I think.it would be fun to see.
It would be crazy if MLB was able to incorporate foreign leagues into its structure, even if it was just to make the World Series an actual world series.
That would be interesting, but the logistics involving traveling would be hell. There is the World Baseball Classic, but that's more like the World Cup where national teams play each other every 4 years instead of a league like MLB with multiple teams per country competing for an annual title.
What countries have you visited? American football is gaining popularity in a lot of other countries, especially the UK.
Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Australia, Japan, India - all have American football leagues
We might have a league in Australia, but if we do, I've never heard of it. Popular might be too strong a word...
Every single state and the ACT have leagues. I would definitely describe it as popular. NFL games are played on free to air live every week.
That's not a metric. There's a local league for damn near every sport in most developed countries. That doesn't make the sports popular. It just makes it a sport in a competitive setting.
Other countries view it with curiosity, but gaining popularity is a strong statement. It wasn't even viewable most of the time when I was over there last.
eta: Canada plays Canadian Football. It's certainly as old as American football.
I think that their point is that it's not popular enough to be broadcasted on TV (with exception). In my European city, there is an American football club (just checked), so if I want to play, and I have no doubt that there is a competitive league (almost every sport has it). However, just like 95% of the sport it's not broadcasted on TV (Well may-be in the middle of the night on Eurosport, that channel even broadcasts competitive fishing) so people don't hear about it (But most sport aren't really massively popular beside football/tennis/rugby/cycling/formula 1. The rest you hear at best during the olympics or specialized media)
You think right. That's essentially what I was trying to say. To amplify, there's also going to be almost no opportunity to use any vocabulary learned watching American football. You'd be like that weirdo who can't shut up about rugby.
I don't know anyone here in the UK who watches any American Football except a couple of folks who watch the super bowl.
It's way too slow for one thing, everyone spends all their time standing around. Having something like football or rugby where it's constant game for the entire match, excluding 1/2 time break, you can have international rivalry, make both are more interesting to watch as well.
Canada has Canadian Football.
If you are from the US, is it possible that there is Spanish audio (SAP) for the NFL and college games?
I just looked into it and I’m not seeing it on YouTube TV. If I could have my college team in Spanish would definitely be ideal so I’ll try to look into it a little more
Part of learning language is learning culture. Watch soccer. Sth America LOVES it (and are amazing at it)
Universo shows the games in Spanish, I believe it's part of Peacock
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