London calling: Ticket requests pouring in for overseas NFL game

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LONDON (AP) -- The NFL's first regular-season game outside North America already looks like a big hit.

More than 500,000 tickets were requested by about 160,000 fans in the three days following Friday's official announcement, the NFL said Wednesday.

The ticket request process ends Feb. 18, two months before tickets go on sale for the Oct. 28 game between the Miami Dolphins and the New York Giants at Wembley Stadium.

Wembley is expecting to seat between 85,000-90,000 for the game.

"Nearly all these requests have come from UK based fans," said Alistair Kirkwood, the managing director of NFL UK. "These figures do not take into account the allocation of tickets for Dolphins and Giants fans from the United States, so we anticipate a very quick sellout when tickets go on sale in early March."

On Sunday, more than 4,000 fans gathered in London to watch the Super Bowl at Super Bash, which is in its fourth year.
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:( :banghead:
 
Tickets for the NFL regular season game at Wembley between the Miami Dolphins and New York Giants will go on sale on May 16 to the lucky ones among those who have registered to buy seats for the historic occasion.

Within 72 hours of the NFL announcing the first competitive game to be played outside of North America, nfluk.com received requests for more than half a million tickets to its special registration site.

Next week, an email will be sent out to registrants, confirming details of the on-sale date and procedure.
Prior to May 16, the first group of registrants to get lucky in the lottery for tickets will receive a further email giving them details of the next steps they have to take. Notification will include details on pricing and how many tickets individual applicants are able to buy.

Alistair Kirkwood, managing director of NFL UK, explained: “It is taking time for us to move this process forward, partly because we want everything to run as smoothly as possible. Beyond the May 16 offer there will be further opportunities to buy tickets so don’t despair if you are not among the first group to be given the chance to purchase.”
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Still hopeful...
 
Maybe they just need to schedule more games ... :wink:

... Bob (Grateful Diver)
 
I'm curious, EO....how many Amsterdam Admirals games have you been to? :D
 
We've had season tickets for the last 10 years...
 
This year, they've made the schedule very interesting. We could have had season tickets for Duesseldorf and Koeln as well...
 
Over here, it's being referred to as NFL Europa now. Was that name-change made over there, as well?
 
Is the NFL popular in Europe? When I watch the NFL-Europa games over here, the stadiums don't look like they are sold out. I figured that "football" wasn't catching on to well over there :)
 
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