There should be a World Cup for American Football

The world is changing. With faster communication, satellite television, and air travel. Any one anywhere can communicate with people all over the world about sports, watch sporting events from all over the world, and even fly to any sporting event anywhere in the world. The ultimate winner from this has been the World Cup of Soccer (To simplify this debate I will use Soccer for the international game of Futball and Football for the American game of football.) What happens there? Countries send teams from all over the world, that spend the two leading up years trying to qualify, to the world's biggest stage, with the game's biggest stars, competing in a tournament with team as well as national pride on the line. FIFA (The international soccer organization) rakes in the money on their ideal invention, Qualify countries rake in money and international exposure and pride for winning. The world stands still and the entire sports world turns to one event that is seen all over the world. In America, we have long dis-enfranchised soccer, we set out to make a new and better sport: We call it football. And to America's credit, we have certainly embraced the sport. Developing it to a level of local pride and power that no use leagues or even our own US national teams can compete with: The NFL. The world stands still for soccer, America football. The problem with the American dream to create a sport to compete with soccer is that they actually have to compete with it not hide in their own corner and pout. Football, like soccer, has to become an international sport, contended on a world level, that does not limit its to the confines of the US. The will to play the sport is constently expanding, the sport itself is perhaps even expanding faster then American perception. The fear is that if we let other people play our sport, they might get better at it then us. Though the US may not be able to keep its dominance in the sport forever, like in Basketball, a little competition isn't that bad is it? What I'm proposing is a World Cup, or International competition of Football, where teams from around the world send national teams to advance the game to its highest level. The Format of the Cup would depend on the number of teams participating, obviously if to many want to participate then the issue would arise for regional qualifying and such, but the simple truth remains the need exists. The goal and orginal purpose of Football was to contend with soccer, and the only way to do that is to take the competition inter-national. The main American resent is that no one else plays, so why bother? If you build it, they will come. http://pointme.to... Illustrates numerous international Football sites and leagues (though some outdated) which Play Football. The obvious initial entries would be the United States, Canada, Mexico, Great Britian, Germany, Japan, and China. Several other European countries show interest, and small countries would probally jump in at least at first just to fill numbers and get international exposure. Yes, it is true the competition could get lopsided if NFL plays all go in on the side of the US, but playing gap would thin out and competition would increase. Even international Soccer competition outside of the upper crust is extremely titled to the bigger teams who's talent alone allow them to crush their opponents. Though constents blow outs wouldn't be fun, some games would be close. If not necessarily the US's games, the other competition would be on the same field. International Basketball has grown even with the US as a dominating leader in the sport really unbeaten when they try, however through time and exposure of the game, the sport has been able to grow in ways previously unimaginable. http://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com... The sportsbusiness Journal reports the NFL in 9 Billion dollars in debt, that was over a year ago so no it probally a lot more. The NFL despite its huge popularity and selling out its games is running a defecit due to the few amount of games played and the large stadiums they build and then allow to sit empty most of the year. Cities could bid on having the world cup of football and thus bring in money, and if the NFL was smart they could create the world cup and thus add to their revenues with very little actual cost out put because the Stadiums are already built so just play in one of them. The World Cup could even be played in the Spring/Summer to give football fans, going through off-season withdrawl, the abiality to see new live football action with some of their favorite stars. The enjoyment of the Nation watching the redeem team this year capture the gold in Beijing could be seen on a football field. The Cup could be stage ever 2 or four years, but probally 2 since they won't add it as an Olympic sport. Having international games in the off-season would allow fans to get tastes football all year round, and also promote international fans with a taste of the NFL drawing in more viewers and potential markets for the NFL to dive into. A Football World Cup would be very profitable to anyone who hosted, I mean if Colleges can bring in 60,000 for their spring games (which are inter-squad), I think a little real competition would go over with the public quiet well. The Purpuse of football was to compete with the world, and untill they do that its purpose will not be achieved.