I don't understand why the European continent hasn't embraced American football. It is ironic, considering the Europeans spent the better part of the last two centuries murdering each other in war after war.
With Timeouts? I think not.
I think there’s two big problem Europe has embracing American football.
The first is that it’s American and it’s an important part of the European psyche to reject all American things.
The second is that when we tried to give them some football it was a pathetic minor league. American football is one of those sport that really doesn’t work well in the minors. Most other sports when two fairly evenly matched teams play the game is pretty entertaining, might not be the crispest and most dynamic play anybody has ever seen but it’s fun. Anybody that’s ever seen bad NFL teams (like the old “bay of pigs” days of Green Bay vs Tampa for instance) knows that when two bad football teams play it sucks. I think it’s because football is such a timing oriented game, if somebody is in the wrong place at the wrong time the whole play falls apart. I tried watching NFL Europe games and they were just bad, they were worse than 4th quarter pre-season NFL ball, I don’t blame the Europeans for not going.