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Dyhard:Homecoming Week said 06/11, 12:10 PM
Alright...I'll try it again.

The 39th game is a good way to expand their league's viewing area to over here, and have people who live in North and South America who don't know about the English Premier League to see a game and see it live.

This is also a good way to get more people to be able to watch the EPL and also to put merchandise from the league, and find a favorite team. more viewers and more merchandise bought means more money. That is always a good thing.

The NFL is doing it with a game in London each year as last year they did it with the Giants and the Dolphins. This year they are going to do another game to expand the league.

The MLB did that earlier this year with a game in Japan. They already have enough viewers in Japan, why would they need to go? Well...they wanted more.

Anyway...it shows that the two most popular sports in the US are expanding to other countries.

The NBA is even trying to do that, with a couple ofthe games in China, the preseason games, but it is still a game.

That is the same incentive that the EPL has...to expand their viewers.

People see that matchup, but they don't see EPL matchups. good way to get more viewers.

Dyhard:Homecoming Week said 06/11, 11:36 PM
It is going to offer us bigger and better soccer, and help out to get them more money. Yes, they might be very wealthy already, but the rich want to get richer, so that is what they want to do. Yes, it might not be for the right reason, but that is what they are trying to do. This is ultimately trying to get the EPL to be more popular for more money.

A lot of people don't know the EPL very well, and it coming over here to the United States and playing a 39th game helps us to get to know it better, get a favorite team, favorite players, and buy the merchandise and go to the games so the teams and the EPL get more money, so they can become even wealthier.

The 39th game is helping out the EPL, but if people start paying attention a little more to the MLS then they would be getting more cash too. Plus, with all the wealth the EPL has, they could share it to the MLS.

Why would people want to spend a lot of cash to book a flight to England and watch a EPL league game? If the game comes here, they don't have to do it, and they will learn more about the Fox Soccer Channel and they will want to watch the EPL on it, if you advertise it at the games.

The 39th game is good.

Dyhard:Homecoming Week said 06/12, 09:09 AM
Soccer is not big here. If they play an EPL game here, more and more people are going to start liking soccer. Look at all the people on FanNation that like soccer. Do you think they are all from England? No..but they have seen soccer played, and thought it was fun to watch and maybe play.

That is just because people have seen games live. Games in person is more fun than games that you have to see on television.

If the EPL comes over here for a 39th game, they are trying to expand their fanbase and have people watching their games from all over the world, instead of just in England. That is a good marketing techinique and gets a lot of people to start paying attention to the EPL who haven't in recent years.

Soccer isn't big here, and with the help of the EPL, the MLS will get more fans.

Because the EPL is already big, why can't it get bigger? It might be the biggest one already, but it can get bigger. They want to have even more cash at their hands, they want to have even more people going to the games, and that is what you are going to get when they come here and play, more attendance, and more money.

This is mostly for money reasons and it is a good idea.