Every thing is going to the end. The same unfortunately happens with this presentation. In the last part I will tell about a homeland of American football which is, as you probably know, USA.
In American football players are treated as heroes. They have fan clubs and earn a lot of money . If we are talking about salaries it will be good to mention a bit more about it. From last presentation you can remember that most of Polish players do not have any salary. Let’s compare this knowledge with salaries in the US teams.
New Orleans Saint quarter back gained in 2010 about 9 800 000 in one season. Running back from the same team gained $ 8 000 000 These are true salaries given by the club. You can add a bit more taken from, for example, advertisements. In my opinion it will double the amounts. Our Polish player Sebasian Janikowski, kicker from Oakland Raiders, is one of the best sportsmen in Poland. He signed a contract for next 4 years worth $ 16 000 000 .
http://www.sport.pl/
For comparison right know Rober Kubica is on the top of the list with 25 000 000zł earned in one season in Formula 1 with the Renault Team.
The main organization in USA is called the National Football League (NFL). It was established in 1920 and nowadays contains 32 teams around the United States. All league is divided into 4 divisions: East, North, South and West. In every season every team from the league plays 16 matches in 17 weeks of time.
After all seasons play-offs start. It consists of 6 best teams. 4 of them are champions from every division and 2 more on the "wild card" rules. The last and final match of tournament is called Super Bowl. I will tell you about it a bit later.
On the NFL website you can find almost every information which is important for real football fan and links to all American football teams.
http://www.nfl.com/
Festival of American Football - Super Bowl
Super Bowl is a final match for the American football championship. All of the ceremony is called Super Bowl Sunday and has become a national holiday. From most of years Super Bowl finals are most viewed sport transmissions in USA. Last Super Bowl final took in front of TV 111 000 000 of people. This entails huge costs of advertising. Advertiser are ready to pay unbelievable amounts for showing a bit of their products. It was said that FOX television took about 2 700 000$ for 30 seconds of time in every break in broadcasting. It gives $ 250 000 000 for all Super Bowl final.
http://wikipedia.org/
Here are statistics of last 3 Super Bowl Finals:
Date | Winner | Second Team | Result | City | Stadium |
1 lutego 2009 | Pittsburgh Steelers | Arizona Cardinals | 27-23 | Tampa | Raymond James Stadium |
7 lutego 2010 | New Orleans Saints | Indianapolis Colts | 31-17 | Miami | Sun Life Stadium |
6 lutego 2011 | Green Bay Packers | Pittsburgh Steelers | 31-25 | Arlington | Cowboys Stadium |
http://wikipedia.org/
I would like to make a bit of summary after all the weeks of American football.
First of all, I wanted to bring you a bit closer to this exotic, for Poles, sport. I hope it happened :).
Secondly, maybe some of you wanted to play as a child in a football team. Now it is possible, Polish league is developing really fast and will probably in the near future be able to compete with other European leagues. I am sure in next 5 years’ time there will be live broadcasts directly from Polish fields on TV.
Some last questions:
As you see, salaries in NFL are huge. Do you think money should control sport?
One wanted to be an astronaut, another a firefighter. Who did you want to be? Maybe a football player as I did ? :)