NFL to be Football’s MVP?

A converted Englishman speaks the truth about how the rise of the NFL could spell the downfall of ‘The Beautiful Game’. This is the damning verdict of 18-year Jack Rawlinson who spoke with our reporter, Chris Mitchell earlier this week.

As an avid fan of the Philadelphia Eagles for the past 6 years, it comes as no surprise that this young journalist from the small town of Benfleet in Essex is predicting the death of football in England due to the global commercialization of the game in modern times. Compared to the giant franchises of American Football teams this may seem quite rich in terms of Hypocrisy, but this is not a view based in the realms of fantasy.

Although a Tottenham fan at heart Jack’s recent sporting highlights include Bret Favre’s last second 32- yard touchdown pass in his Minnesota Vikings win over Cleveland Browns. The reason for this change of interest to what is regarded a niche sport in England is deep seated from the recent invasion of foreigners in the English game-something that is unheard of in the NFL.

Allied with America’s determination to achieve global success, which now brings one regular season game of American Football to England per season compared to the Premier League’s reluctance to allow overseas games, there seems there is little stopping this sport going onto global domination.

“In America there is a ‘Win as a team, Lose as a team’ mentality” explains Jack “whereas in football there is constant vilification of players- such as Paul Robinson for England”. In America there is a constant team based mentality Win, Lose or Tie. And with the draft pick providing an additional exciting element in stark contrast to the Billionaire Boys Clubs that currently pull the purse strings in the Football world.

So can football rebel against this seemingly spiraling world of multi million pound buy outs and escalating transfers fees or is it just a matter of time before the Nfl corner the English market and punt football into touch?