New stadium thread

Maybe Amstel's not a well known brand in the US? Does seem strange, though.

 

Probably be to meet some NFL deal on exclusivity.

 

some bars did indeed run out of beer, as lots of fans (us included) arrived at 4 and starting drinking, and when game kicked off at 6 they continued as you were allowed to take drink in to the game - don’t think you can for the football

 

You can't drink in sight of the pitch, unfortunately.

Did you go to any of the NFL games at Wembley? If so, how did it compare?

 

the septics didn’t know what Beavertown meant lol, and didn’t understand the humour of Neck Oil either - but they drank loads

the food was very good - had the burger and tried the hot dog - both premium quality but knowing they were 50% dearer was a pisser

 

went to all the previous games at Wembley, and far better at WHL for view of the game and atmosphere (but that could be the fans as both sets are very vocal) and for food and drink service/quality. Wembley is awful for fans as once you get your food or drink there is no place to eat/drink other than the concourse.
So plenty of +points and only real negative is the price hike and lack of Spurs identity

 

Try spending a couple of seasons there...

The lack of Spurs identity appears to have been a deliberate thing for the NFL, from what I've seen.
There's normally tons of it about for our games and it all seems to have been removed or replaced, barring the massive emblem and the cockerel.
I said on the stadium thread that it didn't even look like our ground and it was genuinely unrecognisable from close-ups of the action.
Gigs and rugby matches will give us a better idea of how much it's the American football or if it's just like that for non-Spurs events.

 

Levy in the promo video calling the stadium a NFL and Football stadium was odd, to me it should be a Football ground that can also accommodate NFL/concerts/events

 

It is. He wouldn't tell a club that the player they're trying to sign from us is ****, either!

 

Too foreign-sounding, which scares Americans

 

Seems pretty clear that he is fishing for a whopping sponsorship deal or even possibly full naming rights. A lot of Spurs fans have been panicking about the lack of progress on both fronts, but reading back your match day reports it is obvious that both were purposefully delayed until we had a chance to really 'show off' what the stadium can do. The real money in sport is across the pond. Levy knows that.

 

Taken from Football London:


In 2015, U.S. Bank inked a £180m deal to put their name on the new Minnesota Vikings stadium, a building which Spurs took inspiration from for their new home, for 25 years.

The record for the highest amount overall sum paid for naming rights was for the Scotiabank Arena in 2017.

An enormous £654m 20-year deal was agreed between Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment and Canada's Bank of Nova Scotia to rename Toronto's Air Canada Centre, the home of the Toronto Maple Leafs ice hockey side and basketball outfit the Toronto Raptors. Just last month Social Finance agreed a mammoth deal to place their name on the Los Angeles Rams and Chargers' new home, which is set to open next year.

The deal for the SoFi Stadium, which will hold future Olympics and Superbowls, is reportedly worth more than £327m over 20 years, a similar sum to what insurance company MetLife signed for the New York Giants and Jets stadium in 2011.

Levy and Tottenham will have been well aware of the talks over the stadium in Los Angeles and with their own state-of-the-art stadium that has pushed the boundaries throughout its construction, they will look to beat that naming rights deal.

With Chelsea's stadium plans shelved for now and Liverpool deciding to expand rather than redevelop, Spurs are the biggest name on the block in the Premier League with a new stadium ready for a name.

Many have questioned why Spurs have waited so long to tie up any deal, but on Sunday night it all became clear.

 

It's this. Once the additional events start to stack up and are a success, the true brilliance of its design and function will reveal itself in what's going to be on the table.

When we can land a boxing event, some big name bands and hopefully an NFL franchise or increased NFL usage, then what we're selling is in a completely different league to any other stadium. Sure, other stadia can stage events...but not mid-season and only very short term. We could stage 3 or 4 consecutive nights of a band, without the pitch suffering any deterioration.

There have been interested parties (I saw an interview with our Corporate Manager a few weeks back) but the price hasn't been right, eventually that will change but it may be that the club will wait on the NFL franchise issue before accepting the best offer. If the stadium becomes the home of 'The London Spurs', then we're selling a whole different thing to a whole different market.

 

I went to the NFL match today. The overlap with normal Spurs fans was quite small as far as I could tell. A lot of Americans....really opening the club to a wider audience.

 

Unfortunate timing, considering our lack of any American players, barring the loaned out Carter-Vickers.
Maybe we should sign Josh Sargent from Werder Bremen, despite him being the gingerist player of all time?

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I think the razzermatazz that goes with American "football" is entertaining.What ruins it is the game. Stupid bloody thing!

 

Armando Shashoua is eligible for the USA of America, as well as England, Spain and Venezuela

 

Stadium looked a lot different

 

Really weird. I wonder how it will look for gigs and when the sky bar thingy is going to open?