Over 1 MILLION People Were In Line To Get Tickets To Dolphins vs Chiefs In Germany | Pat McAfee Show
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As a german, love that they talk about this. Ofc not going on much rn but still. Cool to here especially from pat
@@TheFutureofthePlanetno, it's actually not.. 🙄
They implemented a double verification system against bots. Maybe it helped. Maybe easy to Cheese. Idk
@@longjohn7289don’t act dumb. Anything with resell profit is getting scalped by botters
The only guy i know who actually managed to get a ticket used a bot
Honestly not that surprising to me, that atmosphere in Germany last year was incredible.
Even from the tv it was insane. If you didn’t know any better you would think it was like a late season very important game.
Field was like the Somme though. Hope the quality is better this year.
Every atmosphere outside of the US is amazing. “Sports fans” here just don’t know how to have fun in a game.
The Germany game was awesome, the fans were unreal
@@SchrodingerMilIt’s a soccer field after all. The surface isn’t designed with 300+ pound players going 0 to 100 in an instant in mind.
As a German NFL (Ravens) fan I can say that there have always been American Football/NFL fans but only with the rise of streaming services and social media were we able to actually form a big community.
Is there 🏈 in Germany?
Yes, the European League of Football
@@oliver_revilo badass, I didn't even know
@@ConorQuiring to be fair we have two leagues. The new ELF (European League of Football) which many are against at, beacause we already had a football league and they are now trying to commercialize it more with the new one and the GFL (German Football League)
@@tenorixberlin ELF is by any standard an amazing name for a sports league. If Will Ferrell is the commissioner, please go ahead and take all of my money 💰
As a German NFL fan, I read reports that amongst young people American football is now the second most popular sport to watch on TV. We’ve got an amazing fan base here and these ticket queues show that, unfortunately it’s impossible to get your hands on tickets. American football will never overtake football here ever but with now the European Football League growing more strongly, the NFL will really cement itself here.
That Germany game is gonna next level Great, high scoring shootout with Mahomes, Kelce, tua, hill
Please Pat, please invite Björn and Patrick to your Show. Would be a good time :D
I'm so proud of Börn Werner and Patrick Esume, what they have achieved with the ELF in Europe. It's a great counterpart to the NFL. And a huge chance for players in Europe to show how good they are. And to show how much Europeans love Amarcian football.
still in its infant stage though and financially not save and sound if I understand correctly, but that can change in a few years if they manage to keep the interest in a Not-NFL league high in Europe
@@6666Imperator You are right. Most of the players are amateurs (only 8 players per team are allowed to get payed more then 450 € per month). But the revenue is growing, they got a (very small) TV deal now, the average attendance rate is growing... it will take at least a decade or more of the same groth till the League can at least be at an XFL level, but the start is promising.
Im an expat who has been here for over 20 years. The amount of growth the NFL has experienced here is wild. You have casuals and diehards but either way the love for football has reached a new level. Two weeks ago I was at a local game with probably about 200 people and it felt like an old high stakes High School football game. Really awesome. Let’s hope it keeps trending in this direction
That’s insane but not surprising. Last year Seahawks vs Bucs game there was huge success playoff/Super Bowl atmosphere.
Some of the NFL Europe Teams are now playing in the ELF. The Frankfurt team is called Galaxy and the Berlin team is Thunder. And of course - Björn Werner is at the moment the owner of the Berlin Thunder Franchise
As a German Dolphins fan i am beyond ecstatic and still cannot believe that we got tickets
I'll be cheering as loud as I can in the upper ring with my Jarvis Landry jersey
Let’s go fins man 🙌🏽
Flochen hoch :)
I like the vibe in those european games. The chanting and all that thru the game feels much better.
As a German (you have to start with this phrase) it's easier to get tickets to London than for Frankfurt or Munich 😢😢
It’s a pleasure to get the acceptance that we the Germans are real football fans, it’s still an American sport art, but gonna celebrate the whole week when the nfl is there. We love it
I would love a Pat McAfee Show in a german arena with Live Audience!
There were actually 5 teams in Germany when NFL Europe was shut down. Duesseldurf Rhine Fire, Frankfurt Galaxy, Berlin Thunder, Cologne Centurions and Hamburg Sea Devils. All of those are franchises now in the European League Of Football which was founded by Coach Esume and youf former team mate Björn Werner is a minority owner of Berlin Thunder. In Germany we call him the Jerry Jones of Berlin Thunder. 😂
My position in the cue for tickets for the Chiefs vs Dolphins game was like 1.040.000. Maybe I will get lucky for the Patriots vs Colts game.
Patrick Esume is working with Björn Werner. He is the commissioner from the European League of Football.
Knowing the Europeans appreciate football is heartwarming. The Alliance is storng!
Feel bad for the German fans. I was 77,000th in the queue for the London games and managed to buy for my 2nd choice game. I think there was around 400,000 to 500,000 people in the queue. But 1.5m in the Germany queue is insane!
yes. but in germany they get the goodies. london over the last years only get teams with loosing records. germany gets the "bandwagon"/superbowl winner teams.
I was 2.8 Million in line for the second game in Frankfurt 😂
I couldn’t get a ticket. There were about 100 000 people ahead of me. Honestly, a part of me is glad. The prices were a total slap in the face ( concerts are too now but this is next level ridiculous).
Big Events, Sports or Music, really have to get away from "first come, first served". It's already a lottery, "do servers crash", "does my connection last", "how many tickets get bought out by bots from scalpers?".
So what they should do, is make it an actual lottery, everyone can register once for their address for a certain amount of tickets and then on a fixed date you do the lottery.
@@HDreamer or register a name for the ticket before you get in the queue so it won't go to bots
@@HDreamerit wasn’t first come, first served this time. You had to be logged in in the waiting room and once the sale began everybody got a random number in the queue.
@@BenBER527 Improvement then, still too reliable on the Internet connection in the moment.
Was in Germany for Oktoberfest last year and it surprised me the amount of NFL merch I saw locals wearing
Well it does help that its Mahomes and the Chiefs coming to town
Kelces A legit star now that helps
Goin this year missed out last year love living over here showing off my Eagles gear and talking football with Germans and love hearing how much they know the sport
Practically every School yard has a couple table tennis tables and there are School turnies in addition to having actual designated clubs for it
Im from germany and was at the Seahawks vs bucs game. We had one guy get four tickets and it was amazing. Nearly everybody was a real nfl fan, that's why the atmosphere was so good.
Now I was in queue for the Frankfurt game at 500k and my friend at 1,2 million, it felt impossible. The disgusting thing is, most tickets got to resellers who now demand like 2k for a ticket.
Bought a ticket for 250 Euro 🙈🙈🙈🙈 was at the Munich-Game last year too. It was just awesome 🙃😉 seeing Tom Brady and now in 2 weeks Mahomes … im so excited, hope for an amazing show
WE WANT NFL IN ITALY🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹❤☝
First u should get at least 2k for a milano seamen game
I just got 2 tickets to the Patriots game in Frankfurt. Got real lucky purchasing them. Woke up early, was 2.2 m in queue, sold out in 20 minutes, came home later that night and refreshed the page miraculously there was like 10 tickets keft unsold and i was able to buy a pair together at face value 👊
Yet again proves the NFL is King in America, and people overseas want a taste of it.
American football gets bigger in Europe and football gets bigger in US
Shout out to the ELF's Rhien Fire 2023 champions🔥🏆🔥
Been a fan since NFL Europe
@3:03 bro does the Nazi salute and goes “Nein, Nein, Nein” live on stream😂😭
The other Guy of Football Bromance is Patrick Esume, the biggest Name of American Football in Germany. He was in the Coaching Fellowship of the Oakland Raiders and the Cleveland Browns. He won as Headcoach of the France nationalteam the European Championship, he is a german TV Expert of Football and now he is the Commissioner of the European League of Football 💋👁
As a german I was in that que and I was place 17000 and I did everything to get a good spot for a ticket, like for real i tried everything to ensure a good spot. As well you should mention you had to register weeks ago to be in the que of over 1 million people so everyone in there had a register code to be able to buy a ticket. But most tickets went to resellers which is disgusting, the prices go up tp 3k-5k€. And I can just recommend Pat to do something in germany since there are a lot of fans and we dont have espn and so on. So a lot of germans actually watch your show. I think there is huge potential in germany for everyone invoved with the nfl.
I mean the NFL is definitely trending and there is a growing fan community here.
But the reason there are so many ticket requests must almost surely be because people from a lot of countries can simply drive there. Munich is easily reachable from Austria, Switzerland, northern Italy, Czechia etc.
Franfurt almost exactly is in the middle of Germany und thus Europe.
Huge airport too there.
Indeed, I believe it was in the 90's "Rhinefire" had in the old "Rheinstadion" an average attendance of 50,000.
And to add to it, to me anyways, just like the games in Mexico, because it's a neutral site, the crowd is constantly buzzing, so no heavy team favoritism. I think it makes the atmosphere more exciting and both teams seem to feed off of it.
I can tell you right away, I was in that line (I'm from east Germany) and I was sat behind about 1.4 million people if I remember correctly, I honestly thought it was some sort of error or something but then a couple of friends also said they'd been unable to get tickets because of the gigantic numbers so I think it might have actually been that many people xd
I was at the london games , germany was taking over there too
This is way bigger than Taylor swift lol
Soccer and NBA are always dominating and always bigger on Europe
but she will play now three times in a row in Gelsenkirchen (capacity of 62,000 in their arena)
@@felsenmeer5505Ya she's been filling out venue's for months now. I heard she gets 10 mil a show 💀
@@BobectorGamesBobector 10 mil a show, that's really impressive. My niece has registered for the show in Gelsenkirchen (where my favourite soccer team Schalke 04 plays). For my niece, huge Taylor fan, it would be a trip of only 15 miles 🙂
@@felsenmeer5505 Being a Schalke fan is rough :P
We got tickets..i ' m so excited. It will be the highlight event of this year..whoop whoooop..go Phins!!!!
I'm french living in Germany and I was in the queue with 1,29 million people ahead of me 😂
Shout out from Germany. I have seen my first American Football Game in Berlin in the late 80s. The GFL back than only American Football Bundesliga was established in 1979 and back than with a lot of ssupport by US military personell. Berlin Eagles (Adler) was my team back than. After that we had NFL Europe and with Frankfiurt Galaxy one of the best known teams. When the NFL Europe was closed in 2007 there were 3 German Teams Frankfurt Galaxy, Rhein Fire and Berlin Thunder. Those teams won 9 Championships in the NFL Europe in the 12 yrears of the NFL EWurope existing.
Of course Germany loves football, we named the Blitz after them!
Deutsche Community ✊✊✊
Also don't forget the St. Brown kids who grew up in Germany with a German mother. Amon-Ra's success gets even more fans involved than Germany would have anyway.
It's nice to see such a high number but some people just had fake bot/multiple accounts and now try to sell these tickets for up to 6x-10x the original price and that is the only thing I'm disappointed in.
As an austrian, i have to say that we also really like American Football.
Well... Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪 😀 🍻
We need more NFL in Germany. Greetings, and yea we love it, we love you ❤
You also have to remember that in europe we can travel to other countries really easily and cheaply. Those 1.5m arnt all german, or even mostly german i wouldnt think.
Also i dont get why everyone thinks its just service people, europeans like the nfl
Yep im from netherlands and i would love to go to Frankfurt
U r thinking wrong. Germany is by far the nr 1 football interested Land here
Honestly, @Pat I think yall underestimate the amount of NFL fans and German watchers of your show. Man, I think you could sell out arenas too in Germany with the Pat McAfee Show... no cap
Pat is right regarding what he is saying about "Ping Pong" here in Germany 🙂
Let’s go, Pat! Come to Germany, you’re going to sell out an arena! Lots of fans over here! Especially Munich ;)
There were 2 million people in front of me in the Colts vs. Patriots queue
Recently there was another Ticket Sale, and Pictures got Twittered that showed Waiting List Numbers that ran up to 2.3 Million.... We are just gettin started over here Boys
Football has become huge in Germany recently. Since three years we even have a professional European League of Football, and half of the teams are from Germany - old ones like Rhine Fire, Frankfurt Galaxy or Berlin Thunder, or completely new francises.
I’m stationed in Kaiserslautern and Frankfurt is an hour away. I didn’t get tickets in time 😢
as a german, i have to say that the ELF has absolutely nothing to do with the football hype here...
i was placed 2.5 Million when the patriots tickets went into sale... a lot of bots buying tickets.
Europeans have been playing American Football video games since the early 1990s. I started off playing John Madden Football and Joe Montana Sports Talk Football on the SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis. Lots of fans and the fans have always been there.
As a German Football Fan (Steelers) i Love Football and have tried to get Tickets for Frankfurt
Last Year in Munich was Amazing and i would like to see more Games here in Germany or in the Staats
4:42 I'd agree, when an american has a basketball net above their driveway, a german has a ping pong table at the back of the garage (I say this as a german with a ping pong table in my basement)
I was 1,448,000 in line for the Colts game...good thing I have an awesome season-ticket-holder as a father and was able to get pre-sale tix! SEE YOU IN NOVEMBER BOYS!!!
Pat wasn't wrong in saying some of the numbers might be fake. Not that they were not in the que but that a lot of those might be bots. For scalpers to resell at egregious prices.
Not to mention people queuing with multiple devices
You had to sign up first, then you received a code by email that you had to enter to join the queue... pretty safe, I assume? 🤷♂️
@@thedarkerknight22 True. It's hilarious that people really believe that 1 million people tried to get tickets haha.
It is because Germany is easier to reach for the whole europe instead of taking a plane and fly to London and spend the triple to attend a game. Itßs been 5 years since I first attended an -NFL game in London and I cannot stop. This time I paid double just to see my Ravens this october... Also count the fact that out of these 1.5 Milions at lest half a milions are bots trying to buy tickets to resell... it s a disaster
How many of those were bots buying tickets to dunp straight onto ticketmaster or the like?
Not enough to make the amount of real people not impressive
@@christianacosta3945 yet were highly successful in getting the tickets given the 100s of immediate postings of tickets from $800 up
I wonder if the desire is due to lack of availability though. I mean if the Olympics happened in my city, and I could get tickets I'd probably go because "Hey! It's the Olympics!" but if there's swimming events locally at a college I'm not going, because whatever.
Yes, thats part of it. But I would say at least 1/3 are true fans who stay awake every Thursday/Sunday/Monday night (games starts at 2.30 am german time) while going to work the next morning... So around 500k dedicated Football fans who would buy tickets several times a year, + maybe 500k casuals who would go once a year... + all the fans from around europe... People forget, that Paris-Frankfurt for example is just a 4 h trip by ICE (highspeed train) and costs around 60-70 €... or Rome-Munich is just a 1.5 hour flight that costs around 200 €...
So the fanbase in Germany (and in Europe overall) is big enough to sell out 10-20 games every year... without a problem! Not to mention all the different high level stadiums in germany alone... Dortmund (70k) Berlin (70 k) Munich (65k) Schalke (55k) Frankfurt (55k) Hamburg (55k) Stuttgart (55k) Düsseldorf (50k) ... Dont let me start with the rest pf Europe like Spain (Barcelona Madrid Sevilla) France (Paris Lyon Marseille) Italy (Milano Rome) more then enough venues to "spread it around".
German here. Let's hope that we can be as good hosts for you guys as we were the last time around! :D
This number is extremely biased. First of all, a lot of people tried to get a ticket using several devices. Second, Ticketmaster is bloated with ticket bots automatically buying tickets and reselling them later for a higher price. No way, one million people tried to buy a ticket for that game.
I was number 80,000 in the queue, did not get any tickets of course. Meanwhile tickets were already getting sold for 10x the normal price while the sale was still going on.
Its Time for The Universal Footbool Leauge :-)
I can really see the Chiefs eyeing for that Jaguars spot in Germany. They already have a cooperation with FC Bayern
They have the German territory. Got assigned to them 2 years ago. More suprised the game wasn't in Munich but in the tiny Frankfurt stadium.
Love to see it. Björn Werner, the owner of Berlin Something. 😂😂
This dude looks like he‘s on a reality TV show arguing with someone over the messy kitchen table
There are also some ppl from the netherlands who want to watch nfl games but it is for me a 8 hour drive with the car
I think I’ve heard Germany is the nfl second biggest market
Viele Grüße aus Deutschland! GUTEN TAG!
Wassup to all the Germans in the comments thanks for dirk here in Dallas
Germans are huge Chiefs fans.
The League is definitely looking at this like it's lost money until they can get teams over there to take advantage of the demand. How long until we get an overseas franchise (or more) again? This is enough people queued up to fill 20 stadiums. Think about that.
Queue for Chiefs vs. Dolphins was over 2.8 million people
As German fan I feel absolutely robbed by the sell of Gamepass to Dazn. Dazn is rubbish, streaming quality is worse and they plan nationalised broadcasts and ads! If they remove the original ads I don’t want any ads at all with that horrendous price. US commentary is way better too.
My mate had 1.4 million in front of him 😂😂
To explain the success of the NFL in Germany for those interested:
The TV channel that held the rights to the NFL games for years used some really progressive marketing techniques for the sport, they actively tried to revolutionize sports coverage in certain areas by making it more interacting with social medias many many years ago and have the sports commentators act to some extent in personas. For example there was one commentator always going crazy whenever a QB sneak was done giving incredible entertainment value to the play. They weren't afraid to be different than traditional sports media coverages, in fact they were actively trying to distinguish themelves from it.
And while I personally am no fan of american culture at all, the also tried to tie the american lifestyle experience to the game from the start, like getting yourself the bucket of Chicken Wings for the Super Bowl and while it could have backfired massively like in the business case of Walmart in Europe, it really hit the mark in Germany.
With all these decisions I'd say that RAN (the channel) was one of the first to do these things and it really opened the Sport up for a broader audience, now it's just about cultivating it even further.
The one thing I can guarantee is that the numbers are not fake and in fact they are even higher as many people didn't even try to get tickets knowing the current rush of demand.
To all American fans questioning these numbers I'd like to suggest you googling the Football (real football) fan culture in germany regarding away matches, especially internationally in the Champions League, we Germans tend to get a little bit carried away regarding sports.
Btw the national sport in Germany is classic football with an immeasureably amount of distance to 2nd & 3rd Place being the Winter Sports (Skiing and Biathlon) as well as Handball.
Generally speaking physical contact sports like Handball & Icehockey have a certain amount of popularity though which makes it easier for the NFL to gain a foothold in Germany.
Everyone comes in the jersey of their favorite team, drink beer together and we will sing again, because we are an NFL family in Germany🇩🇪❤️🇺🇸
Outside of Mexico and Canada I think American Football is bigger in Germany than it is in England and Brazil...which would be #2 and #3 respectively.
Damn, NFL sends always sends gem teams to Germany and spotted dick teams to England
Creating mini camps in Europe would be NUTS!! Give them 1on1 sessions with other teams or scrimmage sessions with top ELF Teams and it’s all the time sold out
Yeah. I am German and a NFL fan. Only thing with it is that I have to stay up all night to see it live. My boss is not always approving it 😄
But thank god they invented the NFL Game Pass
Peace out 🤘😎
we also got the nfl on free tv in germany
We would love to have you over here in Germany!
Bring more games to us they will be Sold out within Minutes and will be wild in the stands
Place 100.000... well, better than Top10, but still no chance in hell i could get a Ticket :(
Then why did NFL Europe fail if they love the NFL so much
Danke! Wir kommen aber auch aus der Schweiz und Österreich! Wir lieben American Football!!!
Let’s not forget that we fans in Europe also have to stay up pretty late to watch the mid-week games
Patrick Esume / Coach Esume, who is the commissioner of the European League of Football is the other podcast guy
German here 👋🏼😄 Did not even try to get a ticket…
Easier to get one in the US - been there for 2-times
But yes - we are die hard Football Fans 🥸
It was 4 teams solely in Germany in the NFL Europe: Düsseldorf Rhein Fire, Hamburg Sea Devils, Berlin Thunder and of course Frankfurt Galaxy.
Germany has some potential for team sports with a ball. 4 times football (you colonists call it soccer 😄) world champion, multiple times field hockey world champions, multiple times handball world champions, I know its not baseball or basketball but even hockey (the NHL stuff) we are currently Vice-World Champion, ok Hockey is not a ball to be played I know that, but a popular sport.
I myself have played Football in Germany too and therefore be interested and follow the NFL since 1990´s. It was about time the NFL showed up in Germany. And from the last game in Munich you know my people can celebrate and there´s a wide fan base and support for this beautiful and exciting sport.
So, C U soon in Germany!
Frankfurt had the biggest Team of the NFL Europe. Record Champion Frankfurt Galaxy.
It was over 1.7 actually. For one of the games. Let's see how many we will be for the second one, tickets will be on sale in july :D