It was a sell out. They always are. 90 thousand people watching the game. Will be again for Jags, 49ers.
A lot of different nationalities. Plenty of Americans, plenty of English.
I am thinking of going somewhere in midwest US. I was discussing it with friends earlier. I've done the big cities.
Although I am probably going to Seattle in 2014 or 15.
Seattle's stadium (dunno what the fuck it's called) is well-known for how loud it is. It's known as the 12th Man because the crowd often forces the visiting QBs to use hand signals to covey messages and plays, because they get so loud. Seattle also seems like a very nice, small city. Not too small, but it's no NYC, LA, Chicago, etc. It's pretty clean there too, from what I've heard, and there's everything there, from beaches to forests to mountains, etc.
I have to go to the Northwest myself, some time. The rest of my family has already been a few times because of my dad's conferences and they all enjoyed it.
And it's good to see others embracing the NFL overseas. I think if other countries started truly enjoying football but realized the politics at play and shadiness of the owners, it may build some leverage with fans. Americans are too stupid to realize they can stop going to the games to gain leverage with the NFL over issues like concussions, PEDs, and just some players being absolute morons (Aaron Hernandez).
But if the NFL tries to take teams overseas (that's a whole different debate) it would be nice if Europeans of the city the NFL is interested in throw their weight around and force the NFL to clean their shit at the door before they enter the UK or the rest of Europe.
Even if the NFL doesn't go overseas (I kinda hope they don't, just for the sake of travel times and time zones and all that), I hope at least the set up they have now sticks, where a few games are played there. And I think Euro fans would still have more leverage than US fans, and I doubt the NFL would back out of the games they already have scheduled in the UK because Britons ask them to get their shit together.