
Stemming off of recent posts and the latest Rugby League in America Podcast, we invite you to add your thoughts and opinions on how best to grow the sport in the United States.
*PLEASE NOTE* If you decide to put any hate speech or anything else that is deemed to be in bad form you will be banned.
So please comment and your thoughts below.
I say this only half in jest: what you may need to do is to get "watering holes" (and not just exclusively sports bars) to put NRL or Super League highlights on the box at a time when there's not a competing "more major sport"-type event on, or even when there is, if they have enough sets. How you manage to convince them to do so is your business and calls upon your ingenuity. Now, this may create more fans than participants, unless many of the usual crowd at such establishments are rugby-bro types who till now have been union because "that's all that's out there." But exposure is what you want, and the word-of-mouth may find its way to potential participants, the more people there are spreading the League gospel.
I live in NY state, and I've even seen "NASCAR bars," if you can believe it. And it goes without saying that in The City, at any rate, there are a few "soccer bars" for aficionados of that code of football. I see no reason you couldn't give this idea a try (worth four points in League, not five...)
Anyhow, that's my not-so-facetious-as-it-may-sound-at-first suggestion.