{"id":35825,"date":"2026-10-05T06:18:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T06:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nfl-london-money-grab-or-celebration-london-series-begins-amid-anger-over-ticket-prices\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T06:18:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T06:18:57","slug":"nfl-london-money-grab-or-celebration-london-series-begins-amid-anger-over-ticket-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nfl-london-money-grab-or-celebration-london-series-begins-amid-anger-over-ticket-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL London: &#8216;Money-grab&#8217; or celebration? London series begins amid anger over ticket prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport spoke to dozens of fans at Sunday&#8217;s game and none of them were aware ticket prices had dropped. None seemed to care either.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">American fans know the London games don&#8217;t provide the same tailgating experience they get back home, but they &#8211; and the players &#8211; are still fascinated by the eclectic crowd at international games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fans still travel from all over the UK, Europe and the US, wearing jerseys of all the NFL teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s still one of the greatest sporting events that neutrals can go to,&#8221; said Dave. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s any other sport where you&#8217;d get tens of thousands watching teams they don&#8217;t support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was always a celebration of the game. People would go for the love of the sport rather than the two teams that were playing and I think that&#8217;s still the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It sure felt like a Washington home game when they recovered a Colts fumble on just the game&#8217;s second play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The crowd produced an even bigger roar when third-choice quarterback Athan Kaliakmanis &#8211; replacing the injured Marcus Mariota &#8211; made a 47-yard touchdown pass to Treylon Burks in the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Commanders thought they had drawn level when Antonio Williams ran in an 87-yard score, but the touchdown was chalked off for a Washington penalty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Indianapolis quarterback Daniel Jones then got in to seal their success, with Jonathan Taylor having run in two touchdowns for the Colts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/american-football\/articles\/cqwyrlk27e7ro?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Sport spoke to dozens of fans at Sunday&#8217;s game and none of them were aware ticket prices had dropped. None seemed to care either. American fans know the London games don&#8217;t provide the same tailgating experience they get back home, but they &#8211; and the players &#8211; are still fascinated by the eclectic crowd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35827,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35825\/revisions\/35827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}