National Rugby League Touring in America for Sponsorships
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00:00 Sportscaster Rick Harrow inside the $1.3 trillion business of sports with your Sports News Minute.
00:08 How about the National Rugby League?
00:10 Not America's, but Australia's, but they come touring America in the hopes of sponsorship,
00:16 maybe showing off some of their punters, given the number of Australian rules football and
00:21 rugby players who are punters in the NFL.
00:24 That's not why.
00:25 They're doing it for the money.
00:26 They're doing it for sponsorship.
00:27 They're doing it for television on Fox, Hugh Jackman, a big fan, was supposed to show up
00:31 at one of the games in Vegas, did not, but 40,000 other people did and brought rugby
00:37 center stage.
00:38 Rugby sevens, obviously a major Olympic event, but more than that, this is one of those events
00:44 that crosses over as one of the big C and B scene, Titanic events in Vegas.
00:50 It's not the Super Bowl.
00:51 It's not Formula One, not a college football playoff game, but it is one of the biggest
00:55 events that the rugby league has on its calendar and more to come.
01:00 Sports Professor Rick Caro, Sports News Minute.
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