FILE - Australia's Josh Addo-Carr celebrates at the end of the Rugby League World Cup final match between Australia and Samoa at the Old Trafford Stadium in Manchester, England, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022. When deciding whether to try to expand its impact to the United States, Australia's National Rugby League used a distinctly American sport as a model. A doubleheader Saturday night, March 2, 2024, at Las Vegas' Allegiant Stadium, which hosted the Super Bowl on Feb. 11, will be televised nationally in the U.S. on FS1.(AP Photo/Jon Super, File)
South sydney rabbitohs — Each year, most of the sports world observes the Super Bowl.
Within the case of Super Bowl 2024, played three weeks back at Allegiant Stadium, there was a outside group that took particularly sharp intrigued within the NFL’s marquee amusement, won by the Kansas City Chiefs over the San Francisco 49ers.
Those included in Australia’s National Rugby Association (NRL) were stuck to their individual TVs and spilling gadgets since their item was progressing to be showcased on the exceptionally grass where Patrick Mahomes performed his enchantment for the Chiefs in 21 days.
Damien Cook of the Rabbitohs runs with the ball.
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Damien Cook of the Rabbitohs runs with the ball.
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The NRL is including the Masculine Ocean Hawks against the South Sydney Rabbitohs and the Brisbane Broncos against the Sydney Chickens Saturday night at Allegiant Stadium.
And it’s barely been misplaced on the players from the four groups that they will be exhibiting their gifts on the same turf as where one of the greatest donning exhibitions within the world was fair played.
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“Being able to play on the same field as the Super Bowl some weeks prior is amazing,” Damien Cook from the Rabbitohs told The Post. “We all observed the amusement together as a group. We have a part of NFL fans over the (NRL) alliance as well. As an competitor, to play on the same grounds is special.”
Cook said he’s been an Hawks fan since he was youthful and has as it were seen one NFL diversion live, a 49ers amusement at the ancient Candlestick Park.
“To be playing within the same stadium as where the Super Bowl was fair played is extraordinary, man,” Manly’s Aaron Woods told The Post. “I never would have thought in my lifetime — and this can be my 14th year playing in Rugby Alliance — that I’d be able to advance the amusement I cherish in another country. It fair appears that anything’s conceivable in the world.”
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Travis Kelce has his share of fans down beneath.
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James Tedesco, the captain of the Roosters conjointly Australia’s national group, the Kangaroos, uncovered to The Post that he’s a Chiefs fan, but it’s not what you think, which may be a front-runner.
“In 2018 when I have to be the Chickens, I didn’t know much almost the NFL but a lot of the boys there adored it and they all wore NFL shirts for the ‘captains runs’ some time recently games,” Tedesco said. “So, they said, ‘You’ve ought to get a jersey.’ One of my colleagues said, ‘You need to get a Kareem Chase shirt; he’s a extraordinary running back who plays for the Chiefs.’
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“So, I got a Kareem Hunt shirt and after that year, he cleared out the Chiefs and that’s when Mahomes came on. So, I truly got fortunate. Enjoyed the colors and from at that point on, was the begin of their tradition. Incredible timing. Individuals might think of it as a bit of a temporary fad thing, but it was coincidence and timing.
“Since at that point, I’ve fair adored observing Patrick Mahomes go approximately his work and Travis Kelce as well and now (running back Isiah) Pacheco and folks like (recipient) Rashee Rice. I’m moreover a enormous Christian McCaffrey fan as well, observing him play and how he runs the ball.”
Tedesco said he watched the Super Bowl final month considering, “Wow, we’re progressing to be sharing the same field as those guys.”
“We were all observing the Super Bowl together as a group, so seeing the minutes that were made on that pitch with Mahomes and those guys, it will be lovely cool for us to form a few recollections as well,” Tedesco said.
From a media angle, Yvonne Sampson, a Fox media identity who broadcasts NRL, said she observed this year’s Super Bowl “through a diverse lens” knowing she was planning to be doing appears from the same sets as Fox’s NFL broadcast groups were final month.
vonne Sampson acknowledges the AACTA Membership Tv Grant for Best Female Moderator amid the 2019 AACTA Grants Displayed by Foxtel
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Yvonne Sampson acknowledges the AACTA Membership Tv Grant for Best Female Moderator amid the 2019 AACTA Grants Displayed by Foxtel.
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“Watching the Super Bowl and seeing Allegiant Stadium under the brightest lights wear can offer truly brought the full thing into focus and into reality for us and our humble little Rugby League to be on the same turf,” Sampson told The Post. “For us to be able to require our diversion, which truly began as a bit of a working-class branch from Rugby Union in England and for us to bring Rugby Association to America and to play for Prevalence focuses with four of our box-office groups there with a few of the greatest stars within the diversion, ideally Americans will drop in cherish with it fair as we have.”
Sampson sounded in amazement of the way American TV produces and broadcasts the NFL item.
“I think American sports broadcast is the epitome,” she said. “It’s box office. The way that American sports fans are conveyed the game is such a wonderful and cleaned item. I observed it as a broadcaster and am in wonder of the chimes and shrieks and traps and development and the color and the amusement esteem that’s infused in and the way you make it engaging for individuals to sit within the consolation of their possess homes and feel like they’re exceptionally near to the diversion.
“I observed the Super Bowl from a diverse focal point and envisioned our small Rugby League teams running onto that same field and thought, ‘My gosh, the actual turf at Allegiant Stadium, we’re planning to be standing on that same fix of grass beneath those same bright lights.’
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“And, since of our relationship with Fox Sports U.S., we’re going to be using those Super Bowl sets,” she went on. “We’re going to be able to convey our amusement of Rugby Association in an awfully elevated way that we’ve never seen before.”
Tickets for the NRL matches are accessible and can be acquired through Ticketmaster, with the costs beginning as moo as $19 — a distant cry from the least face-value cost of a Super Bowl ticket last month ($950). Seats within the lower tier start from $39 and go up to $189 for club seats.
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