From the BBC Sports pages, an interesting article on the immense popularity of college sports. In the US, college sports are covered on mainstream television.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/american_football/6153746.stmÂ
Here in LA, you see more people wearing the colours of the UCLA Bruins and USC Trojans than for any professional NFL team. Though, in the case of LA, the popularity of college gridiron is probably intensified by the lack of any NFL team.
The one time I have seen a significant number of people in NFL colours here in LA, was last Sunday on a flight up to Oakland. Just as you see football supporters in numbers at UK railway station, here it seems they can be seen at airports. I did wonder whether a man with his face painted black and white, the colours of the Oakland Raiders, had problems at security since his photo-id probably does have his face so decorated.
