A spot in the NFL's big game comes at a cost, though. Ask Bills fans in Buffalo, whose team ships one home game a year to Toronto and forced local government to shell out $200 million for stadium renovations just to get the team to stay in town for eight more years. Ask fans in Minnesota how psyched they felt at this time roughly two years ago, when Vikings management was threatening to move the team to Los Angeles before finally getting the state to fund a new stadium..The world's largest economy, which, even today, is larger than the combined GDP of the next 3 or 4 countries (the difference was far more a few years ago). Which are the big economies backing cricket? The UK (6), India (10) and Australia (12) (UN numbers for 2012). Their combined GDP can't match Japan, never mind China or the USA.

While there is a symbiotic relationship between the 2 sides, that has been for the most part lucrative, all but a handful of the thousands of players that pass through the league