Craig Hutchison

Rams versus 49ers, Packers v. Rams on Thanksgiving Eve, Christmas Day Packers-Bears, Bill's Broncos Christmas Eve, and then a special one to finish.

They're big games, aren't they?

The rivalry games that they've managed to carve out, they're huge.

Shows you how big the Melbourne game is.

Was it the Bears game?

Yeah.

They're huge games, huge rivalry.

And the old 200-plus countries demo.

209, isn't it?

Well, they're still striving to get the Melbourne Cup 209, even though the United Nations says only 195 countries exist.

But I'm surprised it didn't get more media oxygen.

Again, take this the right way.

Does anyone really care here in Melbourne, though, about it?

I say it the right way because I thought it was going to be on Channel 7.

I must admit.

The reports of the last year were about 75 million a game by the NFL.

So that's-

I would think if you use Melbourne as a proxy for that, that's a roughly what they paid about 75 or 80 million for that game globally.

It's a lot of investment, isn't it?

Yeah.