Burnley FC and Rapids

It is said that sporting events of our day, originate from ancient games and crowds witnessing the participating athletes— similar to the gladiator-type events held in Rome, sports are community-driven happenings where people congregate to take part in observing the incredible skill of individuals playing on a team within an arena of extraordinary commercial opportunity.

Recently, Rapids has struck an accord with Burnley Football Club— an English Football team within the Premier League, the top league amongst English football. Rapids is now an officially appointed member of Burnley FC!

Burnley FC has a long and proud history of English Football as only 9 months after their assembly, they moved from their origins to their home base field of Turf Moor Stadium in 1883. Located in Burnley, Lancashire, Turf Moor has an impressive seating capacity of just under 22,000 people. If we think of advertisements and the way they fit into sporting events, you will start to see a clear picture of the colossal achievement this is for Rapids and the possibilities this affords to our mass adoption efforts.

If Turf Moor’s numbers haven’t yet affected you, Burnley FC is part of the English Premier League which happens to be the sports league that commands the largest audience in the world, consisting of a potential viewership of 4.7 Billion people worldwide. Estimates of their viewing audience per event are within the 1.2 Billion range, offering an astounding platform for publicity, and providing some of the most impressive numbers of promotion. Rapids will be one of the several brands touted upon the Premier League stage as Burnley FC competes against other top-watched English Football teams.

Just a quick hop over to Burnley FC’s website displays many of the Club Partners and other strategic associations Burnley FC has called BOAs: By Official Appointment, which are other Club alliances such as Rapids. The BOA list includes some big names in various industries, guaranteed to turn some heads with the Rapids logo presented alongside. Some of these BOA members include prominent companies such as:

• Puma
• Holiday Inn
• Sealy

As Rapids is a social media cryptocurrency, it is only relevant to mention the social media stats for Burnley FC as well. Their Facebook account has just over 410,000 followers right now, Twitter has just under 400,000 followers, and their Instagram has over 222,000 followers. This is a lot of people outside of typical cryptocurrency communities that will now see Rapids for the powerhouse cryptocurrency, community, and social networking platform that it is.

With Burnley FC showcasing Rapids throughout their games, across their stadium, and across their advertising campaigns, the alliance with this world-renowned Football team will assuredly promote the communal spirit of the Rapids community and get more people asking about the Rapids Network.