The NFL Draft has become an event onto itself, which alonespeaks to the power and popularity of professional football despite all the concussion concerns of recent weeks.
But during the campaign he stressed other matters: alone among the candidates he has experience of government, speaks half-decent French and has lived in all regions of Canada.
The Greek political class already looks quite detached from the people - many Greeks joke that Mr Papandreou himself speaks better Swedish than Greek, and is not alone in having swapped Greek "cred" for Anglo-Saxon "cred".