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| 16th January, 2007 - 2:15 pm | ESPN - London will hold the NFL's first regular-season game outside North America, the start of an international campaign to take American football to a global audience.
"There's great history of NFL football in London, and British fans have been great fans of football over the years," NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said Tuesday. "We're confident that this game is going be a great success in London and will be a great foundation to play more games there going forward."
The opponents for the 2007 contest have yet to be announced, but the Miami Dolphins and New York Giants are reported among the top possibilities.
"They are two of the teams that have expressed an interest and we'll narrow it down to which two teams will generate the most enthusiasm for the fans in London and the broader U.K.," Goodell said. [READ] |
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