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gazzae
16-01-2007, 16:28
Great news for NFL fans in the UK!

London to host 2007 regular-season game

(Jan. 16, 2007) -- London will be the venue for the first regular-season NFL game to be played outside North America, the National Football League announced.

The NFL will stage the first in its new series of international regular-season games in the United Kingdom's capital city in the fall of 2007. NFL owners voted in October to play up to two games outside the United States every year for the next five years, with the series kicking off with a single game in 2007.

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More details about the London game -- including the venue and participating teams -- are expected to be confirmed during Super Bowl week (Jan. 29-Feb. 4) in South Florida.

The NFL staged its first regular-season game outside of the United States in 2005 when 103,467 people saw the Arizona Cardinals play the San Francisco 49ers in Mexico City on October 2 -- the largest crowd for a regular-season game in NFL history.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/9933984

Jules
16-01-2007, 16:32
I will pass the news on to Mr Jules, thanks for the info :tu:

TheDaddy
16-01-2007, 16:49
I will pass the news on to Mr Jules, thanks for the info :tu:

Hmm, Mr Jules, not this chap by any chance? :Yikes: :D

Jules
16-01-2007, 16:51
Lol nope nothing like him

NoKnowledge
16-01-2007, 16:52
To be hosted at Wembley - what if Wembley isn't completed?

gazzae
16-01-2007, 16:54
To be hosted at Wembley - what if Wembley isn't completed?

Twickenham was the other option but surely they won't be able to cock Wembley up more?

NoKnowledge
16-01-2007, 16:57
I guess you'll be surprised if they do