Ten years after the NFL first came to London the league remains hopeful of putting a team in the city. Perhaps as soon as in four years. “I said this was a 15-year project when we started in 2007, that was the sort of timeframe that seemed to work,” Mark Waller, the NFL’s executive vice-president of international and events, said. “The next four or five years should be very doable.”
A lot has to happen for the league to place a full-time franchise in the UK. Most importantly, the owner must want to move his team to London and the other owners would need to agree that such a move is a good idea. But there is a definite sense the NFL is pushing harder on its experiment to test whether American football can work in London.
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