I've Been Everywhere Looking For American Football

Alright, Sunday night, kicking back, everybody looking at the quarterback!

Well almost, we're within a gnat's crotchet of the start of the NFL season and that means scouring NFL UK to see how much free to air American Football there'll be on in the UK.

It looks like it's slightly up on last year with the BBC having highlights from Week 1 rather than from halfway through the flipping season like last time. It'll be in the post Match of the Day slot on Saturday night. Hopefully it'll be a repeat of a programme shown earlier in the week, otherwise they'll be waiting a full 6 days to show highlights from the previous Sunday's action. Which would be shit.

As far as I can tell there's also live coverage of the London games, aka the International Series, which includes a game at Twickenham for the first time, as well as the Super Bowl.

Sadly the podcast Americarnage, my main source of NFL info, is on hiatus (just as I bought a t-shirt) but there is a kind of family friendly incarnation of it on Talksport 2, imaginatively called The NFL Show. Nat Coombs presents and Iron Mike Carlson pops up as a contributor, and his intro music is Johnny Cash's version of I've Been Everywhere...

Marek Larwood has turned up on The NFL Show but there's been no sign of Hollywood Dan Louw or Producer Harry as of yet...

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