Nfl 2017 London Schedule
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The NFL has released it’s 2017 schedule of games to be played in London, England. It’s the first time the league will play four games in London.
Three teams will play their first regular-season games in London in 2017 — the Arizona Cardinals, the visiting team against their NFC West rivals, the Los Angeles Rams at Twickenham in Week 7 or 8. The Minnesota Vikings (5-2) meet the winless Cleveland Browns (0-7) in NFL Week 8 action on Sunday, October 29, 2017 (10/29/17) at Twickenham Stadium in London, England. On Tuesday the NFL officially announced which teams would be traveling to London, England, to play in the annual International Series next season. Who will be there? Jacksonville Jaguars; Baltimore Ravens; Miami Dolphins; New Orleans Saints; Cleveland Browns.
READ MORE:- The NFL International Series is a series of American football games during the National Football League regular season that are played outside the United States. Since 2017, the series has two sub-series: the NFL London Games in London, which has been in place since 2007, and the NFL Mexico Game in Mexico City, which began in 2016 with a predecessor game in 2005. Initially, all games in the International Series were held in London.
- The NFL London Schedule 2018 has been announced by the league and it features three games, two at Wembley Stadium and one at Tottenham Stadium. The Oakland Raiders, who have played in London.
Repeat Bowie County Sex Offender William Johnson Springer Sentenced For Possessing Child PornographyAccording to the NFL, the London schedule will feature consecutive games in Weeks 3 and 4 at Wembley Stadium, the home of English soccer, and Weeks 7 and 8 at Twickenham Stadium, the home of English rugby.
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Baltimore Ravens vs. Jacksonville Jaguars; Wembley Stadium
New Orleans Saints vs. Miami Dolphins; Wembley Stadium
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Arizona Cardinals vs. Los Angeles Rams; Twickenham Stadium
Arizona, Baltimore and Cleveland will play regular-season games for the first time in London. It will be the fourth match there for the Dolphins, second for the Saints and the fifth for the Jaguars, who have played annually in London since 2013.
The game times and dates will be finalized in conjunction with the revealing of the full 2017 NFL schedule next spring.
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On Tuesday the NFL officially announced which teams would be traveling to London, England, to play in the annual International Series next season.
Who will be there?
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- Jacksonville Jaguars
- Baltimore Ravens
- Miami Dolphins
- New Orleans Saints
- Cleveland Browns
- Minnesota Vikings
- Los Angeles Rams
- Arizona Cardinals
Four games in all will take place in the English capital, with the Jacksonville Jaguars taking on the Baltimore Ravens in the first matchup in either Week 3 or Week 4. This will be Jacksonville’s fifth consecutive season that includes a trip to London, while the Ravens will be playing in London for the first time ever.
The Jags notched one of their two wins this season in London when they were able to hold off the Indianapolis Colts by a score of 30-27. The game next season will take place at Wembley Stadium.
Another game will feature the Miami Dolphins and New Orleans Saints, and that will be played in either Week 3 or Week 4, as well. This will be the Dolphins’ fourth ever trip to London, while the Saints will be making their second appearance across the pond. That game will also go down at Wembley.
Twickenham, which is a rugby stadium, will host the other two matchups in Weeks 7 and 8, respectively. One game will pit the Cleveland Browns against the Minnesota Vikings, while the other will feature an NFC West showdown between the Los Angeles Rams and Arizona Cardinals.
Arizona and Cleveland will also be London debutantes.
Twickenham hosted an NFL game for the first time earlier this season when the Rams lost to the New York Giants, 17-10, back in late October.
Which teams will lose a real home game?
The Jaguars, Rams, Dolphins and Browns will be the “home” teams for these games, which means they will each forfeit a home game in their actual base cities.
As touched on above, the Jaguars have long held an agreement with the NFL to “host” a game in London every season. Jacksonville ranks 26th out of the 32 teams this season so far in average attendance, drawing a little over 62,000 fans per game.
The Browns have been a garbage franchise for a number of years, so their logic must just be that it can’t possibly hurt to try and expand the fanbase. Cleveland, who appears headed for a winless 0-16 campaign, is 23rd in average attendance thus far in 2016.
The Dolphins agreed to “host” one game over in Europe when the NFL decided to award the 2020 Super Bowl to South Florida. Miami is 21st in attendance this season.
The Rams will be playing in London for the second straight year, as they agreed to do so until their new stadium in Los Angeles is completed. Construction on the new facility in Inglewood recently got underway, and it is projected to open in August of 2019.
In the meantime, the Rams have been playing at the Coliseum. Attendance has been fairly strong on the whole in their first season back in Southern California in over 20 years, though the numbers have declined of late as the team’s performance has suffered.
The Rams rank seventh in attendance at over 74,000 fans per game. Considering the Coliseum holds better than 93,000, though, that figure does not look overly impressive.
NFL history in London
The NFL has been holding at least one game in London per year since 2007, when the Giants toppled the Dolphins, 13-10. 15 of the 17 games played there thus far have drawn at least 80,000 fans to Wembley Stadium.
The four games to be held in 2017 will be the most in a single season for the NFL.
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