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The NFL has for years attempted to bolster its international audience, playing international games every year in London since 2007 and every year in Mexico City in 2016.The league has even announced an "international series" of games in 2022
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Karl Kauffmann Jersey Football for all.' There is a place in flag football for all."Of course, introducing the concept of flag football on an international stage could potentially create an appetite or increase it for the NFL product. The International Federation of American Football in 2015 unsucce sfully applied for American football to be an Olympic sport in the 2020 Olympics (held in the 2021
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