![]() JC: You would still have the NFL - the cream of the crop - but you can have a new pool of talent for players who aren’t quite at the NFL standard yet. In that time, you cover most of Europe too. In the US you fly three to four hours to get to games. Then maybe we can get a team here in London and other parts of England, and another in France, Italy, and Spain. First, there needs to be more of an investment in the coaching side of the sport. We need to start developing the talent and enthusiasm over here, but it's a long journey. This is how (American) football has to expand - we can't have people staying up until 3am every time they want to watch a game. Look at soccer - there are respectable leagues all over the world with a lot of talent. JC: I think bringing the Super Bowl to a neutral site here in England is more realistic, and I think it would be better as far as building the game up goes. RH: Should there be a London franchise, or is that a step too far? Icon: Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady The truth is Americans want to travel for the Super Bowl, and if they want to go out and see their team win on the other side of the country, why not in Europe? The Super Bowl travels and if it were to travel abroad you would get just as big a reaction as you do when it goes around the States - if not bigger. Players don’t see it like, ‘Yes, the Super Bowl is in Miami this year’ or, ‘Oh no, it’s in Minnesota this year’. For the Super Bowl it doesn't matter where it is. JC: I hope they will do an international Super Bowl in the future. RH: So, what is the future of the London games - do you think we could see a Super Bowl in London? I can say I’m a part of his story and so can they. But that also goes for anyone who has caught a touchdown pass from him. When I sacked him, I became part of a special club that can say, ‘I’ve sacked Tom Brady’. We’re lucky he’s playing in our lifetime. I think Brady is the best quarterback to ever live. JC: (chuckling) It's up there but they are both completely different in how much they mean to me. RH: How does that experience compare to sacking Brady? Successful career: Crawford playing for the Tennnessee Titans in 2020, his penultimate season in NFL And I had a definitive moment - it was meant to be. It was at that London game with them that I ended up getting my first real sack that was also the only time that all my family and friends had been able to come and watch a game together. For example, I had just moved from the Oakland Raiders, where things weren't going so well, to the Dallas Cowboys and things were starting to look up. For me, there were a lot of things that came together. Nowadays, I look back on that experience as one of the most special and meaningful in my career. But I had to compartmentalise my feelings and focus on what I had to do. So for me that moment of finally playing here was unique. In America, my identity had been as the English guy who has come from England and grew up in London. #Cannot invite members on madden nfl 20 professionalIt was weird having my professional life in the NFL be combined with my upbringing and family and have those two completely different experiences coming together. Jack Crawford: The experience has meant different things for me at different parts of my career. What was it like returning to London to play in an NFL game at Wembley? Rory Hughes: Jack, you played in a London game yourself in 2014 vs the Jacksonville Jaguars. #Cannot invite members on madden nfl 20 tvOn the big screen: the 20ft TV set up on the pitch ![]()
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