![]() ![]() “Super appreciative of the fans that came out.” “The ‘Bills mafia’ was very present and made themselves heard today,” Bills head coach Sean McDermott would tell reporters after the match. It is a superb, familial atmosphere, a fine advert for the sport on the world stage. The red and blue of the Bills is the predominant color of the day, while there is a sprinkling of Jaguar turquoise to be seen and “union Jags” flags being sold in a clever piece of marketing.Ī crowd of 61,273 fill the stadium, a new record for an NFL game at Tottenham it is announced over the public address system. He has spent, he estimates, around £1,000 ($1,224), but as he joyfully talks about the NFL there’s a sense the cost matters little.įireworks light up the sky before the start of the second international NFL game of the 2023 season. “It’s another feeling to be live in the stadium,” he tells CNN Sport in anticipation of his third London-based NFL game. Swaying side-to-side to the beat of the train is Eric Schuhmann of Saxony, Germany, an NFL fan spending the weekend in London to watch the sport he loves, rather than the team he follows. It’s a whistle-stop weekend for her and many. She’ll be back at work on Monday, she says. A father has brought his two children from the US to London for a 10-day break, while a teacher tells a fellow Bills fan she needed special permission to skip Friday classes to travel to England. It is to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium that Bills fans are heading en masse, the home of the aforementioned English Premier League side, where the Bills will ‘host’ the Jacksonville Jaguars in the NFL’s second international weekend of the 2023 season.Īny fears of the Bills lacking the support that they would enjoy at Highmark Stadium quickly dissipates at the sight of a standing-room carriage awash in red, white and blue on the way to White Hart Lane, the nearest station stop to the Bills’ adopted home.įans who have never met before chat, finding out where the stranger standing nearest to them is from and asking for details on their arrival dates in the UK. NFL Week 5: How to watch and everything you need to know Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence (16) passes the ball during the fourth quarter of an NFL football game against Atlanta Falcons at Wembley stadium in London, Sunday, Oct.
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