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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Sport
Paul Prenderville

NFL owner says there will be international division as London given hope of franchise

Ever since the NFL began taking games outside the United States, talk has gathered pace about a franchise being based overseas, but one NFL owner has now sensationally claimed an entire international division could be on the cards.

It's a sign of the league's growing appeal that this year five of the 17 weeks during the regular season will have an international game, so it wouldn't appear to represent a huge leap to think the next step would be a franchise based overseas.

Those suggestions have been quietened in recent years, but in a report published by Front Office Sports, one franchise owner went a step further by suggesting not just a club but a division could be based overseas.

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