![]() This will be the Jags’ ninth time playing in London, while the Broncos are visiting for the first time in over a decade. ![]() London is hosting its third NFL game of 2022 on Sunday when the Jaguars face the Denver Broncos. See you next year.The Jacksonville Jaguars are heading back to their home away from home. The cycle is complete, the fantasy fulfilled. ![]() He screams at a fan walking by in his colours, his fellow New Yorkers for the day heed his call and volley back. That sowed the seed, then I started playing fantasy football with my mates at work and it sucked me back in: J-E-T-S JETS! JETS! JETS!”Īdam is living his fantasy so fully that he is unable to finish our chat. I don’t remember watching, but I remember being allowed to stay up until the small hours. Our Jets fan shares a familiar tale of where his enthusiasm was born: “As a treat my dad used to let my brother and me watch the Super Bowl with him. The game is on a knife-edge and the crowd are loving every second despite any quality to speak of. What lingers is the sense that Adam’s call was bang on. But as the game remained up for grabs everyone was on the edge of their seat. This was ugly – six punts each, 17 penalties and a complete capitulation from Lawrence. Fickleness aside, the fact that most were still cheering should be seen as a badge of honour. The Jaguars wilted in the second half and with that the wind suddenly picked up, the drizzle flew and, coincidentally, pockets of “Let’s go, Broncos” chants began to bubble up. Competency will take you a long way with a fair weather fanbase. His opposite number Trevor Lawrence then confirmed they had made the right choice with an easy 22-yard touchdown pass to Evan Engram. Wilson was almost intercepted, sacked, then intercepted. For anyone who had not already declared an interest, they had their minds made up swiftly by Wilson’s abysmal play at quarterback for Denver in the opening exchanges. Like Adam, a lot of fans have already picked a side before kick‑off the turquoise ocean of flags waving back and forth suggest as much. I hate the Broncos so it is the Jags for me. If the game is close then there are always people on either side and it will always create a great buzz. Cheers, Larry.Īdam Kingsley, from London by way of the New York Jets, also points to vibrations being key: “The atmosphere is incredible. ![]() All courtesy of a Kansas City Chiefs fan called Larry Abraham who had no use for it. Strolling through the Jaguars Jungle fanzone, an MC is shouting something over the PA system about a free ticket.Ī tentative Jaguars jersey wanders up to learn they have just snagged a hospitality ticket worth £700. It is so friendly, there’s a guy in a Vikings crop top over there.” It’s better live even if it is Jags v Broncos. “You get to come with your mates, have a great day out and watch it live. Photograph: Matthew Childs/Action Images/Reuters I love it and you just have to take what you can get which, unfortunately, means watching the Jags year in and year out.ĭenver Broncos’ Latavius Murray scores his side’s third touchdown. Nick Watson from Exeter shares why he sticks his Pittsburgh Steelers over his head each year: “I’ve been to more games than I can count. Is there a stadium’s worth of Texas millennials dreaming of the day Leeds duke it out with Aston Villa in Dallas? Probably not, but the moribund Jaguars have attracted a record crowd of 86,215 for an NFL game in London. Then if you flip the script it only becomes more strange. It is not either team’s play they have both been brutally disappointing, with the Broncos’ Russell Wilson struggling to a 3-5 record after winning here, while the Jaguars are 2-6. Why would a Green Bay fan, equipped with a £60 cheesehead hat bought from a shop in a vast underground car park, come out for this? They are unmistakable and more than a little confusing. A small piece of the grand psychedelic patchwork, a pig-skin cosplay warrior. One of the shimmering hoard clogging up the tube on their way to the big game. If you live here you will have seen a Marino or two.
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