... mid-80s, I fell in love with the game right away. Despite living in England, American Football (as we call it) was more entertaining to watch than soccer.

Back then, there wasn't much coverage. You had to wait seven days to see a one-hour highlight package of the previous week's games, including 20 minutes featuring the "game of the week."

If you wanted live coverage, this meant attempting to tune into Armed Forces Radio . If you were fortunate enough, you could get five minutes of uninterrupted play-by-play action at a time, before it was drowned out by other stations (which always included some woman singing opera). At the time, I enjoyed this, as I didn't know any different.

Throughout it all, there were various po...

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