Hope you like NFL football, England. Hope you like waking up extra-early to watch your favorite team play on another continent, America.
The NFL has announced a new deal with the Rugby Football Union that means London will host at least five NFL games in the 2018 season. That means nearly a third of the league's teams will play a game in England in three years.
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The deal, revealed this week, guarantees the NFL will play "a minimum" of three regular-season games at London's Twickenham Stadium over a three-year span beginning next fall.
Sound familiar? It's just the NFL's latest attempt to make it into London.
The league already has a deal to play two games per season at Wembley Stadium; that agreement was extended through 2020 just last month. Meanwhile, another deal struck this summer will have the NFL playing two games per season for 10 years at Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur's new stadium, which is scheduled to open in 2018.
Add it all up, and in 2018 you have two games at Tottenham's new stadium, two games at Wembley and at least one game at Twickenham. That's at least five games total, which in all likelihood means at least 10 different teams. That translates to 31 percent of the league playing in London three seasons from now.
The NFL has played 14 games in London since beginning this pseudo-tradition in 2007.