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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 12/13/16

2017 GAMES:

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The NFL today announced the four games that will take place in London next season, the first time the league will play four games – half of a home schedule of regular-season games – in the UK .

The 2017 London games:

Week Date Visiting Team Home Team Site 3 or 4 9/24/17 or 10/1/17 Jacksonville Jaguars 3 or 4 9/24/17 or 10/1/17 New Orleans Saints Miami Dolphins 7 or 8 10/22/17 or 10/29/17 Minnesota Vikings Cleveland Browns 7 or 8 10/22/17 or 10/29/17 Arizona Cardinals Los Angeles Rams Twickenham Stadium

The London schedule will feature consecutive games in Weeks 3 and 4 at Wembley Stadium – the home of English soccer – and Weeks 7 and 8 at Twickenham Stadium, the home of English rugby. The game times and dates will be finalized in conjunction with the revealing of the full 2017 NFL schedule next spring.

Three teams will play their first regular-season games in London in 2017 – the Arizona Cardinals, the visiting team against their NFC West rivals, the Los Angeles Rams at Twickenham in Week 7 or 8; the Baltimore Ravens, the visiting team against the Jacksonville Jaguars at Wembley in Week 3 or 4; and the Cleveland Browns, the home team against the Minnesota Vikings in Week 7 or 8 at Twickenham.

The Miami Dolphins will play their fourth regular-season game in London, this time against the New Orleans Saints, who make their second appearance in a regular-season game in the UK. The Jaguars will play a home game in London for the fifth consecutive season.

At the conclusion of the 2017 season, 26 teams will have played in London since the inception of the London Games Series in 2007. Since that time, the NFL has achieved accelerated growth in the UK. Sunday viewership of NFL games has more than doubled and the audience has increased more than 75 percent. This season, the NFL is on pace to reach a record number of unique TV viewers in the UK. The league also has developed new and stronger business partnerships and, according to internal research, has a UK fan base of more than 13 million, including close to four million avid fans.

Participation in amateur football in the UK has risen by approximately 15 percent per year since 2007, with the latest figures from Sport showing that 40,000 people age 14 or older play regularly. is now an officially recognized sport in UK universities and schools.

A look at the 17 previous regular-season games played in London:

Game Date Stadium Visiting Team Score Home Team Score Attendance 1 10/28/07 Wembley 13 Miami Dolphins 10 81,176 2 10/26/08 Wembley San Diego Chargers 32 New Orleans Saints 37 83,226 3 10/25/09 Wembley 35 7 84,254 4 10/31/10 Wembley 16 24 83,941 5 10/23/11 Wembley 24 Tampa Bay Buccaneers 18 76,981 6 10/28/12 Wembley New England Patriots 45 St. Louis Rams 7 84,004 7 9/29/13 Wembley 27 Minnesota Vikings 34 83,518 8 10/27/13 Wembley San Francisco 49ers 42 Jacksonville Jaguars 10 83,559 9 9/28/14 Wembley Miami Dolphins 38 Oakland Raiders 14 83,436 10 10/26/14 Wembley 22 21 83,532 11 11/9/14 Wembley 31 Jacksonville Jaguars 17 83,603 12 10/4/15 Wembley 27 Miami Dolphins 14 83,986 13 10/25/15 Wembley 31 Jacksonville Jaguars 34 84,021 14 11/1/15 Wembley Detroit Lions 10 45 83,624 15 10/2/16 Wembley 27 Jacksonville Jaguars 30 83,764 16 10/23/16 Twickenham New York Giants 17 Los Angeles Rams 10 74,121 17 10/30/16 Wembley Washington Redskins 27 27 84,488

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