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soccer highlights show in UNIV OF THE PACI.The national football league has already conquered america, with almost every game a sellout, waiting lists of up to 25 years for season tickets and polls consistently showing its huge appeal.
Britain is its next target, with the miami dolphins facing the new york giants at wembley stadium on sunday in the first ever regular season game outside the americas.
The nfl first gained popularity in britain in the 1980s when broadcaster channel 4 began showing games.
The super bowl was screened live for the first time in january 1983, featuring the dolphins and the washington redskins, and a series of preseason games were played at wembley in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
English football launched its hugely successful premier league in 1992 while more recently cricket has found a new format, twenty20, which has helped the game reach a wider audience.
The nfl in the last three or four years has, however, begun to gain wider coverage and there will be 130 live games on television in britain this year, more than the premier league, kirkwood said.
The bbc is showing highlights of the wembley game and live coverage of the super bowl.
Kirkwood said one of the keys for the sport to be successful in the country was to develop local talent.
The league will soon sign off on a fiveyear plan to develop british players.
Two britishborn players will be in the giants team at wembley, kicker lawrence tynes from greenock in scotland and londoner osi umenyiora who is a defensive end.
The wembley game was quickly sold out with 87 percent of the fans coming from britain and the balance evenly split between mainland europe and the united states.
The struggling dolphins, who have lost all seven of their games this season, will be without running back ronnie brown and safety renaldo hill.
They suffered torn cruciate ligaments during the 4928 loss to the new england patriots on sunday and are out for the season.