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Third year wide receiver Toby Rose tells us how being invited to observe the Jacksonville Jaguars training impacted his team... What do you say when you meet your heroes? One guy who knows is NTU (Nottingham Trent University) Renegades receiver Toby Rose. The university side won an NFL UK competition last autumn that saw them travel to London to spend a day with

James Threadgold tells us about being the change he wanted to see in Hertfordshire's American football scene... With American football growing rapidly across the UK, new teams are springing up all over the place. One of those emerging groups hoping to enter the fray soon is the Welwyn Hatfield Mosquitos. You could be forgiven for not being able to point to

With the NFL International Series returning to London and talk of a permanent franchise reaching fever pitch, we ask what this would mean for the BAFA leagues... It’s October, which for British NFL fans means one thing: the International Series is back. All week the newspapers have been full of discussion, anticipation, and photos of fully kitted New York Jets players riding the

In September 2013, I was meandering around my university’s fresher’s fair eating free pizza when I heard a sentence that would go on to change my life. “Hey mate, you’re quite tall, you look like a wide receiver. Have you thought about playing American football?” “No, I haven’t,” I replied, and started to walk away. But then I did think about it. I’d been looking for

We catch up with the head coach of Britain's longest-competing American football team after their first season in the Southern Conference... It’s been a difficult decade for BAFA’s longest-running team. During the sport’s boom time in the 1980’s and 90’s, they were one of the biggest institutions in the country, often gating around 7000 spectators for home games, but as

After making the play-offs in their debut season, Wembley's Head Coach tells us about the influence the NFL International Series had on his team's progress... The NFL is gearing up for it's 9th season at Wembley, so it’s somewhat surprising that it’s taken so long for domestic American football to take hold in that part of London. Still, a couple of years back, a man’s

The NFC2 side's coach Ian Derbyshire tells us about playing in a stadium and making a local impact... In an amateur sport, we don’t play for crowds. However, exposure is everything, and a vocal support base can be a huge booster. Nobody knows that better than the Halton Spartans, of North West England. Half an hour outside of Liverpool, Widnes – connected to

London Blitz chairman Ed Morgan speaks on the heartbreak of their 20-19 loss to London Warriors in the 2015 Britbowl... London’s domination of the Britbowl has become so complete in the last few years that the fixture was moved from Leeds to North London’s Allianz Park, but the short trip home won’t have softened the blow of defeat for the once indomitable London