This is the week I have been looking forward to for quite a while. However, it appears my wait has been wasted.
The NFL Draft takes place on Thursday night and I was under the impression that ESPN were airing it live from 1am. The NFL UK website announced that this event would be on TV on February 13th. That's ten weeks ago for those who aren't counting.
After the draft failed to show up on the channel listings, I did some searching around the NFL UK forums and found the thread where the announcement was made. In this thread was a further announcement made just a few days ago - and by the same person from February - telling everyone that ESPN will not be airing it.
I could watch it on the NFL Network online subscription that I have. It's just that I wanted to record the latter stages as I have to be up early on Friday morning.
I'd call that another step backwards for American football in the UK.
It's also another amateur job by those running the UK arm of the NFL.
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