London NFL franchise on track for 2022 touchdown

The National Football League is "exactly on track" with its plans to field a team in London and could have a franchise there by 2022, the league’s international chief said yesterday.

Mark Waller said he believed in 2007 when the NFL first started playing in the British capital it would take 15 years to place a team there and, so far, he’s encountered no stumbling blocks.

“We’re at the midway point of that 15-year journey,” Waller said in London, where the Detroit Lions and Atlanta Falcons will play Sunday at Wembley. “I think we’re exactly on track.”