Croker won’t be staging NFL game

CROKE PARK will not be seeing any American Football action this year after the NFL confirmed they have ruled out staging a second regular season game in Europe in 2012.

Sat, 21 Jan, 2012 - 00:00
John Fogarty

An NFL spokeperson told thescore.ie website that the New England Patriots-St Louis Rams game on October 28 in Wembley Stadium will be the only international game.

NFL officials visited Croke Park before Christmas with the possibility of staging a regular season NFL game in GAA HQ either later this year or in 2013.

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