US audience to get 2014 Falcons
The NFL's 2014 International Series will have plenty of new twists.
The most notable is an experiment with the kickoff time for one of the three games, the most the league has ever staged in the United Kingdom in one season.
The Detroit Lions and Atlanta Falcons will face each other Oct. 26, 2014, at London's Wembley Stadium with a 1:30 local kickoff. That means the American television audience will get a 9:30 a.m. ET kickoff on FOX, so U.S. viewers could potentially have wall-to-wall football for approximately 14 hours that day through the to-be-determined Sunday Night Football contest.
'We are excited about playing three regular-season games in the UK for the first time and debuting a new game time that we expect to be a hit with fans on both sides of the Atlantic and around the world,' said NFL chief marketing officer Mark Waller in a statement.
The NFL has typically kicked off its London games at 6 p.m. locally (1 p.m. ET). That plan will apply to the Miami Dolphins-Oakland Raiders game on Sept. 28 and Dallas Cowboys-Jacksonville Jaguars contest on Nov. 9.
The reason for the four-hour time difference in the Lions-Falcons game is due to the U.K.'s schedule for setting its clocks back, which differs from the United States.
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