Timeline of American Football on UK television

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This is a timeline of UK television coverage of American Football on UK television. The timeline begins when the sport first got regular coverage as prior to 1982, coverage was ad-hoc and was only seen very rarely in the UK.

Contents

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

See also

References

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