American Bowls in Canada 1988-Present
Date | Venue | Winners | Runners-Up | ||
18.08.1988* | Montreal | New York Jets | 11 | Cleveland Browns | 7 |
09.08.1990 | Montreal | Pittsburgh Steelers | 30 | New England Patriots | 14 |
14.08.1993* | Toronto | Cleveland Browns | 12 | New England Patriots | 9 |
12.08.1995 | Toronto | Buffalo Bills | 9 | Dallas Cowboys | 7 |
16.08.1997 | Toronto | Green Bay Packers | 35 | Buffalo Bills | 3 |
15.08.1998 | Vancouver | San Francisco 49ers | 24 | Seattle Seahawks | 21 |
14.08.2008* | Toronto | Buffalo Bills | 24 | Pittsburgh Steelers | 21 |
19.08.2010* | Toronto | Buffalo Bills | 34 | Indianapolis Colts | 31 |
22.08.2019* | Winnipeg | Oakland Raiders | 22 | Green Bay Packers | 21 |
Note: *Not designated an American Bowl.
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As part of its planned television expansion overseas, the National Football League (USA) played a series of International Preseason Games in Canada approximately once every two years from 1988 to 1998. Called the American Bowl (there were other American Bowl games in Europe, Mexico, Japan and Australia) the series usually pitted teams close to Canada against each other, the series returened in 2008 and 2010 and again in 2019, but were not called the American Bowl.
Buffalo Bills have appeared in this preseason series four times (the city is closest to Toronto on the US side of the border), and Green Bay Packers, Cleveland Browns, New England Patriots and Pittsburgh Steelers twice each.
References
Bibliography
[1] National Football League (2014) “2014 National Football League Record & Factbook | International Games” pg. 508. New York, USA
Websites/ Bibliography
[2] National Football League (2020) 2020 NFL Record & Factbook | International Games p. 502 [Internet] Available from: https://static.www.nfl.com/league/apps/league-site/media-guides/2020/2020_NFL_Record_and_Fact_Book [Accessed 9 November 2020]
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Acknowledgements
Thanks to Todd Zboyan & Tim Leadingham.
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