National Football League International Preseason American Bowl in Canada 1988-Present
Enda Mulcahy
NFL logo [Reference: 3]
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
National Football League Preseason American Bowls in Canada 1988-Present [Reference: 1-2]
Note: *Not designated an American Bowl.
Report
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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