Leave it to the NFL to take something it has done 11 times before, give it a makeover, and turn it into a huge success.
That is what we saw with the first Saturday night American Bowl played in Japan last weekend. All of the previous games (10 in Tokyo, one in Osaka) were played at the undesirable hour of 11:00 a.m on a Sunday morning.
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