LONDON (AP) — Bartender Ben Finney expects a trickle-down effect when Tottenham’s stadium resumes hosting NFL games, beginning this Sunday.
“They’re definitely rainmakers,” the 23-year-old Finney said Thursday from behind the bar at the Beavertown Corner Pin pub in the shadow of the Premier League club’s $1.6 billion facility. “You can’t really go wrong. It benefits both parties.”
After a one-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the NFL returns to London when the Atlanta Falcons play the New York Jets. A week later, the Jacksonville Jaguars face the Miami Dolphins also at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
While NFL grounds crews were set to begin painting team names and lines on the field, banners were already affixed along light posts on the streets to direct out-of-town fans from the nearby London Underground stations to the stadium.
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