Mexico seeks to extend deal with NFL to host games

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“We need to keep K.J. Wright Jersey working hard to be as successful as last year in order to have a chance to continue with this project and that the game is here to stay,” Arturo Olive, the NFL Mexico office director, said, via The Canadian Press. A league study Kevin Pierre-Louis Jersey estimated that the 2016 game generated $45 million for Mexico City’s economy as it drew 76,473, including 9,500 international tourists. An estimated crowd of 205,000 attended the NFL Fan Fest during the weekend. “We are giving Marshawn Lynch Jersey everything, Olive said. “We set the bar high for last year’s game, and we were successful, but we’re trying to do even better this year.” During the 2016 game, then-Texans Mike Morgan Jersey quarterback Brock Osweiler complained of a laser light interfering with his vision, and paper planes sailed onto the field. Some fans also participated in a homophobic chant during kickoff. Olive said Mexico would love to Paul Richardson Jersey go beyond annually hosting a game to having a team hold training camp there. The summer heat is an obvious problem, though. “We have not been Rees Odhiambo Kids Jersey able yet to find a way to make it comfortable for them to leave the places where they usually do it,” he said. “In the meantime we are happy that the league trusted us with three games and we hope to keep this going for the years to come.” Share this: