Ram-Bronco Exhibition Game in London Wins Approval

By CHRIS DUFRESNE

April 21, 1987 12 AM PT

The National Football League officially announced Monday that the Rams and Denver Broncos would play an exhibition game on Aug. 9 in London’s Wembley Stadium.

Details of the game and the teams involved were first disclosed last month at a meeting of NFL owners in Hawaii, pending final approval from the National Football League Players Assn.

An agreement between the league and the NFLPA was reached over the weekend.

The game, titled “American Bowl ‘87” will be televised live at 10 a.m. (PDT) on NBC. Last year, in American Bowl ‘86, the Chicago Bears defeated the Dallas Cowboys, 17-6, before a crowd of 82,699 at Wembley Stadium.

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Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).

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