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Jaguars vs. Bills 2015 Game in London to Have Early-Morning Start Time

January 10, 2015   ·     ·   Jump to comments

Fans in Jacksonville and Buffalo better make sure the coffee's on when the Jaguars and Bills face off in London come October.
The Jags announced on Saturday that the game, scheduled for Oct. 25, will kick off at 9:30 a.m. ET (1:30 p.m. GMT):
Jacksonville has experience playing in London, meeting the San Francisco 49ers and Dallas Cowboys inside Wembley Stadium in each of the last two seasons. Both of those games started at 1 p.m. ET, though.
This won't be the first time the NFL added an early-morning game to the schedule. The Detroit Lions and Atlanta Falcons played at 1:30 p.m. GMT in London this past October.
The MMQB's Peter King wrote at the time that the early kickoff was a part of a larger venture by the league to gauge interest in morning games:
Not only is the NFL watching closely, but FOX and CBS are keeping their eyes on the game. Sunday morning is a potential fourth window that day, and you can be sure that if viewers flock to this game, at least one...

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