(Reuters) - Picture the scene: it is 2025 and the National Football League's London Monarchs are battling against the Green Bay Packers in Texas for honor and glory in the Super Bowl.
Or look a little further ahead and perhaps it is 2029 and the Berlin Barons are taking on the Dallas Cowboys in Arizona for supremacy in the NFL's annual championship game.
These scenarios are, of course, fiction for the moment but either could become reality as the NFL's strategy to expand the sport globally continues to gather pace.
For the past decade the NFL has held regular season games in Britain, a policy which is now being pursued in Mexico, and the success of the London experiment has that city looming as the likeliest candidate for the league's first team on foreign soil.