LONDON — You know that feeling you get when a soccer pitch or a football gridiron stretches across the outfield at Yankee Stadium? It’s a sort of athletic anachronism, and it takes some getting used to.
That’s how Londoners likely will feel while watching the Giants and Rams play on Sunday in the first NFL game at Twickenham Stadium, the physical and spiritual home of English rugby and the national team. Only worse. Their sacred ground will be graffitied with stripes and hash marks, their green pasture emblazoned with a painted NFL shield, and their clean white goalposts replaced with the garish day-glow yellow ones of American football.