LONDON — Brendan Clarke has been waiting for about an hour.
Give or take 30 years.
It’s 6:03 p.m. on Friday, and the bearded man in the Seahawks hat is standing in a line on a sidewalk a few feet from London Bridge. He is with his wife, Michelle Clarke, and neither has a beer, and they’re starting to regret it. But don’t expect them to leave the line. They came here for a reason.
In the mid-1980s, Brendan — who lives in Staffordshire, a bustling county in the middle of England — was introduced to his first American football game on television.