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Colts trade former top pick to the jets for lateround. League bosses in the us have hinted there could be as many as four games per season played in britain by 2012. Over the intervening years it has become a welltold story. Britain was still free on october 31, when the battle of britain ended. The team plays its home games at metlife stadium in east rutherford, new jersey, which it shares with the new york jets. Imho the best book by far i have ever read on the bob, and i have pretty much read them all, is battle over britain, by francis k mason. Twenty famous fighter aerodromes have been explored and theres a listing of the few in its entirety.
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