The NFL is still locked out but Associated Press writer Luke Meredith has found a legitimate football game.
And it was an historic day.
The Drake Bulldogs played a Mexican all-star team Saturday – it was the first college football game in Africa.
Per the AP:
The Bulldogs beat the CONADEIP All-Stars, a collection of top college players from Mexico, 17-7 in the Global Kilimanjaro Bowl in front of an estimated crowd of about 12,000 in Arusha, Tanzania.
The exhibition is part of a two-week trip organized by Drake that includes include youth clinics, a safari, an orphanage project and a five-day climb to the summit of the 19,340-foot Kilimanjaro.
The trip grew out of a vision by Drake coach Chris Creighton and took more than a year of planning by Global Football. The company has been taking U.S. college football teams around the world for 14 years.
There is no report that any other games are planned to be played in Africa.
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