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Channel 4 and BBC analyst Mike Carlson makes an emotional return to nfluk.com on Friday May 25 with a new weekly mailbag column in which he answers your questions on the sport of American football.

‘Ask Mike’ will not only be of great interest to long-standing, passionate NFL fans in the UK, it will also help guide new supporters through the league and its 32 teams, helping them further understand the most exciting sport in the world.

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President Theodore Roosevelt was hardly averse to a bit of violence. After all, the first man elected to the White House in the 20th century had been in Cuba in 1898 to fight with his Rough Riders in the Spanish-American war.

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The free agency signing frenzy is long gone and mini-camps are in full swing following the NFL Draft, but all 32 teams will continue to make roster moves right up to – and beyond - the season kickoff on September 5.

And that means that some high-profile veterans still looking for work are likely to be snapped up either when training camps open or when a team suffers an injury at a particular position.

Here are a few famous names still hoping to get signed in time for the 2012 season.

Cedric Benson – Running Back

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The latest NFL UK podcast with Neil Reynolds and Darren Fletcher is now live on iTunes.

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With new fans joining nfluk.com and wishing to learn more about the exciting world of American football, we will continue to build a library of simple explanations of terminology and events through a series of ‘NFL Explained’ articles.

And with NFL teams starting to ramp up their preparations for the 2012 season this week, now would be a good time to take a look at mini-camps. Here we will look at the importance of these spring sessions, the rules put in place regarding off-season workouts and how these get-togethers differ from training camps taking place later this summer.

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Twenty years ago, the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St Paul were basking in the warm afterglow of having hosted a Super Bowl.

Years of watching Miami, Los Angeles, New Orleans and Tampa organising America’s biggest sporting extravaganza had left those in the state of Minnesota wondering if they could really compete on that stage when the time finally came in January 1992 to welcome the NFL to the end-of-season party.

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The latest NFL UK podcast with Neil Reynolds and Darren Fletcher is now live on iTunes.

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As you would expect for a team holding the second overall pick in an NFL Draft, the St. Louis Rams entered the off-season with a great many holes to fill on their roster.

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The latest NFL UK podcast with Neil Reynolds and Darren Fletcher is now live on iTunes.

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The NFL Draft took place in New York City on Thursday evening and saw a plethora of trades being made between teams which made for the most exciting Draft in years. To celebrate this, NFL UK and New Era have launched an unmissable competition to all members of nfluk.com which culminate’s with one lucky winner (and a friend) travelling to New York for ‘Kickoff’.

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