American Football Heads to China With Professional Indoor League
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American football is coming to China next year with its first professional league.
Marty Judge, part owner of the Arena Football League’s Philadelphia Soul and founder of the Judge Group Inc., a $350 million information technology staffing, training and consulting company based outside Philadelphia, partnered with former National Football League quarterback Ron Jaworski and Super Bowl-winning coach Dick Vermeil to bring American football to the world’s most populous country, trying to build a fan base in a nation of 1.4 billion people.