'We want authentic': how NBC's British commentators won the US audience

For the British natives enlisted for NBC’s Premier League play-by-play duties, tailoring a style to fit an American audience has come quite naturally

More than 30 years have passed since Arlo White, then a teenager, traveled from England to Chicago to visit his aunt and uncle and was treated to his first head-to-head, or hand-to-hand, encounter with American football. Even though it was just a Bears’ preseason game, White had a thrill.

“Got a high-five from Walter Payton,” he told the Guardian recently. “Didn’t wash my hand for a week.”

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