Getty The Denver Broncos and New York Jets meet in London on Sunday.
First-year New York Jets coach Aaron Glenn heads into the NFL's 41st London regular season game, and second of three this season, as the holder of a dubious record. With last week's loss to the Dallas Cowboys, Glenn became the first head coach in the 65-year history of the franchise to start by losing his first five games.
Glenn is the 21st coach to lead the team for at least one game since the Jets -- then known as the New York Titans -- started life as an original American Football League franchise in 1960.
When the Jets face the Denver Broncos on Sunday at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, Glenn wil be part of another rarity. The coach against whom he'll be squaring off, Denver's Sean Payton, was once his coach, when Glenn played for the New Orleans Saints.
That was 2008, the last of Glenn's 15 seasons as an NFL defensive back, and his only season in New Orleans. Payton was the coach of the Saints, and together they traveled to London to play what was then only the second NFL regular season game ever played overseas. For the record, the Saints faced the then-San Diego Chargers and won 37-32.
Since then the league has played another 56 international regular season games, with four more to come this season alone -- including Sunday's showdown between Payton's Broncos and Glenn's Jets.
Unlike the staggering Jets, the Broncos fly to London on a high, winning their last two games in a row -- including last Sunday's stunning upset of the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles -- the Eagles' first loss of the season.
In fact, after the Eagles suffered another shocker in a Thursday Night Football matchup with the New York Giants -- getting doubled up by the lowly Giants, 34-17 -- the Broncos at 3-2 now have an identical record to the NFL champions.
The NFL's latest regular season game played in the league's home-away-from-home that is London is set for kickoff at 2:30 p.m. British Summer Time in the United Kingdom. As with most of the NFL's international games, that means fans who want to watch the game stateside will likely need to set their alarm clocks, or the alarms on their phones. Whatever works.
Kickoff for the Broncos vs. Jets game is set to be 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, October 12, for fans in the United States Eastern Time Zone, or 6:30 a.m. for fans in the Pacific Time Zone.
The game will be carried live on cable television by the NFL Network, with play-by-play provided by veteran sports broadcaster Rich Eisen -- a six-time Emmy nominee who was the first on-air talent signed up by the NFL Network at its founding way back in 2003.
Hall of Fame quarterback and two-time NFL MVP Curt Warner will join Eisen in the London booth to offer in-game analysis of the Broncos-Jets Week Six showdown.
Fans in in the local Denver and New York markets who, for some reason, lack a way to watch the NFL Network have no reason to miss the game. They will be able to view the broadcast on over-the-air TV stations KMGH (ABC 7) in Denver, and WNBC (NBC 4) in New York, New York.
To check out the game online via live stream, viewers need a paid subscription to the NFL's own streaming platform, NFL+.
Other "over-the-top" streaming services, which require more expensive paid subscriptions, such as DirecTV, Hulu Plus Live TV, and Fubo also carry the NFL Network, making the game available by live stream through those platforms as well.