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THE INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE WEEK 4: WATCHING THE NFL IN JAPAN

By Christopher Shultz

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

In Japan, NFL games start at 1:00 AM, as Sunday becomes Monday. The night games fall around lunchtime on Monday and Tuesday. If you're a U.S. Marine in Okinawa like Corporal James Balthis, manager of Team Japan, deep-night Sundays are thrilling. Balthis, 23, and his friends either sleep for a couple of hours and wake up to watch the NFL, or pull all-nighters and watch football on the Armed Forces Network until they go to work at 7 a.m. During lunch on Monday and Tuesday, people watch at the ...

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