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The Lions stayed at a five-star golf resort a 45-minute drive northwest of London amid pastures,NFL Jerseys Cheap, lichen-covered church cemeteries and yellowing autumn woods of alder, oak and maple.
By design, coaches wanted players focused on preparing for Sunday's Wembley Stadium game with the Chiefs,Wholesale Cheap Jerseys, so the resort's Camp David-style location proved ideal. There's not even an entrance sign,Wholesale Jerseys, just a security barrier, so it's easy to miss, and no autograph hunters were likely to find it.
But groups of players still made it to the bright lights of London via taxis that cost anywhere from $225-$300 per trip,Cheap NFL Jerseys.
When asked what the Lions' third-down back bought, he joked, "He picked up a new ego."
Joique Bell, senior statesman among the Lions' running back corps, took teammates to one of the world's biggest department stores, Harrod's.
Tight end Eric Ebron hit London's West End looking for high fashion, but came away disappointed.
Bell said he footed the $253 taxi bill back to the Grove, the Lions' exclusive hotel with a training field near a crossroads village called Chandler's Cross.
"I realized none of the clothes fit me because everybody in the U.K. is 4-7 and less," said Ebron, who is 6-foot-4 and prone to exaggeration; demographic data suggest the average British male is 5-9.
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