By Jenny Vrentas

The Velodromo Vigorelli is a place of legend in this city. For decades, it was an important speed cycling track, home to the record for the longest distance cycled in one hour. The Beatles played their first show in Italy here in 1965, and a few years later a Led Zeppelin concert at this site infamously devolved into a tear gas-cloaked riot.

On the third Sunday in June it's home to a different kind of drama. It's far less attended, but every bit as passionate. This is the essence of American football in Italy. The Milano Rhinos, one of the original American football teams in Italy, have fallen one minute and 34 seconds short of the Italian Super Bowl.

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