ENFIELD, U.K. — As Sean Payton and the Broncos made their way on charter buses from Ware south to Tottenham Football Club’s training facility Wednesday for practice, the veteran head coach had a question for the bus driver.

“How far is it to Leicester?”

The practical answer: about 170 kilometers north of Denver’s practice home away from home this week in England. A couple of hours by car, depending on traffic.

The metaphorical: Leicester is situated a football lifetime ago for Payton, though he still holds the few months he spent there in 1988 as a player/coach for the British American Football Association’s Leicester Panthers in high regard, 37 years later.

“That was a long time ago,” Payton said Wednesday. … “I was 23 years old, right out of college and basically playing for pizza be

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