Claus Elming is a former Danish

Denmark

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 American football

American football

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 player and current TV host and commentator on TV 2 Sport

TV 2 Sport (Denmark)

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Elming first experienced American football when he went to Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

 as an exchange student. Quickly becoming a fan of the sport, Claus sent his little brother, Jesper Elming, an National Football League

National Football League

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 ball for Christmas.

Upon returning to Denmark

Denmark

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 after a year in the U.S.

United States

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, Claus started the Herning Hawks American football club with some other interested players. Some years later, Claus moved to Århus to study at the university, where he helped starting the Århus Tigers

Århus Tigers

The Århus Tigers AFC is an amateur American Football Club located in Århus, Denmark, a university city with 300,000 residents located in the western part of the country....

. Claus later moved to Copenhagen

Copenhagen

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 after he took a job as an NFL commentator on TV 2 Zulu

TV 2 Zulu

TV 2 Zulu is a Danish television station which started broadcasting on 15 October 2000. It is primarily aimed at viewers between 15 and 30 years of age....

. Elming then started coaching the Avedøre Monarchs, which he did until 2002.
In 2006, Elming was inducted in the Danish American Football Federation Hall of Fame

Hall of Fame

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Until the 2006 NFL season

2006 NFL season

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, Elming was a color commentator

Color commentator

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 for TV 2 Zulu

TV 2 Zulu

TV 2 Zulu is a Danish television station which started broadcasting on 15 October 2000. It is primarily aimed at viewers between 15 and 30 years of age....

 in Denmark

Denmark

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, providing NFL-coverage alongside Jimmy Bøjgaard, who provided play-by-play-commentary. The Zulu-coverage of NFL ended thereafter, when Viasat

Viasat

Viasat is a DBS distributor and TV broadcaster, owned by the Swedish media conglomerate Modern Times Group. Broadcasting from London, the target markets are in the Nordic and the Baltic Countries...

 acquired the Scandinavian NFL-rights. However, Elming will continue as commentator at TV 2 Sport, who air a portion of the NFL matches in Denmark.

Elming's favorite team is the Minnesota Vikings

Minnesota Vikings

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External links

• Claus Elming blog at TV 2
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• Claus Elming page at MySpace
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• The Official Claus Elming Fan Club