NFL Commissioner says overseas franchises are inevitable
Commissioner Roger Goodell told a German broadcaster that he expects NFL teams to be based outside the United States in the future, and that such markets could eventually host a Super Bowl.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told former player Markus Kuhn in an interview with German broadcaster RTL/ntv that the league expects to have teams located outside the United States eventually. > "At some point, there will be NFL teams outside the USA. I have no doubt that this will happen one day," Goodell said. He added that a foreign-based team could eventually host a Super Bowl, noting that several international cities are capable of doing so, but that the league would prefer to see a team established there first. This season the NFL will schedule a record nine regular-season games abroad, including three in England and one each in Australia, Brazil, France, Spain, Germany and Mexico. Goodell said that while this is still far from a team playing the majority of its home games overseas, he believes such a scenario will arrive in time.