{"id":859749,"date":"2026-08-18T15:20:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T15:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/859749\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T15:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T15:20:30","slug":"goodell-no-doubt-nfl-will-have-team-outside-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/859749\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodell: &#8216;No doubt&#8217; NFL will have team outside U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is confident that the league will eventually have a team permanently outside the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At some point, there will be NFL teams outside the USA,&#8221; Goodell said in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.n-tv.de\/sport\/der_sport_tag\/NFL-Teams-ausserhalb-der-USA-Ligachef-hat-keine-Zweifel-id31204946.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RTL\/ntv&#8217;s Markus Kuhn<\/a>. &#8220;I have no doubt that this will happen one day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The league has proactively expanded its international footprint during Goodell&#8217;s tenure as commissioner. Nine international games are scheduled for the 2026 season. Melbourne, London, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro are among the sites that will host a regular-season matchup. <\/p>\n<p>The NFL passed a vote to increase its international game slate to 10 games in 2027. The league also passed a measure that would strip teams of the ability to protect any home games from international play.<\/p>\n<p>The growth of the league&#8217;s international endeavors has raised questions about the potential for a Super Bowl to be played outside the United States. While league officials have said the idea isn&#8217;t their top priority, Goodell left the door open to the possibility. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are definitely international cities that could host something like that, but we would like to see an NFL team in such a city first,&#8221; Goodell said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is confident that the league will eventually have a team permanently outside the United&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-859749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}