{"id":234478,"date":"2025-10-18T18:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/234478\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T18:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T18:00:07","slug":"saudi-arabia-wants-to-host-an-nfl-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/234478\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia wants to host an NFL game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, Saudi Arabia won\u2019t be stopping with flag football.<\/p>\n<p>Via David Hellier of Bloomberg.com, Saudi Arabia wants to host an NFL game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBritain got it, Brazil got it,\u201d Price Turki Alalshikh (pictured with Brady) said Thursday, per Hellier. \u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-10-17\/saudi-arabia-eyes-becoming-nfl-s-next-overseas-destination?srnd=homepage-europe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Hopefully, Saudi Arabia will be next<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NFL didn\u2019t respond to a request for comment from Bloomberg. The NFL has otherwise said plenty about its international ambitions. However, Saudi Arabia has yet to make the short list of potential destinations.<\/p>\n<p>As noted by Hellier, the league\u2019s recent program of assigning specific countries to specific teams for marketing purposes does not yet include Saudi Arabia. (It could be a perfect opportunity for the Titans to revert to the Oilers.)<\/p>\n<p>The NFL would be wise to play nice with Saudi Arabia. As we hear it, the powers-that-be believe Saudi Arabia won\u2019t dip a toe into American football given the expenses associated with creating the infrastructure for the game.<\/p>\n<p>That said, Saudi Arabia has more than enough money to launch a true in-season competitor to the NFL \u2014 with the resources to lure the best of the best NFL players to the upstart league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No, Saudi Arabia won\u2019t be stopping with flag football. Via David Hellier of Bloomberg.com, Saudi Arabia wants to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-234478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}