{"id":767854,"date":"2026-07-17T07:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T07:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/767854\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T07:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T07:40:08","slug":"roger-goodell-has-about-10-more-countries-in-mind-for-games-including-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/767854\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Goodell has &#8220;about 10&#8221; more countries in mind for games, including Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an international sport\u2019s temporary takeover of America comes to an end, America\u2019s predominant sport aims to continue its international takeover.<\/p>\n<p>Via Sportico, Commissioner Roger Goodell was asked Thursday at Fanatics Fest if there\u2019s a new country in which the NFL would like to stage a regular-season game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got about 10,\u201d Goodell said.<\/p>\n<p>He named one: <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/roger-goodell-wants-nfl-suit-232158512.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALY242rYBrT7yZlorq7pQWr4YJ3kcKl9vieEDA-s-d9_gnC3N26TPDSVulgybUshLrle04dtYu4xbfvedQlX3ZKA6g6-YhNro37uEevEGeSNTEuG5qRVBiAGRjpjKNZz-_0V6eQKBcq8bmrbL4PZWpKSyWbCN0x-934J_azpB1On\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Japan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did have a game in Tokyo,\u201d Goodell said, \u201cbut it was a preseason game, so we want to do a regular-season game now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NFL wants to increase the number of permissible annual international games to 16. That hinges on the NFL Players Association agreeing to increase the current limit of 10.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL has played multiple exhibition games in Tokyo, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/adventures-abroad-remembering-nfl-s-1976-foray-into-japan-0ap3000000739785\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">dating back to 1976<\/a> when the Chargers played the Cardinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As an international sport\u2019s temporary takeover of America comes to an end, America\u2019s predominant sport aims to continue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-767854","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\/767854","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=767854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}