NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell Monday said in an interview that establishing teams in countries outside the United States is an inevitability.
“At some point, there will be NFL teams outside the USA. I have no doubt that this will happen one day,” Goodell said to former NFL player Markus Kuhn in interview for German broadcaster RTL/ntv.
Goodell went so far as to say that once an NFL team is established outside the U.S., that country could eventually host a Super Bowl.
“There are definitely international cities that could host something like that,” Goodell said of the Super Bowl. “But we would like to see an NFL team in such a city first.”
According to NBC Sports, the NFL will play an all-time high nine games outside the United States this season, with three in England and one each in Australia, Brazil, France, Spain, Germany and Mexico.
Should the NFL expand to another country, that team would play eight or nine home games a year, every year, in a foreign country.
