{"id":10802,"date":"2024-10-13T17:40:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T17:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=10802"},"modified":"2024-10-13T17:40:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T17:40:17","slug":"super-bowl-outside-usa-wouldnt-surprise-nfl-commish-roger-goodell-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=10802","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl Outside USA Wouldn’t Surprise NFL Commish Roger Goodell ‘At All’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With the NFL increasing its international footprint, commissioner Roger Goodell didn’t rule out the idea of staging the Super Bowl outside of the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“We’ve always traditionally tried to play a Super Bowl in an NFL city\u2014that was always sort of a reward for the cities that have NFL franchises,” he said Saturday at a fan forum, per the Associated Press’\u00a0Ken Maguire<\/a>. “But things change. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if that happens one day.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Goodell’s comments aren’t necessarily that revelatory. In 2007, a little over a year after he succeeded Paul Tagliabue as the league commissioner, he\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0putting the Super Bowl was an idea “we’ll be looking at.”<\/p>\n

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But a lot has changed in the intervening years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The NFL was only just launching its International Series 2007. What became an annual game abroad in London has expanded to include events across multiple continents. The 2024 season features three games in London and one each in Munich and S\u00e3o Paulo. Madrid is\u00a0entering the rotation<\/a>\u00a0in 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tapping deeper into international markets is also the NFL’s\u00a0most straightforward path<\/a>\u00a0to maintaining its increasing revenues. At a certain point, there’s only so much money to mine domestically.<\/p>\n

Taking its annual centerpiece to London, Paris, Madrid or a different major city outside of the U.S. would be a natural step in that process, though it wouldn’t be well received by American fans.<\/p>\n

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Take the most popular American sporting event and play it outside of America? Worst idea I’ve ever heard of in my entire life https:\/\/t.co\/9oK2jRzG5M<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Evan Hill (@EvanHillHB) October 13, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n