A future NFL champion may someday be crowned overseas in a game witnessed predominantly by a foreign audience, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said.
“There’s a great deal of interest in holding a Super Bowl in London,” Goodell told reporters Monday. “So we’ll be looking at that.”
The commissioner said London’s Wembley Stadium would make a great candidate for American pro football’s biggest matchup, given the opening of the stadium’s lastest incarnation and enthusiasm overseas for the game.
The NFL has been expanding its overseas presence for years by televising games around the world. It’s held preseason games in numerous countries in Europe, Asia, Mexico and Canada, and in 2005, the Arizona Cardinals and San Francisco 49ers played the first regular-season match outside the U.S.
The game at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City drew the league’s largest crowd to date, 103,467.
On Oct. 28, Wembley will host the first regular-season NFL game outside North America. It took just 90 minutes to sell the first 40,000 tickets for the game between the Miami Dolphins and New York Giants. Goodell said event organizers have sold 95,000 tickets in all.
Goodell spoke about the possibility of a British Super Bowl after a luncheon Monday in Scottsdale sponsored by the host committee for the 2008 Super Bowl in Arizona.
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October 16, 2007 at 11:28 am
Cha-ching. My first response was “Stupid, stupid, stupid.” But then after thinking about it, most normal folk can’t afford to go to the game anyway.
I really don’t see them doing it with the time-zone difference. They will want to keep it right where it is at on early Sunday night advertising wise.
October 16, 2007 at 8:40 pm
I think its gonna be sold out, no matter where or when it is played.
Nobody would care in Europe if the game starts at 2200 or 2300. To be there is the most important thing.
So bring it here…