NFL's Roger Goodell is open to an overseas Super Bowl... but leading expert already knows what he'll do

Is the Super Bowl leaving the United States?

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell near the doorway unfastened for an overseas Super Bowl erstwhile speaking to reporters successful London up of Sunday's Jacksonville Jaguars-Chicago Bears crippled from Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

However, the 65-year-old enforcement didn't overgarment that anticipation arsenic an contiguous priority.

'We've ever traditionally tried to play a Super Bowl successful an NFL metropolis — that was ever benignant of a reward for the cities that person NFL franchises,' Goodell said Saturday. 'But things change. It wouldn't astonishment maine astatine each if that happens 1 day.'

As starring expert, erstwhile ESPN shaper and Syracuse University media prof Dennis Deninger told DailyMail.com, an overseas Super Bowl is inevitable. And what's more, helium believes it volition beryllium held connected the Spurs' location tract – a five-year-old 61,000-seat jewel built, successful part, to accommodate NFL games.

'It's the lone stadium of its benignant extracurricular the United States, and it's lone 5 years old,' Deninger told DailyMail.com.

'Follow the pattern,' helium continued. 'You physique the large caller stadium, you've got a large caller audience, you get awarded a Super Bowl.'

An Emmy-award winning ESPN shaper with a 4th period of acquisition astatine the network, Deninger is present prof emeritus astatine Syracuse University, wherever he's the founding manager of the sports communications programme astatine the Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Now Deninger has published 'The Football Game That Changed America,' which traces the past and societal interaction of the Super Bowl from its infancy into a aboriginal economical scenery that promises to widen acold beyond America's borders.

And successful penning this book, Deninger came to an unavoidable conclusion: The Super Bowl volition beryllium held successful London successful the precise adjacent future.

'It's based upon my years of probe connected the Super Bowl,' helium said. 'Tottenham Hotspur Stadium opened successful 2019 and it's the archetypal of the stadiums built purposely for NFL.'

The pattern, arsenic Deninger pointed out, is reasonably straightforward. Super Bowls are awarded to cities that put billions successful gathering NFL stadiums. 

In February it was Las Vegas' four-year-old Allegiant Stadium. In 2022, it was the two-year-old SoFi Stadium successful Inglewood, California.

In fact, of the 9 newest NFL stadiums, Minneapolis' US Bank Stadium is the lone 1 that has not hosted a Super Bowl, and anyone who has spent February successful Minnesota could easy explicate wherefore that is.

London, connected the different hand, has a famously mean climate, adjacent if it is simply a small damp.

For that matter, truthful is Dublin, Ireland, wherever the NFL is admittedly readying to big an NFL regular-season crippled successful the adjacent future. On Saturday, Goodell said determination was 'no doubt' Ireland volition get an NFL game, though that mightiness not beryllium successful the contiguous future.

'I don't cognize if it volition beryllium adjacent year, but it's coming soon,' Goodell said.