Roger Goodell: NFL desires 16 worldwide video games, with each staff enjoying one per 12 months

The NFL is much more decided than Stewie Griffin to attain world domination.

Appearing at a panel dialogue in Ireland, sooner or later earlier than the Vikings and Steelers play at Croke Park in Dublin, Commissioner Roger Goodell reiterated the league’s goals in relation to making the National Football League a world sport.

Via Brooke Pryor of ESPN.com, Goodell stated that the league wants to stage 16 international games per year, so that each staff will play one.

Sunday’s sport would be the NFL’s first regular-season foray into Ireland. Coming in 2026? Melbourne.

“[O]ur subsequent step after Australia might be transferring video games into Asia,” Goodell stated, per Pryor. “We are serious about being a global sport.”

If the aim is one non-American sport per staff per 12 months, the 2025 experiment involving the Vikings enjoying a pair of highway video games in Ireland and London is irrelevant. That effort underscores the truth that Minnesota’s prolonged European tour has nothing to do with the 16-game imaginative and prescient, and extra to do with testing the waters for the position of a staff in a rustic aside from the United States.

It will nonetheless take time for the NFL to get to 16. The present Collective Bargaining Agreement permits for a most of 10. To add six video games, the NFL will want the NFL Players Association to agree.

Given the current turmoil on the NFLPA, the probabilities of an extension earlier than 2031 have diminished. Which implies that, until the union settles on a everlasting government director shortly after which pivots to doing a brand new CBA, 16 worldwide video games are a minimum of six years away.