Collegiate Sports

[Seminole Red]

Goodell tabs London as possible candidate to host Super Bowl

October 16, 2007
PHOENIX (TICKER) -- As the NFL prepares to play its first ever regular-season game in London, Roger Goodell is thinking bigger.

The second-year commissioner believes London is a candidate to host a future Super Bowl, an event that has never in history been held outside the United States.

"There's a great deal of interest in having a Super Bowl in London," Goodell said in a news conference Monday in Phoenix, which will host the 2008 Super Bowl. "We'll be looking at that."

ADVERTISEMENT


The Miami Dolphins and New York Giants are due to play at Wembley Stadium in London on October 28.

It will be the second regular-season game the NFL has played overseas after the fantastic success of a game between the San Francisco 49ers and Arizona Cardinals in Mexico City in 2005 - a contest which attracted an NFL record 103,467 fans.

Goodell said that, regardless of whether an overseas Super Bowl were to happen, more regular-season games are in the pipeline.