SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - A future Super Bowl 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 new Wembley Stadium would make a great candidate for pro football's biggest matchup, given the enthusiasm overseas for the game.
The NFL has been expanding its overseas presence for years by televising games in Mexico, Canada and the United Kingdom. It's held preseason games in numerous countries and in 2005, the Arizona Cardinals and San Francisco 49ers played the first regular-season game outside the United States.
The game at Azteca Stadium in Mexico drew the league's largest crowd to date, Goodell said, with 103,467 fans in attendance.
On Oct. 28, Wembley Stadium 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 Oct. 28 game between the Miami Dolphins and New York Giants. Goodell said that 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.
Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press.
