NFL could expand to BRAZIL before Europe?

NFL could expand to BRAZIL before Europe?

Here’s Brody Brazil. I absolutely love the steady flow of voicemails that this YouTube channel gets every single day. 8334 Brody is the number you call in. I do get to listen to every single message you leave. Unfortunately, I can’t use all of them, but I do try and get to the very best ones here on future videos. Hi, Brody. This is Bradley Aldery from Greenville, Ohio. I have a question for you. Just recently, they just reported that starting in the 2026 NFL season, they’re going to have three regular season games in Brazil. My question to you is, could it be possible down the line that an NFL expansion team may be playing in Brazil in the near future? The contract is starting in 2026, the NFL will play three regular season games that year in the next five years. Five years. Yep. What is your view? And could it be possible that a NFL team could land in Brazil? Thanks, Brody. I appreciate it. Appreciate your time. Thank you, Bradley. Thank you for the call. Sorry I stepped on you there at the end. Are you asking Brody Brazil to consider and ponder the idea of the NFL permanently landing in Brazil? Are these just exhibition games? Is this a trial run for a future NFL franchise in South America? I think there’s a lot to look at here. I think there’s a lot to go on. By the way, we’re in the midst of that very heavy international schedule for the NFL. Playing in Ireland, playing some games in London in the next few weeks, eventually getting out to Spain, I think, for the very first time. But to your point, NFL games in Brazil are coming at a much more rapid clip. They were playing in Sao Paulo the last couple times. In fact, to kick off this season, they did. But three NFL games over the next five seasons in Rio starting next year in 2026. Now, the NFL has played two prior games in the country of Brazil. 57 total international games under the NFL’s belt, including England, Ireland, Mexico, Germany, and Canada. And again, Spain is going to be added to that list and 57 is going to grow past 60 here by the end of this season quite quickly. I know a lot of people speculate, will the NFL add teams in Europe? And maybe to some degree that makes more sense because there might be more countries in the mix, maybe Germany, maybe Spain, maybe the United Kingdom. Maybe you could do a whole division over there. Maybe that to some degree makes sense. Although logistically like we need to have a whole separate conversation, I get why Europe might be the first thing to think about. But what I’m realizing here is the more that the NFL tests out these games in South America, now it is important to consider all of these a test and the NFL has done this almost 60 times in recent decades. They’re figuring out how to do this. how to drop into a city, how to bring two teams in, how to figure out ticket sales and merchandising and logistics and all that stuff. This is all very difficult. Like a whole team of people work year round to pull this off, but they’re getting better at this to the point that it’s someday they just might say, “Hey, we feel confident enough about this market. We’ve built up enough of a foundation. Let’s throw a permanent team here.” But my point is South America and Brazil specifically, that might be the easier country and continent than Europe. Time zone difference isn’t as bad. South America versus Europe. The distance to travel from especially most of the southern United States cities to Brazil, even Rio where it’s at, it’s it’s still a shorter distance than going all the way across the pond. Weatherwise, I think you’re you’re still more favorable than going across the pond in November, December, January. And Brazil has the second largest NFL fan base according to the NFL at an estimated 36 million fans. How do you quantify an NFL fan in Brazil? Does that mean they’ve they’ve watched games, they log on, they have merchandise, they’ve bought tickets? How do you really know what the number is? But if the NFL themselves are telling you, hey, this is where we’ve got the second biggest fan base. Oh, by the way, outside of the United States, then Brazil is pretty enticing. And I promise you, I’m not trying to just make this case because that’s my last name. And no, by the way, I’ve never been to Brazil. I’m not from Brazil. I have literally no connections to Brazil. It’s just my last name. I’ve been answering that question since elementary school. But I digress. Roger Goodell, the NFL’s commissioner, has already said it is a goal of the league to get to 16 international NFL games each season, right? And I think this year they might be up to six or seven. Six or seven total. So to go from that from six or seven to 16 is quite the hall. I do believe that this might happen first. 16 international games per season. Even if it gets to 12 and stops at 12, they’re basically doubling what they do internationally now. Eventually, they think they want every NFL team to play one overseas game per season or at least out of the country, maybe a game in Canada, maybe a game in Mexico. And by the way, we’ve kind of glossed over that. Why not stick around in North America? People have talked about a team in Toronto. Well, there’s a challenge. You’re right around the corner from Buffalo and Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment owns everything in Toronto. I’ve I’ve covered that topic to some degree before. Toronto’s hard permanently, but it might be a great spot to drop in and play a game at Skydome at Rogers Center if they can still configure it for football. I think they can. Mexico City has obviously hosted football games in recent years. So, let’s not entirely skip over North America, but eventually I do see the NFL playing a lot more overseas games and then adding an international team or international division and then they might actually scale it down because then you don’t want teams going over to that division to have to play more games than they’re accustomed to. I think what they’re doing here with these exhibition, well, not exhibition series, but um demonstration type games, they’re trying to prove that the travel works. They can do this here and there, and that eventually all of that is the foundation for permanently having a team or several teams either in Europe or South America or wherever. But I just want to point out that yeah, this three NFL games in in the next 5 years in Brazil, um that’s huge. It is a statement. It is a test. It is a trial and so long as we see positive results, I think you can see the direction of this. In my lifetime, I think there will be NFL teams overseas on a different continent. That’s that’s the better way to put it. There will be NFL teams on different continents besides North America in my lifetime. Let me know what you think about that in the comments section down below. Also, while you’re there, thumbs up helps me this video, this channel. Don’t forget to hit that subscribe button. I would love to see you back here next time.

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The NFL will play three regular-season games over five years in Rio de Janeiro beginning in 2026.

The league announced the multiyear commitment Friday as part of its ongoing plan to take international games to new cities around the world.

The NFL already has played twice in Brazil — Green Bay Packers and Philadelphia Eagles in 2024; Kansas City Chiefs and Los Angeles Chargers in Week 1 this season — at Corinthians Arena in São Paulo. The league will now expand across the country to the iconic Maracanã Stadium in Rio.

The Detroit Lions, Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots and Philadelphia have international marketing rights in Brazil under the NFL’s global markets program, which promotes brand awareness and fandom beyond the United States.

“Building on the success of the games in Sao Paulo, we could not be more excited to play in one of the world’s most iconic cities — Rio de Janeiro,” NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement. “We look forward to working closely with our city and state partners in Rio along with the historic Maracana Stadium to deepen our ties to the tens of millions of fans in Brazil and across South America.”

The NFL has played 56 regular-season games internationally, with London, Mexico City, Munich, São Paulo, Toronto and Frankfurt, Germany, hosting games to date. As part of the 2025 International Games and following the opener in São Paulo, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Minnesota Vikings will face off in Dublin on Sunday, and London, Berlin and Madrid will host games in the coming weeks.

Read More: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46388787/brazil-host-3-nfl-regular-season-games-next-5-years

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