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Micah Parsons just joined the Green Bay Packers for the season that concluded on Sunday with the Super Bowl.

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He’s not in a rush to go anywhere after being traded from the Dallas Cowboys. But he does have thoughts about joining another team.

The twist here: The team he wants to join doesn’t exist yet.

In a new interview with Front Office Sports, Parsons shared that he thinks the NFL needs to add an international team.

Parsons said a team overseas would be “like the Notre Dame of the NFL,” in that it would sort of stand alone like the college football independent Fighting Irish.

And if an international team existed? Parsons would “be the first one on board to over over,” he told Front Office Sports.

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The good news for the Packers is that even if the NFL were going to add an international team, it wouldn’t happen overnight. There are way too many logistics to figure out and league-wide implications for it to happen without a lot of advanced warning.

Part of the NFL’s consideration in forming an overseas franchise eventually would be uncertainty about whether players would want to deal with the added logistics of signing for and playing with a team located far away from the rest of the league.

A player like Parsons getting behind the idea of such a plan is a huge plus for the league, which would surely welcome more input like this from its players.

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And if a new franchise did indeed form and got to add the superstar Parsons as one of its first players, that’d be a huge boost in getting that upstart team off the ground.

For now, though, Parsons is a Packer, and he isn’t going anywhere.

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