{"id":724759,"date":"2026-02-02T22:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/724759\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T22:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:35:15","slug":"question-of-the-day-do-you-like-the-bears-playing-international-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/724759\/","title":{"rendered":"Question of the Day: Do you like the Bears playing International Games?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Earlier today, the NFL announced that they\u2019ll play a 2026 regular season game in Madrid, Spain, and a game in Paris, France, which brings the confirmed number of such games in the league\u2019s International Series to eight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The NFL will also play a game in Melbourne, Australia, one game in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, one in Munich, Germany, and three games in London, U.K.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Chicago Bears have nine home games this season, so technically the NFL could have the Bears host a game in one of these markets, and there\u2019s a lot of buzz that they get the nod for a game in Spain this upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">All 32 franchises now have International Markets assigned to them, with Chicago\u2019s being Spain and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Bears share marketing rights in Spain with the Kansas City Chiefs and the Miami Dolphins, and they share the U.K. rights with the Baltimore Ravens, Green Bay Packers, Jacksonville Jaguars, Kansas City Chiefs, Miami Dolphins, Minnesota Vikings, New York Jets, and the San Francisco 49ers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Do you think the Bears will be chosen to play in an International game in 2026?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Do you like the idea of your favorite team getting the international spotlight?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier today, the NFL announced that they\u2019ll play a 2026 regular season game in Madrid, Spain, and a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[374,692,391,58736,85235,2493,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-724759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bears","8":"tag-bears","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-bears","11":"tag-chicago-bears-conversation-starters-and-community-questions","12":"tag-chicago-bears-discussion","13":"tag-chicagobears","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116003427409824272","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}