Green Bay Packers don’t have an international game after having one each in the last two seasons. They went 0-2 in those games.
The team has been to London, England when they played and lost to the New York Giants. The same was the result in 2024 when they battled and bowed to the Philadelphia Eagles in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
A future where each NFL team will play outside of America is on the horizon but the main issue for now is the overall health of the players.
Outgoing Packers president Mark Murphy sees the league having its teams play one international game each and the number of regular season games will be raised.
“A lot is up in the air quite honestly with what’s going on with the NFL Players Association, the change in leadership,” Murphy said.
“I think at some point in the future I would anticipate we would go to 18 regular-season games and two [preseason games] and that would give you a little more flexibility to play international games.”
Mark Murphy on logic behind international games
The NFL is trying to expand by going worldwide and expect international games to be a regular part of each team’s schedules.
Murphy is among those seeing the vision by commissioner Roger Goodell.
“It’s a long-term play,” he said.
“The results are not going to be immediate. I think for the league, the benefits of this will be much clearer 5, 10 years down the road. But you’re building a fan base.”
There are 13 teams flying abroad this season and the Packers did not happen to be one of them.
Among the locations are Sao Paulo, Dublin, London, Berlin, and Madrid.
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