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Commissioner Roger Goodell: NFL will never leave London

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LONDON — The NFL “will never leave” London, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell told a fan forum Saturday.

He was asked how soon the NFL will increase their slate of international games to eight per season. The NFL played its first game in Brazil this year. He wants to continue playing there, and in other “markets that we’d like to be in” across the globe, including Ireland.

“We want to get to those,” he said, via a live stream of the meeting. “But we gotta make sure that our foundation, which is this market … Germany’s getting close to that too.