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Tottenham wants to own NFL team in London, proposes football-soccer doubleheader

The Tottenham Hotspur is gunning for the ultimate American and English football experience.

The soccer club wants to own it's own NFL team when its revamped stadium is complete in 2018, something chairman Daniel Levy thinks is completely feasible.

The plan already has taken a step in the right direction with the new White Hart Lane stadium to play host to two NFL games per year starting in 2018, but Levy wants more.

“We worked together because it needed to be viewed as a combined joint soccer and NFL stadium,” Levy told ESPN. “In fact, the way we designed the whole experience is one side of the stadium is a dedicated soccer entrance and the other side is a dedicated NFL entrance.