Football

10/23/2026 |  NFL’s Global Takeover Is Just Beginning (Front Office Sports) The NFL’s big global ambitions are only going to get bigger.
Sunday’s matchup in Paris between the Saints and Steelers is one of the league’s 9 international games this season. But the NFL’s future could include 10 games outside the U.S. next season; perhaps 16 international games annually, in conjunction with a prospective 18-game regular season in the not-too-distant future; and maybe, just maybe, a franchise eventually based overseas and a Super Bowl in an international venue.

10/23/2026 |  Bowl Games Face Uncertain Future With a 24-Team CFP (Front Office Sports) Momentum for an expanded, 24-team College Football Playoff continues to surge forward, with an expectation that it will arrive as soon as 2027. Its implementation will create a ripple effect across the sport, and in regard to the postseason, the future of bowl games is squarely in focus. 

10/23/2026 |  NFL closes Paris pop-up shop ahead of planned protests (Reuters Sports) The NFL will close its Paris pop-up shop on Saturday because of planned demonstrations in the French ​capital ahead of this weekend's regular-season game between the Pittsburgh ‌Steelers and New Orleans Saints, the league said on Friday.
The store on Rue Saint-Merri had been operating as part of events surrounding Sunday's ​game at the Stade de France, the first ​NFL regular-season contest to be held in France.

10/22/2026 |  NFL viewership inching further ahead of last season (Sports Media Watch) After viewership pulled ahead of last year’s pace in Week 5, the NFL extended its lead in Week 6 of the season.
NFL regular season windows were averaging 18.5 million viewers through Week 6 of the season, up 2% from the same point last year (18.2M) and officially behind only 2015 (18.7M) and 2010 (18.6M) as the highest six-week average in the Nielsen people-meter era.

10/20/2026 |  NFL Says There Will be ‘Heightened’ Security at Paris Game (Front Office Sports) The NFL will have “heightened” security measures around the Saints-Steelers game scheduled to be played Sunday in Paris amid the civil unrest and violence occurring in France, a top league executive said Tuesday.
“Our team’s been on the ground,” said Peter O’Reilly, the NFL’s executive vice president of club business, international, and league events.