Will Mexico Play Host to Five National Football League Regular Season Games? Sameer Bhuchar - 247Sports.com
go to original August 7, 2015

The NFL may be back in Mexico very soon.

NFL Mexico director Arturo Olivé told Spanish newspaper AS that the country has raised enough sponsorship money to host five regular season games, one per season, from 2017 or 2018.

"We’re taking steps in the right direction so that eventually, this platform (of sponsors) which we have reconstructed will enable us to talk directly to the NFL in New York about the possibility of staging games in Mexico,” Olivé said.

The last time Mexico hosted an NFL game was in a 2005 regular season bout between the Arizona Cardinals and San Francisco 49ers. The game drew over 100,000 fans into Mexico's famed Azteca stadium, although Olivé said Azteca would not be considered a host stadium in this latest proposal.

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