(Reuters) - National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell said on Wednesday that China is too big a market to ignore and the league is working on holding a regular season game there within the next couple of years.
Goodell, speaking during a news conference at the end of the NFL owners meeting in Boca Raton, Florida, said "multiple" teams were interested in making the trek for a first regular season game in Asia.
"The size and the influence of China in the global marketplace is obviously something that you can't ignore," said Goodell. "You can’t ignore that as a sport, or a business, or as a nation.