How successful is the NFL at increasing overseas popularity, and even recruitment, since thats so huge in baseball and basketball?
Goodell: I think our game is tremendously popular in international markets. We continue to have successful regular season games in the UK. The fan reaction has been overwhelmingly positive. We also play in Canada. We are looking to play a regular season game in Mexico again, but between our media coverage, between our games, between our efforts on the grassroots, the game continues to grow. The grassroots also gives us the opportunity to develop players. We’ve seen more and more players have the ability to play and hopefully are going to have the ability to play on the NFL level. And that comes over a period of time. They have to understand the fundamentals and have the proper coaching. We had a player this year from China, Ed Wang, who was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the fifth round. And that’s a great thing for our international development. We don’t have NFL Europe any longer because we reevaluated our entire strategy and that’s how we came up with our regular-season NFL games.
