I think it will be decades before the NFL ever puts a team in Europe. It isn’t much of an international sport at all. We’ll see NFL teams in Canada and Mexico before we see them over there.
Canada is a no go without serious negotiations, they actually have a non-compete with the CFL. There was a lot of chatter when they played a couple of Bill’s games in Toronto. The problem with Mexico is they’re poor and the country has been a mess for over a century, I don’t think the NFL wants to put 100 kidnapping targets in there. Europe has money, already sells out 3 games a year, stability, and they don’t pay their athletes much so the NFL can be a serious lure for talent. Yeah, the travel situation is nasty, but with a once a week league that can be dealt with.