\u201cI want that Super Bowl in Britain. I don\u2019t care when it takes place but I want it announced while I\u2019m ambassador,\u201d Mandelson added, to audience laughter. \u201cWe love it, we love it.\u201d<\/p>\n
London Mayor Sadiq Khan last year called for the Super Bowl<\/a> to take place in the city to solidify its status as the \u201csporting capital of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe Super Bowl is really important for us,\u201d Khan said at the time. \u201cWe have a number of American football games and I want it to come here because we want American sports fans in Europe to come to London to watch them, not just go to America.\u201d<\/p>\n London\u2019s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium will host two NFL games in October<\/a> but next year\u2019s Super Bowl final will take place in Levi\u2019s Stadium\u00a0in\u00a0Santa Clara, California on Feb. 8. <\/p>\n The Super Bowl has never taken place outside the U.S. since its creation in 1967. But it\u2019s not the only sporting competition political types want in the U.K.<\/p>\n Donald Trump\u2019s son Eric Trump called for the U.S. president\u2019s<\/a> Turnberry golf course in Scotland to host the Open Championship<\/a> after the tournament was last held there in 2009, five years before Trump purchased the estate. <\/p>\n However, organizers said it was unlikely to happen soon due to logistical challenges and commercial viability. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI want that Super Bowl in Britain. I don\u2019t care when it takes place but I want it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[1213,748,1193,1442,32,393,2826,4884,11582,25809,1144,28300,14252,712,16,15,49,1764,1202],"class_list":{"0":"post-346288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-americas","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-british-politics","13":"tag-competition","14":"tag-donald-trump","15":"tag-england","16":"tag-golf","17":"tag-great-britain","18":"tag-lobbying","19":"tag-mayors","20":"tag-northern-ireland","21":"tag-peter-mandelson","22":"tag-sadiq-khan","23":"tag-scotland","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-wales","28":"tag-westminster-bubble"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115032305481358001","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}