The NFL’s International Series will continue next season, as the league aims to expand the game, and Jerry Jones’s Dallas Cowboys will be part of the slate to fly abroad. While most teams head to Europe, ‘America’s Team’ will fly south to Brazil. Latin football fans are on the rise, and the Cowboys will get to see it firsthand next season.
How does the team feel about playing in South America instead of Europe?
Jerry Jones’s Daughter Says Cowboys Want To Capitalize in Brazil
Brazil has featured and still does in the NFL in the form of key players. Tight end Damian Vaughn, who has Brazilian roots, played for the Cincinnati Bengals and Tampa Bay Buccaneers between the 1990s and 2000s. Even more significantly, kicker Cairo Santos has been a consistent name in the league for the past 12 years, having kicked for five different teams.
However, despite their abundance, Latin fans haven’t been as involved. Only recently, when the NFL started making a dedicated effort to expand to South America, have those fans been accommodated.
Jones’s daughter, Charlotte, commented on the prospect of the Cowboys playing in Rio de Janeiro next season. “There are a lot of NFL fans in Rio,” she said, via Nick Harris. “That’s why the NFL wants to go there, because it’s a significant fandom for the league. This is our first time to play in Rio — it was in Sao Paulo before. So, they wanted us to come Christen that game.”
One regular-season game was played in the country in 2024, while 2025 saw another, with the league now planning to schedule the Cowboys for a game there in 2026 as well. Their opponent, though, is yet to be determined.
Five teams are already locked in for international trips this year. In addition to Dallas’s game against the Rio, the LA Rams and San Francisco 49ers will face off in Melbourne, Australia. The New Orleans Saints, meanwhile, will take on Stade de France in Paris.
The Jacksonville Jaguars (76.6 PFSN Offense Impact), on the other hand, will once again travel to Wembley Stadium, where they’ve become extremely popular among English fans.
The Cowboys will travel abroad for the first time in 12 years. They previously faced the Jaguars at Wembley Stadium in 2014, when Dallas went 12-4 under Jason Garrett and Jacksonville finished 3-13.
The game was, to no one’s surprise, a lopsided thrashing, as Tony Romo picked apart the Jags’ defense to the tune of 246 yards, three touchdowns, and no interceptions. Running back DeMarco Murray rushed for 100 yards, and wideout Dez Bryant booked 158 receiving yards with two scores. Dallas walked away with the 31-17 win.
