NFL star believes Tottenham Hotspur Stadium could host Super Bowl by the year 2030

The UK and USA flags displayed during the national anthems prior to the NFL game between Minnesota Vikings and Cleveland Browns at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium could host the Super Bowl within five years reckons an NFL star who has won that game's biggest prize.

Spurs ' home in N17 is the only purpose-built NFL stadium outside north America and on Sunday afternoon a 61,082-strong crowd, including Tottenham stars Djed Spence and Xavi Simons , packed into the stadium for the first of the two NFL London Games this month. The Minnesota Vikings claimed a 21-17 victory against the Cleveland Browns thanks to a Jordan Addison touchdown with 25 seconds left on the clock.

Tottenham's NFL deal was extended in 2023 until the end of the 2029/30 season and one of former chairman Daniel Levy's dreams was to have a double-header day with Spurs playing a Premier League game at lunchtime and then the grass pitch withdrawing for the artificial surface underneath to host an NFL encounter later that evening.

Levy's other hope was to have a London NFL franchise based full-time at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium one day alongside Spurs. There are hurdles galore to be jumped over before any NFL franchise could exist outside the USA, but the Premier League club have placed themselves in pole position to have one if that ever happens, with some experts tipping it to be a possibility within a decade.

In the mean time the next logical aim would be for a Super Bowl to be played at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and having the game in London is an idea that gained approval at the weekend from the owner of the Dallas Cowboys Jerry Jones.

"First of all, I’m for anything that promotes the growth or expands the eyeballs for the NFL," he said on 105.3 The Fan in Dallas. "And that has been really the goal and the practice of the NFL, certainly ever since I’ve been involved. There’s no question that having it out internationally, shouldn’t take away from our fan interests and eyeballs in the United States and should add significantly around the world, outside of the country. So, in general, I’m for that.

"I was pretty strong for years and years that it’s just never gonna be the same, my town against your town, relative to our football. It just can’t be transferred to Europe and other countries and so. . . . But I’ve changed that, and I’ve seen how you can take the ethos of our game and the theory behind the game and it calls on you to do unnatural things relative to physically and it calls you to play in a certain way that other sports don’t require. I think that carries over to the concept of the game, and I think that’s catching on and is very popular outside the United States. So I’m all for it."

Former Super Bowl winner and now Sky Sports pundit Ndamukong Suh was asked about the showpiece NFL game being played at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and he said: "Without question. There's no doubt in my mind that's on the table, and I would be willing to be bet in the next five years it happens. The world is their oyster where games go."

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell recently confirmed the aim to reach 16 international games per season, with every team set to play at least one international game in a campaign as they seek to expand the sport across the world.

The Denver Broncos are set to take on the New York Jets this coming Sunday at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in the second of the London Games.