Today the NFL announced the teams who would play host in their international games this season. The Raiders are, of course, not among them. They played host in international games five times from 2014-19 while they still played their *actual* home games in the old Oakland Coliseum.
They paid their debt as host so that now that they have their new stadium in their new home in Las Vegas, other teams get to send their home games overseas. But that doesn’t mean they can’t or won’t get asked to make one of their road games a little bit of a longer flight.
The host teams that were announced today are as follows: