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The NFL has not yet reached a conclusion on a Canadian venue, Waller said, nor does it disclose findings of such information missions.

The NFL is contracted to play at least three games annually in the United Kingdom through 2020. Four games will be played in England in 2017.

Goodell announced Wednesday a game this fall will be played in Mexico City for the second straight year.

In October 2015, Waller had said Canada is among the top candidate countries the league wants to expand to, after the U.K. and Mexico and probably Germany.

“We also visited a number of German cities (in 2016), just so you have that as context,” Waller said on Wednesday. “And we do that all the time. We’ve looked at stadiums in Brazil, I’ve looked at stadiums in Australia and China. That’s our job.”

But Waller is now stopping short of suggesting Germany remains ahead of Canada in the queue.

“I wouldn’t like to think of it as a pecking order, to be honest,” he said. “It’s very much looking at what teams we have available to play, and how many games we are already committed to.

“We have a great fan base up there in Canada. It’s a great market for us. I would love to be back there, and obviously from a logistical standpoint, a scheduling standpoint, a broadcast standpoint, that’s much easier for us than a game in Germany, and certainly a game in China. So I would have Canada high on the list.”

While it’s not easy for the league to free up enough willing teams to play in international games, Toronto and Montreal are only a short plane ride from many NFL teams situated in the U.S. Northeast.