Megyn Kelly, Dave Portnoy blast NFL’s Roger Goodell for suggesting Super Bowl could be played outside US

Megyn Kelly and Dave Portnoy are blasting NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell over the league’s international ambitions — with both taking aim at the prospect of someday holding the Super Bowl outside the US.

“Playing the Super Bowl outside of America would be like celebrating July 4th in England,” Kelly, who hosts SiriusXM’s “The Megyn Kelly Show,” told The Post on Friday.

“What could Goodell be thinking? Football is a quintessentially American sport — created in America by an American, in and with the support of American cities.”

Kelly added: “Why would we ever celebrate its biggest, most exciting, most-watched moment (and give all of the revenues that come annually to an American host city) outside of our own country?”

Portnoy, the Barstool Sports founder, likewise unloaded on Goodell and the NFL’s international push during a Friday appearance on Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Co.”

“It’s a good idea for the owners, I suppose. It’s a bad idea for fans,” Portnoy told anchor Stuart Varney.

“No NFL fans want to be traveling to London or places to watch play with weird times. I don’t think the players do it.”

Portnoy acknowledged the business rationale behind the league’s global expansion, saying that “like any business in the world, once you think you have saturated a market, you got to continue to look to ways to grow.”

But the outspoken sports-world personality made clear he wants no part of it.

“I hate it. I think it’s bad for the fans. I think it’s bad for the game. I think the games overseas stink. There’s not enough practice time,” Portnoy said.

“It’s just expanding the bottom line. That’s all he cares about. So, for the owners, good, for everybody else, bad.”

The criticism comes as Goodell has opened the door wider than ever to the possibility of eventually taking the NFL’s biggest game overseas.

He said this week there was “no doubt” the NFL would eventually have teams outside the United States and said international cities could host a Super Bowl — although the league would like to have an NFL team in such a city first.

The commissioner’s comments marked the latest step in the NFL’s increasingly aggressive international expansion.

The league enters the 2026 season with a record nine international regular-season games across four continents, seven countries and eight stadiums.

NFL owners in May approved the ability to play as many as 10 international games per season beyond 2026, while Goodell has identified 16 — one for every team — as the league’s long-term goal.

Goodell’s stance on taking the Super Bowl abroad has also softened considerably over the years.

In 2018, he said owners viewed hosting the championship game partly as a reward for cities with NFL franchises and suggested London would be a difficult choice without no team there.

By 2024, however, Goodell said the league’s tradition of holding the Super Bowl in NFL cities could change and that he would not be surprised to see the game eventually played internationally.

London has emerged as the NFL’s most established market outside the US.

The league says more than 3 million people have attended regular-season games there since 2007 and estimates the UK has more than 17 million NFL fans.

But taking the Super Bowl across the pond could create a major headache for the league’s lucrative US television audience.

Keeping the game’s traditional roughly 6:30 p.m. Eastern kickoff would mean starting at 11:30 p.m. in London — and at 12:30 a.m. Monday in cities such as Paris and Madrid.

That problem would be far less severe in Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro, where the same US kickoff would fall at roughly 5:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., respectively, in February.

Portnoy, meanwhile, scoffed at the suggestion that Goodell deserves credit for growing the league.

“Me, you, and anybody with a brain could expand the NFL,” Portnoy said. “It’s the most dominant product in the United States.”

“It doesn’t take a genius to expand the game. People in America love football. They’re addicted to football.”

Portnoy added that his “2-year-old nephew who has no brain cells could expand the NFL.”

“This game is bulletproof,” he said. “So, big whoop.”

The Post has sought comment from Goodell.