NFL players enthusiastic about prospect of pursuing Olympic gold when flag football debuts in 2028

AP ^ | February 3, 2024 | FRED GOODALL

[EEGator]

I remember a former NFL player by the name of Robert Edwards.
Young, with a great football career ahead of him.
He blew his knee out during a NFL Rookie beach flag football game in HI.
Almost had his leg amputated from complications.
Out 4 years, never the same.

[EEGator]

Cornhole has a strong connection to Ancient Greece.

[HombreSecreto]

When San Francisco hosts the games?

[Jeff Chandler]

I can’t believe they eliminated the Lawn Dart competition.

[Bishop_Malachi]

The NFL is already trending towards flag-football. Just be patient.

[MinorityRepublican]

The NFL is already trending towards flag-football. Just be patient.

It's already unwatchable at this point.

[SaxxonWoods]

I might actually watch flag football. NFL has become a annoying bore, haven’t watched it in 8 years.

[basalt]

can they ruin and cheapen the Olympics any further??...geez.

[Hot Tabasco]

I can't wait until corn hole, poker, pickle ball and the blind man obstacle course become olympic events.

[Hot Tabasco]

a seven-on-seven flag exhibition that will offer fans and a national television audience a sense of what the sport could look like with such highly skilled talent on the field.

I watched some of it and it was a joke and certainly not worthy of an olympic event.

I wish they would bring back racquetball and women's softball........

and dump basketball.

[ncalburt]

When is hopscotch’s time for glory .

[HartleyMBaldwin]

When they made waving-a-piece-of-toilet-paper-on-a-stick a gymnastics event, I could see the end was approaching for the Olympics.

Time to bring back pankration.

[Rummyfan]

The Olympics have become a joke. Skateboarding? Surfing? and now flag football?! C’mon!

[FreedomPoster]

And disc golf!?

LOL

[LeoTDB69]

Personal foul, 15 yard penalty for a late hit on the runner. #58 on the defense pulled the runner’s flag after the whistle.

[Hyman Roth]

I see what you did there. Old joke. How do you separate the men from the boys in Greece. With a crow bar.

[rlmorel]

The Olympics are completely asinine. They ruined it, and I believe it all began when they started allowing professionals to compete.

[xp38]

How many other countries even know what flag football even is? Canada is all I can think of.

[Bullish]

I think you’re right about the pro athlete thing, it ruined it. The Olympics have been over for me for quite a number of years.

Truly a shame.