NFL players & Flag Football in the 2028 LA Olympics

NFL players & Flag Football in the 2028 LA Olympics

Here’s Brody Brazil. You know, before we actually get into the meat and potatoes of this video, I actually have to make sure you’re up to speed on one thing in particular. Like, did you even know that flag football is going to be an official Olympic event at the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles? No, not tackle football and not football like European soccer football. Flag football, I kid you not, is going to be part of the 2028 Olympics. And next week, as you’re watching this, the NFL is actually going to take a vote, which we expect to go favorably in allowing its players to participate in the Olympics in the flag football event in Los Angeles in 2028. Now, this should work out timing wise for the players right before training camp, but there’s obviously also the risk of somebody getting hurt. And you also realize this is probably the league’s top players going to represent their countries, but also what other countries besides the United States really stands a chance in this. Well, we’ll get into all the details in a second, but just so you know, flag football’s in the Olympics and NFL players might be playing flag football in the Olympics in just a couple years. That’s sounding pretty likely right now. Flag football Olympic rules go like this. And I do realize you’ve probably already seen some Olympic events and sports where you say, “I didn’t even know this was a thing.” A lot of people were caught off by team handball. Even a handful of years ago, they’re like, “This is a pretty cool sport. I didn’t even know this was a thing.” So, the Olympics have always been known to take on different, unique, more rare sports, emerging sports. In this case, they’re doing it, I think, because it’s football and it’s the United States and it’s Los Angeles in 2028. Flag football, of course, making its Olympic debut. They’ve never done this before and they won’t have until 2028. They’ll have five players on the field, a 10erson total team, so maybe some offensive players, some defensive players, two 20-minute halves. The field dimensions are 70 yards wide by twzzones on both sides. Four downs to get to midfield, then you get another four downs to get into the end zone. So, it’s not the 10 yard marker, not moving the change. You literally have four cracks to get past midfield and then four cracks to get into the end zone. So, it’s a condensed version, right? Fewer players, smaller field, less chances, and no tackling. Uh you’re either going out of bounds, you’re uh taking a knee, the pass is incomplete, or somebody pulls your flag. In terms of NFL involvement, there is going to be that vote this upcoming week with the team’s owners and general managers, and it does sound like it is going to pass. The NFL says that they’re kind of supporting growth here, and they’re also figuring that they could advance league interests. And I do think this is going to get some attention, some exposure worldwide. Who are these NFL players from, you know, other countries across the world saying, “What what is this all about? I’m interested in this. I’ll start watching more flag football. Maybe it’s a gateway to watching more NFL football, which that season will begin in the coming months right after the 2028 Olympics. The NFL says they’re expanding the global reach of the NFL, providing greater opportunity for fan engagement and for our league partners. End quote. Translation, it’s a good business move. It might make the NFL more money. It might make them more popular. They’re willing to take that risk. They’re willing to send their top players there just for the possible outcome and benefit. There’s no charity here. They’re not doing this just to feel good and warm and fuzzy. They’re doing this because they think the league and its players in the and its owners could benefit. Here are the fine details. So, this isn’t just happening without a lot of thought, a lot of process to it. Any NFL player under contract can participate. So, there’s no exclusions. There’s no special like blocking of certain players because of their contract. Any player with an NFL contract would be allowed to participate under this vote. One player though per NFL team can be on each national team. So you cannot have one team stock one NFL team stockpiling uh a certain country or you can’t have five players from the whatever you know team you want to pick five players from Kansas City or whoever. You can’t do that. One player per NFL team on each national team. Now, how each player is going to be able to be part of a different national team, I guess that depends on their background, their citizenship, however that works from an Olympic perspective. So, you imagine that there could be some teams that send three or four players, but it’s not going to be like one team’s going to send three or four players to the United States Olympic team. There’s going to be a purchase of leaguewide insurance to cover any and all related injuries. Like, they don’t want to take their chances here and have the exception that somebody gets hurt. I mean, they just had this in hockey with the Four Nations tournament back in February. There were some players that had to miss some games, some weeks, and even the rest of the season based on injuries they suffered and sustained during that I don’t want to say exhibition tournament, but during games that didn’t matter to the league in their schedule. So, the league really wants to cover their their rear ends here by purchasing a leaguewide insurance package just to financially cover all bases. There also will be a salary cap credit for any injured players. Essentially, if you have a player that gets hurt, that’s not going to go against your salary cap and your luxury tax situation. That kind of gets wiped off the books if something bad were to happen here. Olympic teams also must establish medical teams up to NFL minimum standards, meaning that they just want the same attention and care and the same amount and quality of trainers and medical staff and resources, right? That that makes sense. like we we will send you our top tier players, but we can’t have like a a high school medical staff, a volunteer medical staff taking care of you. We need the pros of pros here at the Olympics. It’s also kind of a an interesting point here that the league has said they need a schedule that quote does not unreasonably conflict with any NFL players league and club commitments. So they can’t have the Olympic team doing gettogethers while there’s they still call them OTAAS or any other summer camp or event. So they don’t they just don’t want NFL football players to have to miss NFL practices, league events, team events, anything like that because of the Olympic commitments. Basically, if you can make this fit in your schedule, on your personal time, the NFL is totally okay with it. And yeah, by the way, the 2028 Summer Olympics, we don’t know when the football the flag football event would be part of that. I imagine probably a week or two during that time, but it’s from July 14th to July 30th of 2028. So theoretically, right, like that should work out just in time at the beginning of training camp and uh you know, does not unreasonably conflict conflict. Um you would think that players aren’t going to have to miss too much or any of training camp or it just it it will work out okay. It’s right at the very beginning of the season and they’ll be fine. So, here are my takeaways. Number one, the NFL is so lucky in general to have flag football as an alternative. And by that, I mean, tackle football is hard on the body and tackle football is expensive and you need pads and helmets and coaches to teach you how to tackle, right? But in flag football, it’s such a nice alternative because there’s not as many barriers to entry. like kids can play because all you need is a belt and a flag, flags on each side and cleat and that’s pretty much it. And it’s also nice for the Olympics because there’s no way traditional football would be an Olympic event, right? That’s just not it’s just not something I think they’d ever do, but flag football is a little bit more doable for the Olympics. So my point is the NFL is so lucky to have flag football as kind of like an alternate existence, an alternate marketing tool, an alternate way to get people interested in playing football at a barrier and and a a price point and an entry barrier that’s a lot less than playing actual football. I do feel like though with this flag football in the Olympics, it’s going to be kind of like baseball. And I say what other countries have the same chance as the United States, but obviously countries like Japan have very much emerged as being big baseball countries. Australia has always kind of been lurking in the weeds in baseball. But in terms of football, what other country even produces highlevel football players at the clip that the United States does? So depending on where these players from NFL teams can go represent different countries, I guess some other countries might have a chance depending on how flexible uh flexible they are. with citizenship and whatnot, but it’s just like is this we’re just going to watch the USA steamroll everybody else in flag football? Is that basically what it’s going to be? But still, I feel like this is the perfect opportunity for it to debut in Los Angeles. I don’t know that this is going to be a forever sport and Olympic event. Like they might just do flag football in 2028 and never ever do it again. That that could very well happen. But I do think especially if this is a one-off, but even if there’s some anticipation and buildup around it, and if really all the top players are going to be there, this will generate headlines, attention, ratings, all the above interest. It’ll generate all of that for the 2028 summer games. And the NFL is no dummy. That’s why they’re sending probably a lot of their top players to the Olympics. So, didn’t know if you knew that. Wanted to pass it along. Just wanted you to be aware that this upcoming week that could officially be a thing. NFL players at the Olympics in 28 playing flag football. Let me know what you think about all that in the comments section below. Also, thumbs up while you’re down there. That helps me, this video, and this channel. And also, don’t forget to hit that subscribe button, like right now. That way, there’s no question. 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