{"id":70170,"date":"2025-05-22T12:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T12:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/70170\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T12:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T12:38:11","slug":"nfl-players-permitted-to-play-flag-football-at-2028-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/70170\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL players permitted to play flag football at 2028 Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/74936024007-armor-sports-flag-football-4.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/icon-play-alt-white.svg.svg+xml\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>RGIII breaks down his all NFL player flag football roster<\/p>\n<p>Robert Griffin III explains how flag football differs from typical football, and who in the NFL would play for his flag football team.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Seriously<\/p>\n<p>Flag football is coming to the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles \u2013 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/nfl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL<\/a> players can participate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/2025\/05\/20\/nfl-players-flag-football-2028-olympics\/83729468007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL owners voted to permit players to play in flag football at the Los Angeles Games<\/a>, during a vote at the spring league meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an incredible honor for any athlete to represent their country in the Olympics, which is the pinnacle of global sport,\u201d NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement. \u201cI know first-hand that the inclusion of flag football in the Olympics has sparked a tremendous amount of excitement among NFL players interested in the chance to compete for their country on the world stage. We are thrilled that they will now have that chance.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ratification required at least 24 out of 32 NFL owners to vote in favor of allowing players to participate in flag football.<\/p>\n<p>Flag football will make its Olympic debut at the 2028 Olympics. The International Olympic Committee announced in October 2023 that flag football would be included on the 2028 Olympics sports program.<\/p>\n<p>The Olympic flag football competition will consist of six men\u2019s teams and six women\u2019s teams composed of 10 players per team, with the game itself a five-on-five format. According to the NFL, NFL player participation with their countries\u2019 national flag football teams will begin with a tryout or qualification process in advance of the Olympic competition.<\/p>\n<p>Olympic flag football will be held at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles. The 22,000-seat soccer stadium\u00a0is adjacent to the LA Memorial Coliseum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no question that the 2028\u00a0Flag Football tournament at the LA28 Games will be one of the most exciting\u00a0competitions\u00a0in Olympic history, and the inclusion of NFL players\u00a0will bring it to new heights,&#8221; Los Angeles Olympics chairperson and president Casey Wasserman said in a statement. &#8220;This milestone would\u00a0not have been possible without the support of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell,\u00a0the NFL Players Association, its club owners and most importantly,\u00a0the athletes, who we\u2019ll look forward to watching on the field in 2028.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This story has been updated.<\/p>\n<p>Follow USA TODAY Sports&#8217; Tyler Dragon on X\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTylerDragon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@TheTylerDragon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RGIII breaks down his all NFL player flag football roster Robert Griffin III explains how flag football differs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[247,265,7,3556,248,267,88,6,8259,245,537,530,3555,1902,9,266],"class_list":{"0":"post-70170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-goodell","12":"tag-national","13":"tag-national-sports","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-olympics","17":"tag-overall","18":"tag-overall-positive","19":"tag-positive","20":"tag-roger","21":"tag-roger-goodell","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-sports-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114551528144920428","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}