{"id":828491,"date":"2026-03-23T04:41:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T04:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/828491\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T04:41:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T04:41:45","slug":"joe-burrow-wants-to-play-in-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/828491\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Burrow wants to play in the Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Flag football being a part of the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles is going to give a lot of NFL players the opportunity to compete in the Olympics, something that didn\u2019t seem inevitable for the previous generation of NFL players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI\u2019ve always wanted to play in the Olympics,\u201d Burrow said in a press conference at the Fanatics Flag Football Classic. \u201cI\u2019ve never necessarily played an Olympic sport before, so when this got announced, I was pretty excited about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThe opportunity to win a gold medal (is) something that I\u2019ve thought about &#8212; a moment like that &#8212; for a long time, since I was a kid. I think it would be something very special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This weekend is the Fanatics Flag Football Classic, with Burrow leading Wildcats FFC along with Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels and San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan being their head coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Wildcats FFC, along with Founders FFC, will both compete against the U.S. national team in a round-robin tournament. Founders FFC is highlighted by Tom Brady, Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts, and Denver Broncos head coach Sean Payton manning the sideline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flag football being a part of the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles is going to give a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,227,256,1561,2296,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-828491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-bengals","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals-news","12":"tag-cincinnatibengals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116276657327613804","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828491","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=828491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}