From Tom Brady\u2019s budding rivalry with Logan Paul to Joe Burrow\u2019s on-field struggles, the 2026 rendition of Fanatic\u2019s Flag Football Classic certainly delivered plenty of headlines this year, but none of them proved to be more important than the scoreboards themselves. Team USA managed to dust both the Wildcats and the Founders, validating both their captain, Darrell Doucette, and his assertion that \u201cThis is our sport.\u201d<\/p>\n
As a result of Team USA outscoring the field 106-44, many in the press have begun to wonder if the event serves as a bit of a black eye for the NFL on account of its most recognizable names losing to a bunch of \u2018randoms\u2019 in a game that is fashioned similarly to theirs. \u201cThe boys were bamboozled,\u201d Pat McAfee suggested during his latest<\/a> broadcast.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think the NFL guys, retired or currently playing, had any idea that these guys had the whoop-de-whoop moves,\u201d McAfee joked. \u201cDid the boys know that that was who they were playing? \u2026Did Joe Burrow know that he was going to be playing against the greatest flag football team of all time? \u2026These flaggers knew that they would cook these NFL guys.\u201d<\/p>\n In referencing the fact that Team USA felt slighted by both the NFL and the public\u2019s assertion that professional football players should be the ones to represent the nation when the sport is introduced to the Olympics in 2028, McAfee suggested that there should be a strong sense of \u201cI told you so\u201d emanating from Team USA today. Although, he is still willing to maintain his hunch that NFL players weren\u2019t fully aware of what they had signed up for.<\/p>\n \u201cDid all the boys know that they were running into a juggernaut of flag football talent?\u201d he questioned. \u201cI don\u2019t think they did. And if they agreed to put that on TV\u2026 I\u2019m just confused by it all.\u201d<\/p>\n Nevertheless, even the former NFL player himself had to admit that he\u2019s now as confident as ever that the U.S. will be taking home the gold in 2028. \u201cI feel like Team USA flag football is in a good spot\u2026 I think these guys are good.\u201d<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Suffice to say, that\u2019s all that Team USA wanted from the beginning, their due recognition. While they may be a bit annoyed that it required such an outing to prove their point in the first place, all that matters now is that they\u2019ve seemingly secured their spot in the Olympic games.<\/p>\n The post NFL\u2019s Top Stars Embarassed?: Pat McAfee Reflects on Big Names Getting Humbled in Flag Football<\/a> appeared first on The SportsRush<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Tom Brady\u2019s budding rivalry with Logan Paul to Joe Burrow\u2019s on-field struggles, the 2026 rendition of Fanatic\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4530,7,1577,114695,6,4732,955,520,3861,20468,1369],"class_list":["post-830537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-flag-football","tag-football","tag-joe-burrow","tag-michael-longo","tag-nfl","tag-notre-dame-fighting-irish","tag-pat-mcafee","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-panthers","tag-team-usa","tag-tom-brady"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116282531754378122","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830537","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=830537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}