Flag football is a less-violent cousin of America's most popular sport, one the NFL has been selling in Europe, Mexico and Japan for decades.
The NFL's ongoing push for worldwide exposure got another boost Monday when organizers for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics delivered a proposal to put flag football on the program when the Summer Games return to the United States for the first time in 32 years.
LA chairman Casey Wasserman said the new sports are "relevant, innovative and community-based, played in backyards, schoolyards, community centres, stadiums and parks across the U.S. and the globe."Canadian B-boy Phil Wizard at forefront of breaking movement amid new Olympic era "Things have been going at a whipping pace for football," said Bettina Cornwell, a sports business expert at the University of Oregon. "It's a very smart idea to introduce a football-type game on a larger scale with more limelight that will perhaps persuade people that we can do something other than" stick to the violent game as it is currently played.
While flag football will feel familiar to the home fans, cricket will be a steep learning curve. Hugely popular in, among other places, India, Britain and Australia, which hosts the Summer Games in Brisbane in 2032, it is virtually unknown in the United States. A game called Twenty20 — a shorter version of the original game — is proposed for the schedule in Los Angeles. Cricket was played once before at the Olympics — in Paris in 1900.
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