No. Try convincing NFL players to play in a tournament and risk their future for a gold medal. Not going to happen. And I don't see the owners allowing their property to risk injury and their SB chances simply to add another medal to the totals.
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What country could possibly compete with them if miracles come true?
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Goodell is just getting his "look at us" swag on. The more people talk about the NFL, the better in his book.
No one outside of the US even plays football, it's a joke as a global game. It will never happen. Goodell just wants people to talk about the NFL. Bring Baseball back, though.
Yeah bring baseball back. And lets say, country X(not US) has this great QB, so what? What are possibilities that this same country would have a good enough O-line and/or defense to even compete with the US other than maybe Canada? This sounds like a free gold medal for the US.
At first I was okay with baseball and softball being kicked out but now that I know horse dancing and powerwalking are olympic events they should definitely be in.
At first I was okay with baseball and softball being kicked out but now that I know horse dancing and powerwalking are olympic events they should definitely be in.JML897
No. Try convincing NFL players to play in a tournament and risk their future for a gold medal. Not going to happen. And I don't see the owners allowing their property to risk injury and their SB chances simply to add another medal to the totals.
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What country could possibly compete with them if miracles come true?
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Goodell is just getting his "look at us" swag on. The more people talk about the NFL, the better in his book.
Namgis
Agreed....and just as others have said...there arent enough countries bisides the US and Canada that have a real interest in football. But if Russian athletes decided to start training for American football I'd be seriously worried!!!! lol
No one outside of the US even plays football, it's a joke as a global game. It will never happen. Goodell just wants people to talk about the NFL. Bring Baseball back, though.-Halftime-
Baseball and women's softball need to be added back.
[QUOTE="ChikaraShref"]they'd just have to use college players or something. i don't see most nfl players willing to take the risk. PSP107
Why would college players risk it? Atleast NFL players are already paid. to increase their draft value. plus itd give the other countries a little bit of a chance at least.
[QUOTE="PSP107"][QUOTE="ChikaraShref"]they'd just have to use college players or something. i don't see most nfl players willing to take the risk. ChikaraShref
Why would college players risk it? Atleast NFL players are already paid. to increase their draft value. plus itd give the other countries a little bit of a chance at least. They could get hurt. And a bunch of 19-22 yr olds will still dominate.
[QUOTE="ChikaraShref"][QUOTE="PSP107"] Why would college players risk it? Atleast NFL players are already paid.PSP107
to increase their draft value. plus itd give the other countries a little bit of a chance at least. They could get hurt. And a bunch of 19-22 yr olds will still dominate. They already do. Just last year at the IFAF World Championship America beat Canada by 40+ points.
[QUOTE="ChikaraShref"][QUOTE="PSP107"] Why would college players risk it? Atleast NFL players are already paid.PSP107
to increase their draft value. plus itd give the other countries a little bit of a chance at least. They could get hurt. And a bunch of 19-22 yr olds will still dominate. so could nba or nhl players, but they still do it
[QUOTE="PSP107"][QUOTE="ChikaraShref"] to increase their draft value. plus itd give the other countries a little bit of a chance at least.ChikaraShref
They could get hurt. And a bunch of 19-22 yr olds will still dominate. so could nba or nhl players, but they still do it The difference is, the whole world plays basketball and hockey. Name a country besides the US, Canada, or Samoa that is big on American Football. it'd be a 3 team tournament. It's stupid.
[QUOTE="-Halftime-"][QUOTE="ChikaraShref"][QUOTE="PSP107"] They could get hurt. And a bunch of 19-22 yr olds will still dominate. so could nba or nhl players, but they still do it The difference is, the whole world plays basketball and hockey. Name a country besides the US, Canada, or Samoa that is big on American Football. it'd be a 3 team tournament. It's stupid. i know there's not a lot right now, but i do think it'll start catching on a little more. That said, Australia Belgium Brazil Finland Germany Hungary India Israel Italy Japan Mexico New Zealand Norway Poland Serbia Spain UK It still has a long way to go, but its a start.
[QUOTE="-Halftime-"][QUOTE="ChikaraShref"] so could nba or nhl players, but they still do itChikaraShref
The difference is, the whole world plays basketball and hockey. Name a country besides the US, Canada, or Samoa that is big on American Football. it'd be a 3 team tournament. It's stupid. i know there's not a lot right now, but i do think it'll start catching on a little more. That said, Australia Belgium Brazil Finland Germany Hungary India Israel Italy Japan Mexico New Zealand Norway Poland Serbia Spain UK It still has a long way to go, but its a start. Are just naming countries? because they don't care about american football.
[QUOTE="ChikaraShref"][QUOTE="-Halftime-"] The difference is, the whole world plays basketball and hockey. Name a country besides the US, Canada, or Samoa that is big on American Football. it'd be a 3 team tournament. It's stupid.PSP107
i know there's not a lot right now, but i do think it'll start catching on a little more. That said, Australia Belgium Brazil Finland Germany Hungary India Israel Italy Japan Mexico New Zealand Norway Poland Serbia Spain UK It still has a long way to go, but its a start. Are just naming countries? because they don't care about american football. they're ones that have a national league
i know there's not a lot right now, but i do think it'll start catching on a little more. That said, Australia Belgium Brazil Finland Germany Hungary India Israel Italy Japan Mexico New Zealand Norway Poland Serbia Spain UK It still has a long way to go, but its a start.ChikaraShref
Are just naming countries? because they don't care about american football. they're ones that have a national league American football leagues outside of America and Canada?
[QUOTE="ChikaraShref"][QUOTE="PSP107"] Are just naming countries? because they don't care about american football.PSP107
they're ones that have a national league American football leagues outside of America and Canada? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football#Exportation_by_the_established_U.S._leagues_and_organizations Scroll down near the bottom, it describes the leagues found outside of America.
[QUOTE="PSP107"][QUOTE="ChikaraShref"] to increase their draft value. plus itd give the other countries a little bit of a chance at least.ChikaraShref
They could get hurt. And a bunch of 19-22 yr olds will still dominate. so could nba or nhl players, but they still do it Which sport has worse injuries? This is common sense man.
[QUOTE="Chutebox"][QUOTE="ChikaraShref"][QUOTE="PSP107"] They could get hurt. And a bunch of 19-22 yr olds will still dominate. so could nba or nhl players, but they still do it Which sport has worse injuries? This is common sense man. nhl gets a lot of bad injuries. and i'm surprised no one brought up the obvious. football is a weekly sport. even if you start well before the olympics beging, you really can't do it anywhere near the format. itd be like if they were to do mma.
[QUOTE="ChikaraShref"][QUOTE="Chutebox"][QUOTE="ChikaraShref"] so could nba or nhl players, but they still do it Which sport has worse injuries? This is common sense man. nhl gets a lot of bad injuries. and i'm surprised no one brought up the obvious. football is a weekly sport. even if you start well before the olympics beging, you really can't do it anywhere near the format. itd be like if they were to do mma. It does, but not like NFL or at that frequency. And yes, the weekly thing too.
No, bad idea for so many reasons, Super Bowl trumps Olympic Gold, not enough participating countries, and not every nation plays football with the exact same rules, for example, in Canada, the field is longer and wider.
No, bad idea for so many reasons, Super Bowl trumps Olympic Gold, not enough participating countries, and not every nation plays football with the exact same rules, for example, in Canada, the field is longer and wider.juden41
International Basketball has some diffrent rules from American style Basketball.
Fun fact: football DID appear in the Olympics, back in 1932. It was just a demo sport (no medals), they only played one game, and both teams were from the U.S.
Don't think it will ever happen. I'm 43 and still play in the UK amateur league and most if not all European countries have both youth and adult kitted plus flag leagues. Europe even has National team and club international compertitions.
No one outside of the US even plays football, it's a joke as a global game. It will never happen. Goodell just wants people to talk about the NFL. Bring Baseball back, though.-Halftime-
We have a league and Britbowl, although its nowhere near the same calibur as the teams in the states, it still has a decent following here.Just wish more people in the UK would take notice, once im off my current shift pattern im gonna try out for Edinburgh if they are doing try-outs next series.
Its a lot more grassroots, but im sure that the UK could possibly field a team, same with Germany as im pretty sure they have a fairly good following not to mention their teams dominated NFL-E back in the day.
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