Team USA flag football team should consider these 12 NFL stars ... but not Tom Brady
These NFL players should consider making a run at Team USA inclusion in order to earn the first football gold medal in Olympics history.
When it comes to trying out for Team USA ’s inaugural flag football team for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, most NFL players (current and otherwise) really need not bother – though they should probably send an early decision application if they can’t fight the urge. ( And this doesn’t mean you, Tom Brady . Or you, Kyle Juszczyk.
Or you, Von Miller. Or certainly you, Darrell Green . ) If you didn’t fully grasp that flag is a completely different animal than NFL football – and it sure seemed like a lot of the league’s stars didn’t this weekend – then you probably think putt-putt is something more than a distant cousin to golf.
That was patently obvious in the Fanatics Flag Football Classic , played Saturday, March 21 in L. A. , during which the present edition of the U.
S. flag team – comprised of players who have been dominating the sport internationally for years – thoroughly embarrassed two squads largely consisting of NFL, uh, counterparts. Team USA won the round-robin portion by an aggregate score of 82-30 before prevailing 24-14 in a more tightly contested championship game over Wildcats FFC, led by Joe Burrow and Jayden Daniels and coached by Kyle Shanahan (though he mostly seemed to be in a somewhat bemused observation mode by that point).
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