Sean Payton compares his flag football experience to the Wet Bandits
Broncos coach Sean Payton recently coached one of the teams of current and former NFL players (with a stray YouTuber or two) against the U. S. men's national flag football team.
It didn't go well for the non-flag players. “Well, that was humbling," Payton said Tuesday of the experience during the AFC coaches' breakfast. "You remember the Home Alone series, and Macaulay Culkin was inside [the house].
Macaulay Culkin was the international team, and I felt like [Kyle Shanahan and I] were the two guys outside getting hit in the head with the iron and tripping over the garden hose. It’s an entirely different game. " Payton was likely Harry, which would mean Shanahan was Marv.
"Listen, it was kind of cool to be around those guys," Payton said. "That was a big deal. I think when this first was announced, there was this feeling there would be 10 NFL players on [the 2028 U.
S. men's Olympic] roster, and I’ll be surprised if there’s one. I just think we have plenty of players that can acclimate, but it’s going to take a month or two.