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2. ‘It has skyrocketed’: How flag football established itself on ...

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   The American Flag Football League (AFFL), previously only an amateur tournament, is due to launch a professional league in spring 2025 with players earning $1,000 a week. Its first franchises, the ...

3. Flag football is having a moment, tackling equity and safety ...

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   Flag football, long a tradition in schoolyards and sandlots, is now an internationally recognized sport – coming to the Olympics in 2028. Coaches and players say it provides a safer alternative ...

4. U.S. national anthem kneeling protests - Wikipedia

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   "This has to do with respect for our country and respect for our flag," he said. [49] In the games immediately following Trump's statements, the protest gained broader participation when over 200 players sat or knelt during the anthem, others linked arms with their teammates or raised fists, and three teams chose to stay in the locker room for ...

5. Flag football - Wikipedia

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   Flag football is a variant of gridiron football (American football or Canadian football depending on location) where, instead of tackling players to the ground, the defensive team must remove a flag or flag belt from the ball carrier ("deflagging") to end a down. In flag football, contact is limited between players.

6. NFL increases its commitment to flag football, creating a new ...

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   The NFL has taken another step in its commitment to growing flag football. The league hired Stephanie Kwok to a newly created position of vice president, head of flag football. Kwok, an ...

7. Flag football at the Summer Olympics - Wikipedia

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   The 2028 Summer Olympics will introduce the sport of flag football for the first time. Two events, one for men and one for women, will be held. Flag football, a non-contact variant of American football in which players remove flags attached to the ball carrier instead of tackling them, was previously contested at the 2022 World Games and will be featured at the 2025 World Games.

8. American Flag Football League - Wikipedia

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   Its first official game was an exhibition played between Team Vick (led by former NFL quarterback Michael Vick) and Team Owens (led by former NFL wide receiver Terrell Owens) on June 27, 2017, [4] at PayPal Park in San Jose, California and was broadcast live on the league's website and rebroadcast on their official YouTube channel, [5] [6] The AFFL also had plans to have eight league-owned ...

9. Flag football among new sports being considered for ... - AOL

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   The Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee (LA28) has proposed five new sports for inclusion in the 2028 Games: flag football, baseball/softball, cricket, lacrosse and squash.