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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.
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.
A pair of officials at a Maryland high school football game in September 2008. White knickers used to be worn by officials; black trousers are now standard.. For ease of recognition, officials are usually clad in a black-and-white vertically striped shirt and black trousers with a thin white stripe down the side (this was formerly white knickers with black/white striped stirrup stockings or ...
The 2024 IFAF Men's Flag Football World Championships was the 11th World Championships in men's flag football. The tournament took place in Lahti , Finland, August 27-30, 2024. The United States capture their fifth consecutive and overall sixth titles, after they defeated Austria 53–21 in the gold-medal game.
The holder is usually positioned 7–8 yards from the line of scrimmage and holds the ball for the placekicker to kick. The player occupying this position is often a backup quarterback or a punter because of their "good hands", feel for the ball, and experience taking snaps from a long snapper or center during plays from scrimmage.
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 ...
It was a summer sneak peek as Washington hosted a 12-school 7-on-7 camp with mini-games pitting offensive and defensive skill players against each other and an intensive bigs camp for linemen.
The specific rules of flag football vary widely by the league, though all share in common their replication of the rules of traditional American football with tackling replaced by flag-pulling. Flag football will be an Olympic sport at the 2028 Summer Olympics. Sprint football (or lightweight football) is a variant of American football with ...