Roger Goodell: "Football Should Absolutely Be An Olympic Sport"

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So what NFL/NCAA team is gonna allow their players to do this?

And how will they set up a tourney of some sort to be played out in 2 weeks in the sport of football, especially when teams are in training camp during the Olympics?
 

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They would need to stop calling it football first of all. Football is soccer to everyone outside of the US.

Futbol de Norte Americano? :heh:

As a kid I asked my Dad why they didn't have football in the Olympics. He gave me the :childplease: and as a grown ass man I fully understand why. Football doesn't lend itself to the Olympics at all. Injuries are too common and impossible to avoid. Unless they take out the hitting or all of the teams go the pro bowl route it's not feasible. If they do those things it isn't football so what would be the point? Beyond that how many games are you gonna play? You would only be able to fit 3 games max into the Olympics so how do you work that out? Some things just aren't meant to be and football in the Olympics is one of the. :snoop: at Emporer Roger.
 

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It's not too much of a stretch, there's already a small international tourney that goes on every year.

2012-IFAF-Under-19-World-Championship.jpg
 

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It's not too much of a stretch, there's already a small international tourney that goes on every year.

2012-IFAF-Under-19-World-Championship.jpg

:gladbron:

won by Canada????

daamn

first the Canadians beat the brits at soccer then beating the americans at football??


wtf?
 
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Hell no.

And I may be in the minority, but I don't think sports like basketball and soccer should be Olympic sports either.
 
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will never happen, but if it did they'd have to shorten them shyts to like 30 or even 15 minute games to even make it feasible to have a tournament.
 

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Hell no.

And I may be in the minority, but I don't think sports like basketball and soccer should be Olympic sports either.

why not?

Basketball and Soccer have been so important to the Olympics for the longest time. They fit perfectly with the Olympic format.
 

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:what:

Outside of the US and Canada, no other country plays football on a serious level. what is Goodell talkin' about?
 

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:what:

Outside of the US and Canada, no other country plays football on a serious level. what is Goodell talkin' about?

he's a delusional American trying to force gridiron on the rest of the world in order to compete with the beautiful game
 
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