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FL players will be going for gold in the summer of 2028.
NFL owners passed a resolution, 32-0, on Tuesday at the Spring League Meeting that will allow league players to try out to participate in flag football during the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
A maximum of one player from each team will be allowed to participate and each club’s designated international player is also permitted to take part for his country.
“I think this news represents a great opportunity for the sport, for the NFL,” Commissioner Roger Goodell told reporters Tuesday after the announcement. “It’s truly the next step in making NFL football and football a global sport for men and women of all ages and all opportunities across the globe. We think that’s the right thing to do, and this is a big step in accomplishing that.”
Rosters of 10 players will be chosen by each country’s Olympic committee.
“We are now on a global stage, which is exciting,” NFL executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent said. “We can truly bring America’s greatest game on the global stage.”
Following the ratification of the resolution, the league management council can now move forward negotiating arrangements with the NFL Players Association, national governing bodies and Olympic authorities. Rosters will be chosen by each country’s National Olympic Committee.
It’s a decision that was anticipated since the International Olympic Committee voted in October 2023 to add flag football to the ’28 Summer Olympics for the first time in the Games’ history.
Not long after, the NFL announced it would begin working with the NFLPA to allow current and former players to potentially compete in the Olympics. Since then, a fervor has grown in the hopes of the NFL possibly building its own “Dream Team.”
