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Tom Brady’s Flag Football Showcase Is Already Outshining NFL Pro Bowl

Tom Brady’s star-studded flag football game could be a preview of the 2028 Olympics—and expose flaws in the Pro Bowl....

The NFL wants flag football in the Olympics

NFL behind push to make flag football an Olympic sport

Intramural teams around the country, you’d better start training! The NFL has just joined the effort to get flag football officially recognized as an Olympic sport for the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles....

How flag football is supposed to help the NFL grow

The NFL has been trying to expand its appeal overseas for decades. They’ve had several games hosted in London. They’re set to have a game in Germany next season. A few years ago, they even partnered with Pro Football Focus, a football data analytics company that was founded in the UK. Still, they ha...

“If parents feel like the only option is tackle [football], then there’s a danger that a whole generation of kids may never be introduced to the game,” says Drew Brees, who co-founded a national youth flag football league. Here’s an interesting look at the rise of flag football, and the attention an...

Kirk Cousins Shoves Volunteer Official At Charity Flag Football Game [Update]

We’ve illustrated Kirk Cousins’s legendary competitiveness a few times, but the Washington QB may have taken it a bit far today at a charity flag football game when he got very angry and shoved a volunteer official....

FSU's Flag Football Sorority Phenom Now Has A Highlight Reel

The world of Florida State flag football was turned upside-down by Delta Gamma’s Michelle Roque last year, and the sorority sister came back for more this season. Roque’s 2015 montage has dazzling jukes, impressive scrambling abilities, and a few other miscellaneous highlights. Does it also feature ...

FSU Sorority Girl Burns Everyone On Flag Football Touchdown

Delta Gamma's Michelle Roque channeled her inner LaDainian Tomlinson and toasted four defenders in a flag football game at Florida State. As a former flag football ref (for one semester), I can determine she did not use her hands to prevent any defender from grabbing one of her flags, so her moves a...

Youth Flag Football Admin Claims Commish Spent League Fees On "Pussy"

Below you'll find an email from one of the administrators of an Atlanta-area youth flag football league sponsored by the NFL. Sent to a number of league parents, it contains a whole host of bizarre accusations against the commissioner. One of those parents shared it with us. Now we share it with you...

Frat Bro's Amazing Pregame Speech Gets The <em>Any Given Sunday</em> Treatment

Yesterday, we brought you a video clip of one of the frattiest bros we've ever seen firing up his brothers with a passionate and profane speech before a flag football game. Today, we bring you the work of reader Kevin, who is a hero. Kevin decided to take the music from the end of Al Pacino's famou...

Frat Bro Gives Pregame Speech For The Ages Before Flag Football Game

Have you ever been just so, so amped about something? Well, you've never been as amped about anything as this Drexel frat bro is about flag football. Because flag football isn't just about hanging out with your buddies, it's about fucking legacies. ...

Purdue Intramural Quarterback Throws 30-Yard Touchdown Pass ... Behind His Back

If you're going to attempt a pass like that, there's no better time to try than when you're quarterbacking a flag football game in college, when you can always count on the defense to just sort of stand around and watch. That said, I'll bet Curtis Painter couldn't make that throw....

LeBron James Mimics Stevie Johnson Mimicking Plaxico Burress In Flag Football TD Celebration

LeBron James and Kevin Durant played flag football at the University of Akron last night for "LeBron's Flag Football Classic." There are plenty of highlights available on the YouTubes, if you're interested, but since we no longer have to pretend to entertain the question of LeBron playing football...

When You Invite Kevin Durant To Play Intramural Flag Football, He Might Just Show Up

What happened last night at Oklahoma State is a spiritual cousin to Nyjer Morgan being told on Twitter to go fly a kite, then doing it. Only less mentally imbalanced....

Surly Flag Football Coach Needs Team To Learn How To "Grab A Fucking Flag And Pull It Off." STAT

I can't get enough of the unhinged fuckery that exists in adult recreational sports. Like this flag football coach, who has had it with his team's uninspired performances right before the playoffs. That can't happen if you play for this coach (of flag football) if you want to be champions (of flag ...

Let The National Shaming Of This Flag Football Coach Commence

With the other team on a clear path to the end zone, Bennett Wyche — last season's Flag Football Coach of the Year — reached out from the sidelines to grab an opponents flag. [South Florida Sun-Sentinel]...

The National Anthem? Josh Howard 'Doesn't Celebrate That S***'

Mark Cuban may want to huddle up with Josh Howard at some point and explain the implications of talking on camera in the YouTube generation. The scene is the Allen Iverson Celebrity Summer Classic flag football game this past July, featuring all of your favorite celebrities; DeAngelo Hall, Larry Joh...

The Extremely Serious Flag Football Team

Everybody has a great "Rec league opponent who takes the game WAY too seriously" story unless, of course, you are that rec league opponent who takes the game way too seriously, in which case, we're sorry, we'll try harder, we need to focus, yeah, you were open on that play, we know....