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World World Bowl I World Bowl '91 champions. Larry Kennan. While there are women's football leagues in the U. The third issue is related to the Olympics' relatively compressed three-week length. Traditional rugby, which is quite brutal, couldn't be played every day; American football would face the same hurdle. And those are just the preliminary barriers, according to those who went through the process with rugby.
To progress to the Olympic level, the sport needs to be global. Softball, for example, came out of the games because it wasn't global. Golf, on the other hand, got in. But all the sports there are being played pretty much globally. American football is recognized globally as a sport, but it's not played globally. Teaching, coaching and playing traditional, on, full-contact American football is an expensive and involved process.
Globalizing the game isn't as simple as, say, putting up two hoops and handing a basketball to a group of kids. Recently, the NFL has tried to solve that challenge by exporting -- yup -- a modified version of its traditional game. Mexico's an example of its development -- we have over a million kids in Mexico participating.
We've gotten great support, we bring in sponsors, we hold a proper tournament every year. In Japan, it's one of five sports that kids can participate in at school. It's mandatory that schools have five sports, and flag football is one of them.
The idea, for now, is that flag football can be a gateway to the traditional game in these places around the world. That kind of creative approach might be necessary -- as it was with rugby -- to meet the Olympic challenge. Earlier this month, the U. It's true that the U. It's also possible that the other countries in the tournament took the event more seriously than the U.
But by any measure, the fact that an international team stood up to a big, bad U. However, there's still a sizable talent disparity.
There's no doubt that if American football were played at the Olympics, the U. How does the rest of the world stack up? For now, Canada, Mexico and Japan are on the second tier internationally, according to Wiking, Parsons and Hallenbeck.
The next level, from a playing standpoint, includes some combination of Germany, Austria and France, depending on who you talk to. No one's arguing that those countries are anywhere close to truly matching the U. But Wiking says that gap might not be quite as enormous as one might assume. We have guys in Germany where, if they started playing here and went to college, they'd make it. The problem is, if they don't go to college in the U. The problem, Wiking explains, isn't just stateside.
In most other countries, athletes grow up playing sports in club systems run by national federations rather than playing at schools. The people who run the federations know that college coaches in the U.
So they aren't eager to export their players and risk losing them to a collegiate team. Basketball, baseball and hockey don't face these issues. Teenagers from around the world are allowed to enter those drafts, and it's common for U. Wiking optimistically projects that American football players in other countries are "six to eight years away" from competing with top college players in the U. Most team sports in the Olympics are developed enough internationally that around 12 countries, on average, are able to compete in them.
There's no question that far fewer than a dozen nations would be able to compete in American football. It is possible, according to Wiking, to gain acceptance with just eight countries at a competitive level, but football's far from that number, too. The first step, really, is to start seeing more international players in the NFL, like you see in basketball now, where it seems like every team has an international player or two.
The NFL and various American football federations share a very real interest in international growth. The NFL has given those federations access to its resources, along with permission to distribute NFL Films footage throughout the world. Johnson threw 26 passes, completing nine to his teammates and another three to the Patriots.
It was early in the second quarter, and those who stayed to the end were feted to a combined five turnovers and 16 penalties. New England Patriots 45, St. Louis Rams 7. Read at your peril: The Rams opened the scoring with a touchdown, but the Patriots edged them by rattling off 45 unanswered points. For the Rams, the loss was their third in a five-game winless streak. San Francisco 49ers 42, Jacksonville Jaguars Read at your peril: The 49ers scored more than a point a minute until midway through the second quarter, when they led Enough said.
Miami Dolphins 38, Oakland Raiders Read at your peril: The Raiders were winless at the time, committed four turnovers, and finished the year The Dolphins were impressive on this day but finished the year Kansas City Chiefs 45, Detroit Lions Read at your peril: The Lions were entering this game and never competed. The Chiefs led at halftime, sacked Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford six times, and finished with rushing yards even though starter Jamaal Charles was sidelined.
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