American Rules Football as Olympic Sport

[TRZA]

I think the US National American Football team was coached by Dan Hawkins and Cody Hawkins was the quarterback at a tournament a few years back. The team still won every game by a huge margin.

[marothisu]

I think it could be doable, There are enough countries that have 'pro' leagues of American rules football now. US could use amateur athletes in it.
Main problem would be frequency of games. Probably would only be able to take 8 or so team to the actual olympics.

Maybe in 50 years. Canada is the next best country at football probably and they aren't even close to the level of the US in my opinion. Maybe some day, but I don't see it happening anytime soon.

Plus, wouldn't you have to play like a game every other day to determine gold for awhile? That would tire a ton of guys out.

[marothisu]

Rugby would be more likely.

This. Many countries play rugby and are good at it. The parity level is a million times closer than it is with football.

[Al_4_State]

I think it would be extremely entertaining to watch nations other than the US play American rules football.

I assume Canada would probably be the best country after us.

[rebecacy]

this is silly.

this

[marothisu]

I assume Canada would probably be the best country after us.

They have a few decent players, but they'd be demolished by our best players easily as a team. The best active canadian is probably Nate Burleson and he had a total of 3 TD catches last year. Next up is probably Kicker Shawn Suisham (sp?).

[rebecacy]

I think it would be extremely entertaining to watch nations other than the US play American rules football.

I assume Canada would probably be the best country after us.

When I lived in Europe my son went to an international high school that play american football. Most games were against the US military base high schools around Europe but each year they played an exhibition with the local Belgian American Football Club. These guys were in there 20 and 30s and the high school team always killed them.

Can't remember his name off hand but my son's varsity coach In Brussels was a former Chicago Bear

[WhatchaGonnaDo]

If this were to happen.

Average scores: USA ~70, other countries ~7

[Al_4_State]

I don't think any country would be even close to us, I just think Canada would probably beat the rest of them.

[KnappShack]

The rest of the world don't want none

[TigerCyJM]

I think it would be extremely entertaining to watch nations other than the US play American rules football.

I assume Canada would probably be the best country after us.

Yeah IIRC Drakes football team beat the Mexican national team so they cant be too good.

China would have some sort of mega-team with 300+ members i am sure

[Icky_Mettle]

I never knew this existed.

IFAF World Championship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[CYme]

Yeah IIRC Drakes football team beat the Mexican national team so they cant be too good.

China would have some sort of mega-team with 300+ members i am sure

China would have line changes like in hockey for the whole football team. Still would get smacked around by the state 8-man team.

[HFCS]

Yeah IIRC Drakes football team beat the Mexican national team so they cant be too good.

China would have some sort of mega-team with 300+ members i am sure

Actually, if the drop off from #2 Canada to #3 was significant China would probably sink resources into it to pick up a bronze...which would lead to some Yao Ming like physical freak coming to the NFL someday ;-)