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Tyreek Hill is a five-time All-Pro, eight-time Pro Bowl selection and a Super Bowl champion. The speedy Miami Dolphins receiver likes the idea of also having an opportunity to pursue Olympic gold when the rapidly growing sport of flag football debuts in the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles, a sentiment shared by other NFL stars, including Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes. Hill, Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa and running back Raheem Mostert, Detroit Lions receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown and Jacksonville Jaguars tight end Evan Engram are among the players representing the AFC and NFC at the Pro Bowl Games,...

The 2023 Pro Bowl introduced a new format that eliminated the traditional tackle football all-star game that we’ve seen in years past. With players putting forth only a marginal effort and so many players opting out in the name of health and safety, the Pro Bowl simply hasn’t meant what it did in years past. The NFL’s attempt at fixing this event featured skills challenges for several major position groups on Thursday night, then capped things off Sunday with three flag football games coached by the Manning brothers and a few more skills competitions. Yesterday, Chris asked if you guys...

For most of my life, I’ve been a fan of the National Football League. It wasn’t until recent years that I turned away from the game as the emergence of the social justice league has made games unbearable and support for the league untenable. But even if I still watched professional football today, I would be dropping my fandom soon after hearing what the future of the NFL holds. As NBC Sports reports, Executive V.P. of football operations Troy Vincent envisions an “inclusive” league that is focused on FLAG FOOTBALL so it can go global and spread absolutely insane wokeness...

Friday Night LiesCapitalist PreservationForward– During a campaign stop in Athens, Ohio, on Saturday September 8, Vice President Joe Biden said the last time he was in the town, playing against the Ohio University football team on October 19, 1963, he almost got arrested for walking into a girls’ dormitory. It’s a good story. It’s just not true… at all. Shawn at Free Republic discovered that Joe Biden did not play football at the University of Delaware in 1961, 1962, 1963, or 1964, according to past yearbooks.The 1984 University of Delaware yearbook included an interview with Joe Biden. It’s Biden first...

Four people were shot Wednesday night at West Perrine Park after three men fired into a crowd of spectators at a flag football game, according to Miami-Dade police. About 7:30 p.m., a group of women were playing flag football at the park at Southwest 172nd Street and 103rd Avenue. At some point, a group of men among the spectators got into a dispute, police spokesman Detective Javier Baez said. Three of men shot into the crowd, their bullets striking three males in the lower extremities and a fourth in the shoulder, Baez said.

The 34-year-old principal of a local middle school collapsed and died Saturday during a game of flag football. Roger Slagle, principal of Sellman Middle School in Madeira, died from an undiagnosed heart problem, WLWT Eyewitness News 5 reported. Slagle worked in the district for nine years. He is survived by his wife and two daughters, ages 5 and 7. Slagle's wife is expecting the couple's third child in April, WLWT reported. Students at Sellman spent Sunday writing farewell messages and leaving flowers on the school's steps. "Everybody was crying because he was always there for us," student Christy Spink said....