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Please no.

No.

>Banned from swimming due to doping
>Makes comeback for women's football

What position would she play?

It's not going to happen.

7-on-7 flag football would work for the Olympics from amateur intramural teams.
11-on-11 not going to happen. High school, college and NFL teams spend all summer practicing and working on their playbook for the season and they aren't going to fuck their season up for the Olympics. Not to mention injuries

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This will never happen especially with brain damage being a legitimate concern.

shit tier "sport"

I'd be down to watch flag foot all, but there would be a ton of countries besides the US interested in an international football competition, and no shortage of Americans interested in playing. Considering all the "good" football players wouldn't partake it might actually be a pretty good competition. They already do a football world cup if I'm not mistaken.

>one step closer to gladiators
Yes

Ninja warrior. Now that would be a sport for Tokyo 2020

>human chess is bad

Spot the low test

The US team would literally kill people on the field. People would actually die playing against the Americans.

What countries would have a team?
>USA obviously
>Canada
>Germany
>Britain (?)
>Australia

I don't think it's popular enough to warrant being in the Olympics, unfortunately.

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we could send a D-3 team and still win we don't need to worry about fucking over things that actually matter.

This. Olympics sports have to be internationally popular, and American football isn't outside of the US. It's not got much of a women's game either, which is pretty important. It doesn't help that the sport would probably be dominated by the one country where it's seriously played and they have infrastructure for it in every school. These are the sorts of reasons that led to rugby being included instead, as it's a much better fit for all those criteria (and a better sport, but let's not get into that).

Golf got included over squash last time around because the IOC was lured by the prospect of valuable television rights and high profile players, but after most of them didn't show, its future as an olympic sport is majorly in doubt. International viewing figures are why football remains in the olympics, despite all of the world's best players not being there. Baseball and softball might get put back in for Tokyo, as they're hella popular in Japan, but could get dropped again thereafter. The IOC is also obsessed with da yoof in order to stay relevant, so they're seriously considering things like skateboarding because they think that's what young people are interested in.

Mexico. (Apparently there are """"""""""""""""""""""""""""fans""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" down there)

Dozens of universities (both public and private) have American football teams, so it's not only bandwagoners only

Olympics doesn't last long enough to accomodate a tournament also WADA compliance.

Nobody care about this shitty ass sport. Get over it.

Wow your retarded and fat if you think this would happen, your the only country that has an actual proper league much like basketball but you still fucking fap when you win gold in that, it's a joke really I can just imagine a living room of your fucking interbred apes chanting, U . S . A, watching pros playing ametuers.

>americans actually discussing it like it could happen
Go be fat somewhere else

And they already have a team. They're called the Cowboys.

Who could they even play against?

Darts will get in first

Japan plays a lot of American football, I know Sweden's pro league is pretty decent so I'm sure the other Scandinavian countries play. I know in Brazil it is getting more popular as well as in China and I'm sure Mexico could field a decent team. I know there's clubs in Russia too.

Don't forget the Indian elite league

Fuck shut up you would crush them all there would be no competition i.e no point it would be like a football teams pre season, like Liverpool playing fucking Salford or some shit.

funny thing about the "world championships" is the US intentionally gimps itself by not allowing current D1 NCAA or NFL players to be on the team. they also need at least 1 player for every league other than those or some dumbass thing like that. so like even the lowest(shittest) division needs representation.

still beat Japan in the finals 59-12 last year.

another funny thing is it started in 1999 but the US didn't field a team until 2007.

I love NFL but it international pay just wouldn't be very entertaining. The only team that could ever hope to score on USA would be Canada, and they would crush everyone else. That's also ignoring the 100% injury rate of the game and assuming enough players would even consider fucking up their careers for what would amount to bullying a bunch of high school teams. And even then the olympics takes place during pre season when players are doing everything they can to be in top condition for the games they actually get paid to play.

>Olympics sports have to be internationally popular

clearly, they don't. there's a lot of shit that nobody even thinks about unless it's once every 4 years during the olympics.

it would be boring to watch the US crush everyone but I really want to see what fucked up lengths China would go to to try and compete for yet another medal opportunity.

>yfw the US has been defeated in international play
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFAF_International_Bowl

A sport where you can't play more than once per week would be amazing in the Olympics.

>implying Liverpool won't choke against Salford like they always do
I've already braced myself for the inevitable disappointment.

A sport doesn't have to be internationally popular to be in the Olympics, but it has to also be played by women. So as american football will never be played by women it never will be olympic.

Actually we do at the IFAF World Cup. Only they aren't active players for over a year.

The rest of the world are so far behind our level.

And that Japan is #2 and they still get BTFO after the second tourney that USA played on.

List of countries who could field teams:

USA
Canada
Samoa
Germany(?)
...

Forgetting Japan, they usually finish second in the IFAF World Cup.

Many first world countries can field teams in pretty much any sport desu

I should clarify - sports have to be internationally popular to get added to the olympics. The core 25 sports would usually have to suffer a major scandal or something similarly catastrophic in order to get dropped. Wrestling is an unusual case, in that they were due to drop the modern pentathlon, but the lobbyists managed to do a deal with some of the represenatives of other sports potentially on the chopping block to gang up on wrestling instead. The international body promoting wrestling was caught by surprise and hadn't sent a representative to the meeting in question because theyre had been no suggestion that they were up for the chop.

world bowl

any rugby playing nation would go alright

Netball would make more sense than yankee doodle meme ball (which would be shit without steroid abuse anyway)

I believe the IFAF is angling for American football to be included in the Winter Olympics, not Summer.

>American football
>Winter Olympics
Literally wat

In terms of power rankings and fielding teams it would be

>USA
>American Samoa
>Canada
>Japan
>Mexico
>Brazil
>Germany
>South Korea
>France
>Sweden
>Australia
>Spain
>Ireland
>Italy
>New Zealand

In terms of countries that 1. Have an abundance of professional players (USA, American Samoa, Canada)

2. have a rugby/ other football playing tradition that could be (relatively) easily converted (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland)

and 3. that have participated in international competitions in the past (all the others),

there seems to be enough to be in the Olympics, at least on a flag football level.

I think Nigeria has enough players or Americans with Nigerian ancestry to field a team

Netball has the problem that it isn't played by men.

>Winter Olympics

Crazy. Also, I just realised one of the biggest arguments against American football at the olympics - team size. What's a typical handegg team, 40-50 players? That's way too many athletes for a single event, they'd need to find a way to cut that to more like 15, perhaps even less.

The NFL is desperate for somekind of international seal of approval

They're literally running adds insinuating the league with the Olympics.

This would literally never happen. Baseball has a bigger chance of happening because it's played in different continents but Gridiron is only play in NA and predominantly in America. Its never going to happen.

>Competitive eating becomes an Olympic event.
>America gets btfo by some 50kg Nippon manlet.

that's a big ball