http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...l-given-provisional-ioc-recognition?hpt=hp_t3 Evidently, American Football may become an Olympic sport. If this happens, can you guys imagine the annihilation of the other countries who even try to face the USA? This would be even less competitive that International Basketball.
That competition's gonna be a massive bottleneck for silver for generations. What's the point of adding a sport that one nation dominates so completely, to the almost utter disinterest of the rest of the world?
It sounds like a desperate move on the NFL's part. The NFL will never compete with soccer globally. It's not gonna happen.
What sense does it make to say that baseball and softball are played by too few countries to continue as an Olympic sport, and then promote football?
There's apparently already a world cup for Gridiron football. As I understand it the US team is only allowed to use college players who weren't drafted immediately after their college careers finished.
And even more bizarrely, Japan came very closing to beating the USA in the previous edition and lost in double OT. (It uses college OT rules).
That's because the US national team is run by the US amateur football federation - so neither professional players (of any level) nor current college players are members there.