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Could football be an Olympic sport

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Obviously it will never happen but let’s throw this out as a hypothetical. You wouldn’t have any current NFL players on a roster, so no dream team. On the US team you would have players who couldn’t make it into the NFL and ex NFL players who got cut maybe some 1st rd busts like Johnny Manziel.

For countries maybe a couple in Europe, Japan, Australia, Canada, Hawaii could have it’s own team (a US a and b team).
 
You started a thread to answer your own question. It will never happen.
Just throwing it out there as a hypothetical coming up with the most realistic scenario if it ever were to happen. I don’t think the idea is all that far fetched.
 
Even if you had enough participating countries, how many games would you finish in 2 weeks? Without it being a ridiculous strain on athletes.
 
No…. The logistics of playing games with so many players/ coaches will never allow it to happen
 
The reason they’re doing 7-player rugby is because it’s logistically impossible to play games quickly enough if the teams are too big—too many injuries.
 
The real answer is no way. Americans are so far ahead of every country there could never be balance. It would end up being America smashing Canada 76-0 in the gold every year. Americas defense would out score every other country combined every year. I would love to see it though.
 
Just throwing it out there as a hypothetical coming up with the most realistic scenario if it ever were to happen. I don’t think the idea is all that far fetched.

It’s such a non-starter.

First, it’s not played around the world in any numbers. There‘s the CFL and some organized essentially amateur leagues scattered about, but the sport as we know it is played in one country. The US probably has the top 200 organized football teams on the planet.

But beyond that, there is no way the Olympics are adding a sport that requires dozens and dozens of players per team. Not a prayer.
 

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