The NFL should vote today to allow active players to participate in football in the Olympic flag, but not everyone is on board.
The director general of packers, Brian Gutekunst, said that he was a supporter of the use of the Olympic Games to promote American football worldwide. But he doesn’t think it’s a good idea to risk NFL players injured.
“I think that overall (flag football at the East Olympic Games) a good thing,” Gutekunst told ESPN. “I would love if we Keep the NFL players. “”
Gutekunst quoted “the risk” of injury as the reason why he is not enthusiastic about NFL players at the Olympic Games.
Although the rate of injury in football of the flag is not as high as in tackle football, injuries occur in the flag matches. And if an NFL star is injured in an Olympic football match, the team of this star will not be happy that she has lost a key player in a match that could draw international attention to football but does not mean anything to his team.
However, the owners of the NFL seem ready to risk it, and many NFL players seem eager to become Olympians. It seems that NFL players will be at the Olympic Games in the summer of 2028, their teams crossing their fingers and hoping that they will appear at healthy training camp.
