A vote on the advisability of allowing NFL players to participate in Football Drapeau at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games is expected to pass at the Tuesday League meeting in Minneapolis, sources told Adam Schefter in ESPN.
The resolution must be approved by at least 24 of the 32 team owners. The League will then have to negotiate with the NFL Players Association, the Olympic officials and the national guidelines on the details of the participation of the NFL players.
The resolution of the participation in Olympic football in the flag is one of the multiple articles that should be voted this week. The owners will also vote on the proposal of the Green Bay packers to ban the controversial game of Tash push and the proposal of the Lions of Detroit from re -setting the eliminatory teams according to the regular season record, but sources declared to Schefter that these votes are expected until Wednesday.
Although the fate of the resolutions of re -embellishment of the thrust and the playoffs remained uncertain on Tuesday morning, a source said to Schefter that passing the resolution on participation in Olympic Flag Football “should be easy”.
The resolution of the flag football establishes rules and a basic structure on how the NFL hopes to see the process process, subject to negotiations with the NFLPA and the Olympic Games. They include:
• Permission to any player under NFL contract to participate in the tests
• A limit of a NFL team player in each participating national team
• In addition, allow an international player designated from a team to play for his country of origin
• A purchase of league insurance policies to provide protection against injuries to any injured player while participating in an authorized Football activity related to the Olympic Games
• A salary ceiling credit for any injured player
• A expectation that the Olympic football teams on the flag establish medical staff and field surfaces in accordance with minimum NFL standards
• A calendar that “does not unreasonably enter a league and club commitments of NFL players”.
The NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell ,, the owner of the Dallas cowboys, Jerry Jones, and other managers of the key league provided their support for participation in the Olympic Games during their last meetings in Palm Beach, Florida, last month.
The Los Angeles Summer Olympic Games are expected to take place from July 14, 2028 to July 30, 2028. NFL players are generally disabled during most of this period. At worst, participants in flag football would miss the start of the training camp.
Kevin Seifert d’Espn and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
