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NFL To Launch Professional Flag Football Leagues Ahead Of 2028 Los Angeles Olympics
['Mark Young']
South Florida Reporter
LONDON (AP) — The NFL plans to launch women’s and men’s professional flag football leagues “in the next couple of years,” Commissioner Roger Goodell said Thursday.
The timeline outlined by Goodell at a sports conference in London would see the leagues created ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, which will feature flag football for the first time.
“We’re committed to creating a women’s professional league, and a men’s professional flag league.
The league has prioritized flag football as a way to attract young fans, both male and female.
“If you set that structure up where there’s youth leagues, going into high school, into college and then professional, I think you can develop a system of scale.