The NFL seems to be making a big push to include NFL players in the Olympic Flag Football competition and DP wonders exactly why the NFL is so invested in this enterprise. Unless there are a bunch of NFL level players secretly scattered around the world, it doesn’t seem like it would be very competitive. He thinks we should just let the guys who built the sport from the ground up carry the flag (literally and figuratively) for our country.
Dan Patrick: “We don’t need NFL players in the Olympics playing flag football. Now, if you said every country had an NFL quarterback playing for them, OK, I’m interested. Other than that, I couldn’t care less about this. But man, is this an initiative for the NFL! You get to try out for the Olympics with flag football. I would rather let the flag football players play. This is what they do, this is what they developed, this should be them playing and showcasing the sport!”