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Children playing the sport in Mexico Player at the point of taking other player's flag at a game at Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico City. The specific rules of flag football vary widely by league, though all share in common their replication of the rules of traditional American football with tackling replaced by flag-pulling.
The 2028 Summer Olympics will introduce the sport of flag football for the first time. Two events, one for men and one for women, will be held. Flag football, a non-contact variant of American football in which players remove flags attached to the ball carrier instead of tackling them, was previously contested at the 2022 World Games and will be featured at the 2025 World Games.
The American Flag Football League is a semi-professional flag football league started in 2017. The league was founded by Jeff Lewis in May 2017, and played a tournament-style schedule every summer. The league was founded by Jeff Lewis in May 2017, and played a tournament-style schedule every summer.
The American Flag Football League (AFFL), previously only an amateur tournament, is due to launch a professional league in spring 2025 with players earning $1,000 a week. Its first franchises, the ...
As such community showings of support grow for girls’ flag football — Oak Park High holding an interest meeting March 29 that drew dozens, coaching hires becoming official at schools around ...
Until the National Federation of State High School Assns. (NFHS) creates a guide, the CIF will use rules for girls’ flag football provided by the National Intramural and Recreational Sports Assn ...
In the United States and Canada, powderpuffs are football games (ice hockey games in Canada) which include flag football or touch football games between girls from senior classes or cross-town school rivals. If tickets are required to enter and concessions are offered, sales typically go to charity, the senior class, or to a dance.
IWFFA adapted its rules from the National Women's Flag Football League (1995) which have been modified from time to time, to incorporate as many flag football skills as possible so that any girl or woman can find a role on the team and contribute in a meaningful way.