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Post by steelersfan4life56 on Feb 11, 2014 14:26:39 GMT -5
Baseball would be in the summer of course. As for football played in the winter, like I said so it wouldn't interfere with the NFL season and other leagues. Also football is a more fall to winter sport than it is a summer sport, the summer is mostly training, OTAs, and training camp. Also there wouldn't be much of a problem playing in a dome or just playing outdoors as long as the conditions are not too harsh. And as I said it's not like NFL players would be participating. The best possible players likely would be the 5th and later round picks trying to get some glory and improve their draft stock, as well as NFL free agent cast offs, but a good bit of the team would likely be made up of semi-pro players in some of the knock off football leagues. So there would at lest be some sort of competition until the other countries catch up. It's not like other countries simply wouldn't have the players, not everyone can make those rugby teams so Olympic football wouldn't be so bad to fall back on until it gains popularity  . That being said would professional rugby players actually player in the next summer Olympics or would it be the same issue of not wanting to get injured? I'd say that even if you were using college back-ups, you would still be by far the dominant team. No country in the world could ever match the scale of American football. But I did just find this article from Fox Sports ( msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/american-football-provisional-recognition-international-olympic-committee-possible-medal-sport-2024-121013) that talks about the potential addition of American football in the olympics by 2024 at the earliest. It would be a summer olympics event (hockey has to interrupt it's season to comply with the winter olympics timing) and it would likely not be 11v11. The article states that it would more than likely be a 7v7 variety that some high schools use, and there would have to be both a men's and women's event, because that is how the olympics work. There are also other varieties of football, like flag or beach that are also recognized by the olympic board that could possible be considered. Do.. Do they have women's rugby? Anyways.. 7v7.. flag football? Puke.. Why can't they just play 11v11 Probowl style but with some actual competition involved and then have flag football for womens football, or tackle. What ever works. If they can't get football into the Olympics then the idea of having stable teams, divisions, and leagues over seas is shot. The best they could hope for would be expanding the NFL into Canada and Mexico. P.S. Limas Sweed signed with the RedBlacks |
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Post by saskabronco on Feb 11, 2014 16:51:13 GMT -5
Do.. Do they have women's rugby? Anyways.. 7v7.. flag football? Puke.. Why can't they just play 11v11 Probowl style but with some actual competition involved and then have flag football for womens football, or tackle. What ever works. If they can't get football into the Olympics then the idea of having stable teams, divisions, and leagues over seas is shot. The best they could hope for would be expanding the NFL into Canada and Mexico. P.S. Limas Sweed signed with the RedBlacks Don't you think it should be the other way around? Stabilize some interest over seas, then once other countries actually play the game at a remotely competitive level, they can start to work it into the olympics. You thought the superbowl this year was bad? If we had football in the olympics right now, it would be like watching the Seahawks playing against the Denver Bronco's waterboy's 12 year son's team. There would be 0 entertainment value in that. P.S. They can have him. He didn't want to play with us while he was here. Even if he does good with them, he wasn't worth keeping last year because he clearly lacked the desire to play. |
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Post by steelersfan4life56 on Feb 11, 2014 18:00:42 GMT -5
Do.. Do they have women's rugby? Anyways.. 7v7.. flag football? Puke.. Why can't they just play 11v11 Probowl style but with some actual competition involved and then have flag football for womens football, or tackle. What ever works. If they can't get football into the Olympics then the idea of having stable teams, divisions, and leagues over seas is shot. The best they could hope for would be expanding the NFL into Canada and Mexico. P.S. Limas Sweed signed with the RedBlacks Don't you think it should be the other way around? Stabilize some interest over seas, then once other countries actually play the game at a remotely competitive level, they can start to work it into the olympics. You thought the superbowl this year was bad? If we had football in the olympics right now, it would be like watching the Seahawks playing against the Denver Bronco's waterboy's 12 year son's team. There would be 0 entertainment value in that. P.S. They can have him. He didn't want to play with us while he was here. Even if he does good with them, he wasn't worth keeping last year because he clearly lacked the desire to play. I don't know what's wrong with the guy, he's not all there mentally. I seriously worry about the guy, hope he does well. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2014 18:09:32 GMT -5
Wow I just read this on face book
How about the fellow that screwed up the Olympic Sign in Russia... Found beaten and stabbed in his apartment... I guess you don't embarrass Mr.Putin and survive !!!!
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Post by steelersfan4life56 on Feb 11, 2014 18:10:52 GMT -5
Wow I just read this on face book How about the fellow that screwed up the Olympic Sign in Russia... Found beaten and stabbed in his apartment... I guess you don't embarrass Mr.Putin and survive !!!! I wonder how many hotel owners are going to be killed... The whole thing seemed half-assed |
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Post by saskabronco on Feb 11, 2014 18:11:40 GMT -5
Wow I just read this on face book How about the fellow that screwed up the Olympic Sign in Russia... Found beaten and stabbed in his apartment... I guess you don't embarrass Mr.Putin and survive !!!! Was that article from the Daily Currant? I saw that too, but that site is a spoof site, kind of like The Onion. I don't think the story is true. |
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Post by saskabronco on Feb 11, 2014 18:14:28 GMT -5
Don't you think it should be the other way around? Stabilize some interest over seas, then once other countries actually play the game at a remotely competitive level, they can start to work it into the olympics. You thought the superbowl this year was bad? If we had football in the olympics right now, it would be like watching the Seahawks playing against the Denver Bronco's waterboy's 12 year son's team. There would be 0 entertainment value in that. P.S. They can have him. He didn't want to play with us while he was here. Even if he does good with them, he wasn't worth keeping last year because he clearly lacked the desire to play. I don't know what's wrong with the guy, he's not all there mentally. I seriously worry about the guy, hope he does well. Yeah man he had all the talent in the world but he just doesn't seem to care. Maybe he just doesn't like football or something, but either way it's too bad the Steelers wasted a decent draft pick on him and it's too bad he didn't pan out for us. He would have been awesome in the NFL if he had the right attitude... imagine how he could have torn up the CFL... *sigh* |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2014 18:17:36 GMT -5
Wow I just read this on face book How about the fellow that screwed up the Olympic Sign in Russia... Found beaten and stabbed in his apartment... I guess you don't embarrass Mr.Putin and survive !!!! Was that article from the Daily Currant? I saw that too, but that site is a spoof site, kind of like The Onion. I don't think the story is true. I was just going to say that I didn't confirm it and the guy who posted it has been know to not be the most reliable. There was no article just that. |
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Post by steelersfan4life56 on Feb 11, 2014 18:18:29 GMT -5
I don't know what's wrong with the guy, he's not all there mentally. I seriously worry about the guy, hope he does well. Yeah man he had all the talent in the world but he just doesn't seem to care. Maybe he just doesn't like football or something, but either way it's too bad the Steelers wasted a decent draft pick on him and it's too bad he didn't pan out for us. He would have been awesome in the NFL if he had the right attitude... imagine how he could have torn up the CFL... *sigh* Not sure it's necessarily attitude, I think he might have mental issues. He wen through some depression in his time in Pittsburgh too.. |
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Post by saskabronco on Feb 11, 2014 18:18:54 GMT -5
Was that article from the Daily Currant? I saw that too, but that site is a spoof site, kind of like The Onion. I don't think the story is true. I was just going to say that I didn't confirm it and the guy who posted it has been know to not be the most reliable. There was no article just that. lol but given the way the olympics have been going and the way Russia is run, people are pretty quick to believe stories like that because they don't seem all that far-fetched. |
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