Football recieves provisional recognition from ioc

[Cheese]

American football has taken a step on the road to becoming an Olympic sport.
The International Federation of American Football (IFAF) received provisional recognition by the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday.
The recognition comes seven months after the IOC denied the IFAF's initial request for recognition.
NFL Vice President of International Operations Chris Parsons told Fox Sports' Alex Marvez in May that he believed IOC recognition would "generate incremental interest" in football worldwide.


http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=438667

Other sports to have received Olympic recognition include chess, auto racing and tug of war. LOL

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Cheese

American football has taken a step on the road to becoming an Olympic sport.
The International Federation of American Football (IFAF) received provisional recognition by the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday.
The recognition comes seven months after the IOC denied the IFAF's initial request for recognition.
NFL Vice President of International Operations Chris Parsons told Fox Sports' Alex Marvez in May that he believed IOC recognition would "generate incremental interest" in football worldwide.


http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=438667

Other sports to have received Olympic recognition include chess, auto racing and tug of war. LOL

When does female honey wrestling get the recognition it deserves?

[Senator Clay Davis]

I could see football working in the Olympics. All you have to do is have 5 American teams, 2 Canadian teams and 1 team made up of the rest of the world. Of course totally illegal in the Olympics, but so should football as a sport. Terrible idea, mostly driven by the NFL to try and convince more international fans who don't care that they should care (but won't). Its like trying to sell soccer to American fans, they just don't give a ####, they've shown you time and again they don't give a ####, so stop trying.

Edit: And Olympic style drug testing would ruin every NFL player who went into the Olympics. They'd all get banned for life. So absolutely no shot they play, making it even more pointless. NCAA players going? Whoop dee doo.

[Fire]

Will never happen. I'm hoping backwards running will finally get the recognition it deserves.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

Its like trying to sell soccer to American fans, they just don't give a ####, they've shown you time and again they don't give a ####, so stop trying.

Apparently someone forgot to tell Seattle, Portland, and LA.

[Cheerio]

How will this work? No Div 1 or pro players?

[Puppet Guy]

Originally Posted by Locke

When does female honey wrestling get the recognition it deserves?

If women's beach volleyball get to be an Olympic sport the IOC has to include foxy-boxing!

[zukes]

Shouldn't more than two countries be you know, good at something before it becomes an Olympic event? I can't see this working. On the plus side, guaranteed silver for Canada if it does.

[Joborule]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

Its like trying to sell soccer to American fans, they just don't give a ####, they've shown you time and again they don't give a ####, so stop trying.

Not according to the growth of interest. Soccer is actually a respected game down there now. Hosting the world cup did them huge.

[GirlySports]

Id like to see it. Eveyrything has to start somewhere.

Believe it or not. Japan has a decent team. They won the first two world cups 1999 and 2003.

Edit: Canada beat Japan 31-27 in 2011.

Mexico would probably be 4th best.

[trackercowe]

Eh, it still might be competitive than women's hockey and all those sports that predominately Asian countries dominate at.

[GirlySports]

Yup. Id like to see more team sports in the olympics than goofy individual sports.

Id like to see football, cricket and aussie rules

[Joborule]

I'm surprised cricket isn't an olympic sport yet. They have field hockey, but not that?

[Cheese]

tough to manage all of these sports in an Olympics seeing as they would require large stadiums to play Cricket, Football, Baseball, Field Hockey, etc etc.

[habernac]

Originally Posted by Puppet Guy

If women's beach volleyball get to be an Olympic sport the IOC has to include foxy-boxing!

we need more sports that have in their rules that they need to wear skimpy clothing. Come on, IOC. Make it so!!

[You Need a Thneed]

Football will never be in the Olympics, for various reasons.

- Not enough worldwide play
- cost of building stadiums to play in at the Olympics
- even with the limited number of countries that play now, it still wouldn't be competitive. USA would destroy everyone else for Gold, Canada would destroy everyone but the USA for Silver.
- Would NFL agree to let players go and potentially get injured? Would players want to go for the same reason?
- Which rules do you play? The top two countries play the game with significant differences in the rules. The game structure is similar, but there is a different amount of downs, a different size field, the goal posts are in a different place, the ball isn't the same size, a different amount of players on the field for each side, etc. Americans can't even agree on one set of rules to play with between the NFL and NCAA.

[getbak]

Rugby will get into the Olympics long before North American football does.

[shermanator]

Originally Posted by rubecube

Apparently someone forgot to tell Seattle, Portland, and LA.

and Kansas City, Salt Lake City, Philadelphia, Houston, New York....

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by Joborule

I'm surprised cricket isn't an olympic sport yet. They have field hockey, but not that?

Cricket is closer to being an insect than a sport. Pass!

[ricoFlame]

honestly, football shouldn't even be considered until potato sack and three-legged races are finally given a spot on the big stage with the men's 100m final.