{"id":508186,"date":"2026-02-27T19:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/508186\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T19:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:53:07","slug":"nfl-commissioner-roger-goodell-pushes-for-flag-football-in-2032-brisbane-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/508186\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell pushes for flag football in 2032 Brisbane Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell declared that he wants flag football \u201cto be included in the 2032 Brisbane Olympic Games,\u201d according to David Riccio of the Melbourne HERALD-SUN. Goodell \u201cis passionate\u201d about flag football\u2019s debut at the 2028 L.A. Games, where men\u2019s and women\u2019s competitions will be featured at the Olympics for the first time. The sports chosen for the Brisbane Olympics will be determined later this year, and Goodell \u201cis adamant\u201d that flag football needs to be part of it. Goodell said, \u201cI think the LA (Games) is a great start, we\u2019re already seeing tremendous interest in playing the game, both for men and women.\u201d He added, \u201cAnd I think it\u2019s going to be a great thing at \u201932 in Brisbane, we hope\u201d (Melbourne HERALD-SUN, 2\/26<\/a>). <\/p>\n

MOVING FORWARD: Goodell appeared at an event at SoFi Stadium with Australian tourism officials and reps from the powerful Australian Olympic movement. The official reason was to promote the turn of the Olympics calendar away from the Winter Games toward LA28 and the Brisbane 2032 Summer Olympics. On Tuesday, the Rams will send two players to Australia as part of a promotional push coinciding with the Australian Grand Prix. Rams RB Kyren Williams and OL Kevin Dotson and some team officials will be in Melbourne from Tuesday through the F1 race March 8. They will appear at a GM\/Cadillac sponsor event, conduct Nike youth clinics and school visits with 400 children and meet Australian media and develop content to share their trip with fans back home (Ben Fischer, SBJ<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell declared that he wants flag football \u201cto be included in the 2032 Brisbane Olympic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,47129,593,85],"class_list":["post-508186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-ioc","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}