{"id":606512,"date":"2026-04-15T21:02:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/606512\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T21:02:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:02:18","slug":"arizona-cardinals-launching-junior-cardinals-flag-football-league-in-calgary-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/606512\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Cardinals launching Junior Cardinals Flag Football League in Calgary | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776286938_723_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Arizona Cardinals helmets sit on the sidelines during an NFL football game against the Indianapolis Colts, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025, in Indianapolis. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/AP-Zach Bolinger<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tApr 15, 2026 | 11:55 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Arizona Cardinals are launching the Junior Cardinals Flag Football League in Calgary. <\/p>\n<p>The NFL team made the announcement Wednesday. Games are slated to begin Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The launch comes with the Canadian men\u2019s and women\u2019s flag football teams looking to qualify for the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Games, where flag football will make its Olympic debut.<\/p>\n<p>This will mark the first time an NFL team has invested directly into a Canadian youth flag football league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arizona Cardinals helmets sit on the sidelines during an NFL football game against the Indianapolis Colts, Sunday, Oct.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[879,49,2798,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-606512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}