American football in the Olympics?

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bentenn said:
Not many other countries care enough about football, we would dominate much worse than we do at basketball. I dobt see it happening.
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No kidding.

Would be scoring on both offense and defense. Force tons of turnovers. Starters would be pulled by halftime every game. Potential after the first quarter. People were impressed by the U.S. scoring 150 in basketball... U.S. would probably average 80+ points a game and if the country they play is bad enough(which there would be plenty of bad countries), probably could put up 150 in football.

U.S. would slaughter everyone and the team that finishes 2nd would just be the least sucky team.
 
#11
#11
That wouldn't be fun or fair. It's not like the NBA where there are a bunch of international stars. It would be assembling the greatest team of all time and then putting them up against some random guys from other countries. May as well just give us the gold and not risk the death.
 
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Baseball and basketball can grow internationally because they are cheap to play. american football is incredibly expensive by comparison
 
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Yankee_Vol said:
64 countries play now IIRC
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Really? Crazy.

None the less...

Coach: Belichick(?)
QB: Rodgers, Brady, Brees
RB: Peterson, CJ, MJD
WR: CJ, Fitz, Steve Smith, Andre Johnson
TE: Gronkowski, Graham

And so on.

U.S. would dominate.
 
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bentenn said:
Canada could be somewhat competitive, thats about it. Looks like England is trying to pick up interest in the game but they couldnt compete
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Canada would in no way be competitive with the United States in football.
 
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tvolsfan said:
Canada would in no way be competitive with the United States in football.
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But they'd be the most competitive. Maybe...

Maybe not...

Isn't most of the CFL made up mostly of U.S. players who didn't make the cut in the NFL? If that's the case, they'd still be American and wouldn't play for Canada anyways.

CFL itself seems like the obvious choice for number two behind the NFL though. If the players from that league could combine, they would still lose to U.S. but they'd be better than other leagues across the world.
 
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TOP said:
But they'd be the most competitive. Maybe...

Maybe not...

Isn't most of the CFL made up mostly of U.S. players who didn't make the cut in the NFL? If that's the case, they'd still be American and wouldn't play for Canada anyways.

CFL itself seems like the obvious choice for number two behind the NFL though. If the players from that league could combine, they would still lose to U.S. but they'd be better than other leagues across the world.
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This was what I meant
 
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There is absolutely no way NFL pros would be sent. It would probably be college guys like hoops used to be until the rest of the interested countries caught up again like hoops.
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ToineMac said:
There is absolutely no way NFL pros would be sent. It would probably be college guys like hoops used to be until the rest of the interested countries caught up again like hoops.
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College players would still finish first imo.

Heck, somebody like Alabama, LSU, USC, Texas etc. would probably finish 1st on their own against other countries. And it might not even even take top teams to win gold in football.

Maybe I'm just ignorant to other countries that play football but U.S. just seems to be so far ahead and would have a huge advantage.
 
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