Should American Football become an olympic sport?

Um, maybe I've just been asleep for the past 100 years, but last time I checked, Christianity was pretty prevelant in the athletes of every American sport.

Because of youthful indoctrination and peer pressure from groups such as the FCA.

I agree that American football should receive greater visibility than it does, but I don't see it coming anytime soon. You listed eight countries in your question, and in one of them (Australia) you only cite one player. Rugby is far more widely played than American football, with vast support throughout the Commonwealth nations.

It just got reinstated after a 92-year hiatus, and even then it only allowed the 7-man version. American football would be hard to host in the Olympics for a couple of logistical reasons. Which rules would you use, American or Canadian?

Remember, the Canucks play on a bigger field with 12 players per side, 3 downs per set of downs, and a missed FG scores a point for the defense. Also, given you can't play more than once a week and the Olympics only last about 16 days, you can't schedule more than 3 rounds of games -- quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals. That's 4 teams.

How are you going to gain worldwide support when only four nations make the biggest stage? Then there's the problem of stadiums. The field will need to rest between games.

Assuming you have two fields available (that aren't being used for soccer and rugby), the field will be a mess by the end of the quarterfinals. That's going to make for sloppy play in the semifinals and finals. Of course, you could play on artificial turf, but that leads to more injury, the reason the NFL smartly moved away from the fake stuff.

The fact of the matter is European aristocrats have disproportionate power over selecting Olympic sports. They prefer artistic and dainty sports to bruising and grinding ones. If you want to extrapolate that to mean there's a bias against sports that Europeans do poorly in, there's an argument to be made there.

Baseball and softball are no longer Olympic sports, and lacrosse was wiped out long ago. But to claim that, you must acknowledge the admission of sports that Europeans traditionally also perform poorly: judo, taekwondo, and beach volleyball. BTW, I lived extensively in Japan and never noticed coverage of football on the TV news.

As a huge football fan, I would have noticed. Football just is not a big deal there. It's far, far behind baseball and sumo.

There are leagues around the world just America is to good at the sport.

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