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The NFL players are allowed to compete in the team USA FLOF FOOTBALL TEAM Olympics when the summer matches hit Los Angeles in 2028.
Darrell Doucette III is already on the American men’s national team as the team’s quarterback. The United States sat at the top of the world’s flag football ranks last year.
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Quarterback Darrell Doucette, #7, prepares to give the ball to the broad recipient Darius Davis, #4, under the American Flag Football League Ultimate Final match between match cancer and Godspeed on July 19, 2018 at BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston. (Leslie Plaza Johnson/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
It is because of the success that Doucette said he hoped he and his teammates would receive a shot to compete for a place on Team USA with the influx of professional footballers who should also try.
“Flag guys deserve their opportunity,” Doucette told the Washington Post in a recent conversation. “That’s all we want. We felt we were working hard to get the sport to the place it is on, and when the NFL guys talked about it, it was as if we were being kicked to the side. I felt I was the guy who could speak for my friends, for my brothers who have worked hard to get to this level so that we were not forgotten.”
Doucette added that he thought the team is good enough as it is winning gold in Los Angeles.
An Olympic rings flag at the University of Southern California on March 30, 2025 in Los Angeles. (Kirby Lee/Getty Images)
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“This is a sport that we have been playing for a long time and we feel we are the best at it and we do not need other guys,” he told the business. “But we all have a goal in mind, and that is to represent our country. We are definitely open to all competition. If these guys come in and ball out and they are better than us, they were hating them. Go with the gold medal for our country.”
The Lord’s national team has won the World Cup five consecutive times.
NFL owners unanimously approved the players’ participation in flag football during their meeting last week.
Doucette already ruffled feathers last year when he said he was better than Patrick Mahomes on the sport because of his “Iq of the Game.”
Kansas City Chiefs Quarterback Patrick Mahomes chews his mouth protection during warm -ups before an NFL football match against Denver Broncos Sunday 10 November 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. (AP Photo/Reed Hoffmann, File)
“At the end of the day, I feel like I’m better than Patrick Mahomes because of my IQ of the game. I know he’s the best in the league right now, I know he’s more accurate, I know he has all these intangible things – but when it comes to marking football, I feel like I know more than him,” he told TMZ Sports last year.
