American Football in the Olympics?


If you're a sports fan, who frankly enjoys all sports in the world, then there's nothing better then sitting back every four years for 2 weeks to enjoy one of the greatest sporting events of all time. I'm talking about, of course, the great Olympic games. 

The Olympic games are held every four years and is a world wide event for everyone to enjoy, featuring the top athletes that hail from 88 different countries. 2,800 athletes makeup the participants of the games. From the day of the burning of the torch to till the end of the games it's definitely fool of tears, excitement, pain, and great athletic talent, no don't the great sporting event of all time.

 

The world wide symbol

of the Olympic games know as the

Olympic Rings





The next Olympic games will be taking place in Rio of 2016, and the USA looks to reclaim there's dominance in winning gold metals. U.S. athletes took the stage at London coming out with a total of 104 medals (46 in which were gold, 29 sliver and 29 bronze) finishing number one in gold metals over all. The 46 gold medals won broke the U.S. record for the most medals won in Olympic games in the history of medal standings in the USA.

 

But yet the that might not be enough, Maybe there's a way to get another gold medal in a different sport in the Olympics, even though USA basketball has been the number one team for winner gold medals; because basketball is a sport we dominate. And another sport we dominate in is American Football. Yes I said ( American) Football. USA football committee as well as the IFAF ( International Federation of American Football) is trying to propose to the Olympic committee to had American Football as an official Olympic Sport.   

 

 

Of course there is a whole lot of issues when coming to adding an Olympic sport, there is getting over the Olympic committee which is hard enough, and then seeing if you can get enough countries' to participate. Then one of the biggest issues... The cost of that sport being entered into the games. That's why football being entered into the Olympic is such a long and tough issue. Football has been trying to get into the Olympics for years now and there getting pretty close, the IFAF has enough teams to represent the sport, and they have the uniforms, and the rules down. Each country in the IFAF understands the sport and there are over a dozen teams entered in the international games. And what the IFAF is trying to do is convince that American football is a well organized and competitive sport throughout all nations.

The trouble is the cost of putting this sport into the Olympics, the cost of building stadiums around the world in a different country every four years would be extremely expensive and possible not a good investment. USA would most likely would be the most dominate team in the games, which is why there is even more controversy. People believe that the U.S. would have and un fair advantage because we dominate this sport, and yes we do preform well but the world is becoming to develop some very talented and competitive teams in American football.

 But the main concern is still money and building different stadiums in main different countries and finding the time to put football let alone a whole new sport is a very long and difficult issue. Money is always the main concern, and whether or not the sport can turn a profit on a global sell is beyond me or beyond the Olympic committee. So we will just have to wait and see what happens in 2020.

 

 

 

USA's Team defensive captain Tyler Kuntz
Flies the American flag before there international
match up verses Japan