{"id":3215,"date":"2026-03-20T20:13:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/would-joe-burrow-play-olympic-flag-football-heres-what-he-said-cincinnati-enquirer\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T20:13:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:13:31","slug":"would-joe-burrow-play-olympic-flag-football-heres-what-he-said-cincinnati-enquirer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/would-joe-burrow-play-olympic-flag-football-heres-what-he-said-cincinnati-enquirer\/","title":{"rendered":"Would Joe Burrow play Olympic flag football? Here&#039;s what he said &#8211; Cincinnati Enquirer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Would Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow consider playing flag football when it&#8217;s scheduled <a href=https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/news\/flag-football-la28-nfl-players-weigh-olympic-opportunity>to make its debut<\/a> at the Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028?<br \/>&#8220;The opportunity to win a gold medal is something I thought about as a little kid,&#8221; <a href=https:\/\/x.com\/AndrewSiciliano\/status\/2035074769213919286>Burrow sai<\/a>d, ahead of the upcoming Fanatics Flag Football Classic in which he&#8217;s scheduled to compete.<br \/>Former NFL great Tom Brady appeared on &#8220;The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon&#8221; to discuss the Fanatics Flag Football Classic, and\u00a0<a href=https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2025\/09\/14\/joe-burrow-bengals-qb-sought-fame-advice-odell-beckham-tom-brady-kevin-durant\/86150760007\/>Brady<\/a>\u00a0sent a <a href=https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2026\/03\/18\/tom-brady-sends-message-joe-burrow-before-flag-football-game-loves-beating-heisman-winners\/89215660007\/>message to Burrow<\/a> and fellow NFL quarterback Jayden Daniels of the Washington Commanders, who, like Burrow, won a Heisman Trophy for the LSU Tigers.<br \/>&#8220;I texted Joe Burrow and Jayden Daniels,&#8221; Brady said. &#8220;They&#8217;re the opposing quarterbacks. I said, &#8216;You know, I love beating Heisman Trophy winners.&#8217; I was the 199th pick, and I always took dead aim at the guys who were picked way ahead of me. They said, &#8216;Talk that you-know-what. Bring it on.'&#8221;<br \/>Founders FFC will be captained by Brady and Jalen Hurts and coached by Sean Payton. Wildcats FFC will be captained by Burrow and Daniels and coached by Kyle Shanahan.<br \/>The Fanatics Flag Football Classic is scheduled to air live on FOX Sports, FOX One and Tubi from 4-8:30 p.m. Eastern.<br \/>The games will follow modified Olympic style flag football rules, featuring two 15-minute halves with a running clock on a 50&#215;25-yard field.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi6AFBVV95cUxNT2NEN3A3NzBsV1FrMXZ6WWpnb1BTSmNuUlNHOUdCbF9tNTJ1R1VvbXZ6VXowS24yVXN0VmZYemJVaDFFZ0NjZzlia05wME9WU1R5RXJfOG51amFDd1lFbXdUNjAxU3ZvRGhmMk1ON1c5WUhtWm42bW9fU1B5N0JlUWQ0bDVJYzk2ZXZaczdpclZEZVRhcUJ5T2dtb25FRU1CbVFEc2ROSWs1MXhwVk13aU1PcXkxREx4VW4wNXhuVFZoSzJEblI2cnBjVVFMa2haYWZjV1JNMlYtTllDRUtKNnd0OW4zQ0Nm?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow consider playing flag football when it&#8217;s scheduled to make its debut at the Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028?&#8220;The opportunity to win a gold medal is something I thought about as a little kid,&#8221; Burrow said, ahead of the upcoming Fanatics Flag Football Classic in which he&#8217;s scheduled to compete.Former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}