“The response was quite frankly more than we were prepared for,” he said. The NFL teams selected eight schools to start and provided uniforms and gear. The Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers started a pilot high school league during the last school year, giving many girls a first shot at playing.Ĭhase Hartman, the Chargers' former community relations manager, said more than 70 schools filled out interest forms for the new pilot league. The NFL sees flag football as a way to encourage its female fans. It also is far cheaper than tackle football since no helmets or pads are needed. A play ends when an opposing player pulls off the flag of a ball-carrier. Flag football allows them to experience the sport in a way “that has all the knowledge, skills, and ability and the strategy of traditional football without some of the more violent parts of it,” said Paula Hart Rodas, president-elect of the CIF Southern Section’s council who previously coached Lawndale High School’s flag team. While girls are allowed to play tackle football on high school teams in California, few do. And it was added as a collegiate sport by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, with colleges in Florida, Georgia, Kansas and elsewhere fielding teams. If approved, the state federation - which governs interscholastic sports in California - would take it up next month with a goal of making it an official sport in the nation’s most populous state for the 2023-24 school year.įlag football already is a sanctioned high school girls sport in states including Alabama and Nevada. On Thursday, the southern section of the California Interscholastic Federation is expected to vote on making it an official girls’ high school sport.
NFL Makes Push for Flag Football With Eye on 2028 Summer Olympics
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