When will the American football be played in the Olympics? Never?
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Section 47.1 of the Olympic Charter says:\n\nTo be included in the programme of the Olympic Games, an Olympic sports must conform to the following criteria:\n\n1. Only sports widely practised by men in at least seventy-five countries and on four continents and by women in at least forty countries and on three continents may be include in the programme of the Games of the Olympiad.\n\nSo, never.
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I want it Live at the Super Bowl, or if that is too long to wait at least the Rose Bowl.\n\nBefore anyone loses their mind remember this is a joke.
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If anything like Wembley stadium the olympics will not be ready for 2012
995523
Anything that happens only once every four years is worth getting excited about, especially when the best football players from ALL OVER THE WORLD are there to put up a hell of a show! Besides I got tired of watching the "world" baseball series, "world" NBA championships, "world" (american) football champions. How could they say they're world champions when they only play US teams?!? It's things like these that cause other countries to hate us so much.
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Because the site was set up in the US and they have no idea on what is important with football.....I mean hell......they even call the game soccer!!!
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The last olympics for AU was in 2000, there is no games scheduled for AU in the near future
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The Americans will lose badly, of course. \nThey can't play football.
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they can play football....!\n\nif you're commenting on them not being good at it you should probably ask the same question about Americans ! They really can't play football.\n\nEstonians have better things to be doing...like long distance cross country skiing in minus 20 degrees. That's much more of a skill.
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Football!!!! And not the damn American football!!!!\n\nGo Germany and France!!! I want to see WW III on the soccer field this summer!!!!!!!!!!!
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Because the NFL is on that day.  The NFL won't compete with NCAA and vice-versa.  There will once again be Bowl Games on New Year's Day 2007.
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No, I think that the Twins and the Vikings should have their own stadiums and this would be good if Minneapolis decides to put forth a bid for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games and the Games of the XXXII Olympiad assuming that the United States does not host the 2016 Summer Olympics. Also, I think that it will be a lot easier for both teams to have their own stadiums but the disadvantage for the Vikings Stadium is that since the stadium will be outdoors, they might not be about to host the Super Bowl again in the future like Minneapolis held in 1992 (Super Bowl XXVI).
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Hello, i'm david i used to live in europe for 15 years, i lived in the usa for 4 years now. I am a huge sport fan, when i was in europe i followed soccer and basketball. In europe american football is not popular at all, nba is making its case right now, but not the nfl. I think the only people who care about American football are American, but don't get me wrong i am a Chicago bears fan since i moved too america. The top two reasons i believe is that football is slow paced and there is two many commercial and it is called football
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The beautiful game.  Still a sport.  It makes the whole world stop.  More than the Olympics, more than any other event.  The goal means more than any other score in any other sport.  It is so elusive that when one is scored, feelings of euphoria and near death are felt at the same time.  It's the true football...\n\nGang, it's not American football...Look at the category.
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yes american football , not none of that SPlC soccer (fut bol)!
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NFL teams haven't played college teams in any exhibition games in way over 35 years.As a matter of fact, before the Pro Bowl, it was a NFL team vs a college team for many years.But as for Pitt vs OK, I have never heard of that happening.
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So tired of this question... \n\nWhy is the rest of the world so insecure because Americans have a game that is more fun than soccer and decided to call it football.  I'm thinking of starting a petition to change the official name of the American sport from football to:\n"THE GREATEST GAME IN THE WORLD AND TONS BETTER THAN DUMB STUPID SOCCER BALL"  \nWe'll still call it football for short though and insist that persons from Europe must call it by it's formal name.  Anyone want to sign up?  \n\nIf you are really interested in how American football got it's name, see the link below.  Everything you ever wanted to know.
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Wait! When were the Olympics on?? Wait.....isn't that this year? When are they? What?? They've aleady come and gone?? \n\nI see your point. I remember as a kid when the Olympics were bigger than Dallas. (Ok is Dallas really that big?) But my point is that they were uber special. We actually knew the athletes prior to going into the Olympics. We were invested! I think that is what is missing these days. We don't take enough of a personal approach to who we are supporting on our team. We focus on Bad Boy Bodie Miller who is just dumb enough to make all internationalists believe this is the epitome of American sportsmanship. I would love to see NBC take a different approach. Was it CBS that had done such a wonderful job before?? Is that the difference? hmmmmmmmmm