NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell isn’t satisfied with just running the most popular sport in the United States. He wants to see American football grow abroad until it reaches the point where it becomes an Olympic sport.
Goodell told Mike Florio on the Dan Patrick Show that football has taken many of the steps necessary to get recognized by the International Olympic Committee.
“Absolutely. We’re already taking steps to gain that IOC recognition. We have, I think, 64 countries that are playing American football now, and that’s one of the requirements. That’s been growing dramatically — I think it was 40 just five years ago,” Goodell said.
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Goodell has rubbed me the wrong way on pretty much every decision he's made since becoming commissioner, and this would be yet another one. I'm guessing that pretty much no NFL players would play even if football did get IOC affiliation, but between the 18 game season idea and this idea, and based on everything else he's done, he really seems to put the promotion of the NFL above the players safety.
And how badly would the US dominate this, even if they had to use college players? I mean, seriously?