Since 1971, the league has had a national championship game. The first national flag football organization, the National Touch Football League, was formed in the 1960s in St. The first known recorded history of flag football can be traced to Fort Meade, Maryland, USA, which is now generally accepted as the sport's birthplace. At the time it was called "Touch and Tail football", which then became "flag football" after the war ended.
The game began as a recreational sport created for American military personnel to help them stay fit but was designed in a way that would help prevent them from becoming injured during wartime. The best available records to date point to the early 1940s during World War II as the sport's starting point. In 2022, flag football was shortlisted as a proposed discretionary event for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. The international governing body for the sport is the International Federation of American Football (IFAF). In flag football, contact is limited between players. The sport has a strong amateur following with several national and international competitions each year sponsored by various associations but is most popularly played in America where it was invented. No (Considered for 2028 Summer Paralympics)įlag football is a variant of American football where, instead of tackling players to the ground, the defensive team must remove a flag or flag belt from the ball carrier ("deflagging") to end a down.
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