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Peyton Manning: 'Completely Bogus' Football is Not An Olympic Sport

Posted Aug 28, 2008 12:20PM By Matt Snyder (RSS feed)

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With the Beijing Olympics coming to a close this past week and the NFL season nearly upon us, one can't help but think ... how much would USA absolutely obliterate the competition if football was an Olympic sport? If Peyton Manning has his way, we'll get to find out in London circa 2012.

Yes, he's got a petition. You can sign it by visiting his "Make Football An Olympic Sport" page.

For the record, this isn't even remotely realistic, but it's fun to imagine the bloodbath that our football players would inflict on the opposition from around the world.

Of course, it can't hurt to sign it. We can never have too many medals here in America, land of Olympic dominance.

Hat tip: Steady burn.

Tags: olympics, peyton+manning, PeytonManning

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

8-28-2008 @ 2:59PM

Cooper said...

There is no way that NFL coaches and GMs would allow their players to play in the olympics. It would end up being like olympic baseball. Only low level college players and players out of college but not good enough for the NFL would be there.

8-28-2008 @ 3:57PM

Dr Huxtable said...

Peyton's joke aside, are there even enough foreign football players available to create a single combined international team?

8-28-2008 @ 8:25PM

TheWeave said...

Who says they would take Peyton? Why not Brady?

8-28-2008 @ 5:59PM

Thefriz33 said...

Well we could at least play Canada...I know that they have the CFL...but it would still be no contest lol

8-28-2008 @ 10:20PM

Jim Heyssel said...

Really? American Football in the Olympics? Maybe Rugby, which can be played by any athlete who can stand a bloody nose and concussion... but only the Aussies really get whatever That Is.

C'mon. The American football game is too specialized to make an Olympic sport. It is also the most entertaining game in the world. But Olympic? LOL

But, I will point out that Darrell Green, recent inductee into the NFL Hall of Fame, was probably the fastest man in the world in the prime of his NFL career. But, I have no proof, since his 40-yard times don't count in world records. I will also point out that the best American athletes play pro sports, and are not usually available for the Olympics, with the exception of some players from the NBA. I wonder how many NFL and NBA players, if they had the time to compete in the Olympics, would obliterate the records held in track and field.

We will never know, unless the IOC figures out a way to bring the best athletes in the world into a SuperStar Games that works around the schedules that pro athletes around the world have to deal with. Most athletes love competition and love a world stage. So, money is not the real problem -- unless owners are scared of the injury possibilities.

The real issue is what the Olympics really are? Because they are not a competition among the best athletes in the world, except in some sports. The professional sports retain the best athletes in the world, for the most part, for obvious $$ reasons.

Jim

8-29-2008 @ 1:49PM

Sports fan said...

I'd love to see that. When the Giants went to England last year the Brits hadn't the slightest idea what was going on.........hopefully the beer was good.

9-04-2008 @ 8:33PM

Gabriel said...

When I was two, me, my dad, and my mom lived in Indiana.We lived next to the stadium so we met a lot of the players.We met Peyton Manning and my mom massaged at the time.So my mom asked him if he wanted a free massage.He got the massage and we got everybodys autograph.I am eleven right now and I cant beileve I met my favorite football player when I was two.