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As the Paris Games closed on Sunday night time, Parsons mentioned he needed to take a break from soccer after the 2027 season to deal with the 2028 Olympics.
“After 2027 ima take a break from football to prepare for the Olympics!” he wrote on X.
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Micah Parsons of the Dallas Cowboys earlier than a preseason sport towards the Los Angeles Rams at SoFi Stadium on Aug. 11, 2024, in Inglewood, California. (Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)
He added: “I need to find a way to get in the Olympics by 2028! What events yall think I can do?? Need ideas!!”
It’s unclear whether or not NFL gamers can be allowed to compete for Team USA on the Olympics.
USA Football introduced its nationwide group males’s and girls’s rosters for the IFAF Flag Football World Championships, which begin on Aug. 27 in Finland. The U.S. is in Group A in each the boys’s and girls’s competitions. There had been no NFL gamers on the roster.
NFL stars Patrick Mahomes, Kyle Juszczyk and Joe Burrow have expressed curiosity in competing within the Olympics.
Dallas Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons walks on the sphere throughout coaching camp at River Ridge Playing Fields on July 25, 2024, in Oxnard, California. (Brandon Sloter/Icon Sportswire through Getty Images)
“I 100% want to play flag football in 2028,” Juszczyk advised Fox News Digital in an interview final month. “And whoever’s in charge of that selection committee, please go watch my 2022 Pro Bowl highlight tape. That is my resume for the Olympics. Hopefully, I can find a way to get in there.”
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Burrow made his declaration in an interview on Barstool Sports’ “Pardon My Take.”
“I really want to play for the Olympic flag football team. Like Me, Ja’marr (Chase), Justin (Jefferson)… Me and my friends out there playing football. I think it’d be really cool.”
Nearly a 12 months in the past, Mahomes mentioned the identical.
“NFL football, American football, has taken to further parts, all the way across the world, with flag football coming to the Olympics. I think it’s really cool, because football is a great game that has given me so much, and I want to make sure everyone gets the same experience that I got growing up,” Mahomes mentioned at a information convention in November, based on the Olympics web site.
Tom Cruise helps switch the Olympic flag from Paris to the 2028 host metropolis, Los Angeles, throughout the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics on Aug. 11, 2024. (Lu Lin/Chinasports/VCG through Getty Images)
“I definitely want to, but I’ve seen some of those guys play the flag football, and they’re a little faster than I am,” he mentioned. “I know there’s not, like, linemen blocking for you. I’ll be 31, 32 years old, so if I can still move around then, I’m going to try to get out there and throw the football around maybe in LA. Just don’t tell coach Reid or [general manager Brett] Veach or anybody.”
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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell mentioned in October the league was “committed to working together to strengthen flag football’s place in the Olympic movement long-term, and we look forward to continuing this exciting journey with IFAF, the LA28 Organizing Committee, the International Olympic Committee and USA Football.”
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