“I certainly could envision on both the men’s and women’s side, if you wanted to sort of think into the future, every NFL team has their own men’s and women’s flag team that perhaps plays in the offseason and uses some of the branding of the parent team,” Hunt said from the site of the Super Bowl.

The inaugural flag-football based event two years ago had 6.3 million watching. The good news, if there is any, is that the Thursday night skills challenge on ESPN dropped only on

Flag football is one of the fastest-rising sports in the United States and will be a part of the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.