Should football be an olympic sport?

teams usually play 1 game a week, trying to fit a whole tourney in a 2 week olympic not gonna happen

AWESOME!!!! Dont be negative... tackle football is played in more than 50 countries split onto 6 continents! by 2018 there will be 100 nations playing the sport... do the math... by 2010 there will be about 65-70 countries practising gridiron! there're 50-55 member nations in the IFAF!!! In the UK tackle football is getting really popular ever since the NFL launched its games @ Wembley!!! it will be possible for gridiron to be inducted surprisingly for the summer 2012 games!!!(80% chance)

btw i could imagine Nastia Liukin telling Todd Reesing(Jayhawks) and Ryan Murphy to anhiliate the hell outta China,lol(somehow they'll put up a toe2 toe fight with the USA's NCAA Dream team if it were to happen,lol) overall very high chance since the sport is sceretly taking earth by storm.... i hope chicago wins the 2016 hosting!! ITS TIME TO SHOW THE WORLD ON HOW TO WIN A GOLD THE HARD WAY!!!!

PS: from now on... lets call american football! TACKLE FOOTBALL!!!

NO.The olympics is bout sports that r not as easy to do and that take a while to learn.In football all u do is pass a ball and run!No hard thing to that.Also the olympics is for games of class and major skill in football ppl jump on ppl to stop them from getting a ball in a goal BIG DEAL!!! Most guys might say she is just saying that bc she is a woman,but some women do like football so it is not bc of that faceat all .I just fell that football is a sport that anyone can learn at the drop of a dime and it id not that important.All they do is break bones and run one ball to a goal.I think that football is not in the olympics for a reson and those resons r there for a reason.

Erm... No thanks *pushes it away* You can keep it America, it's okay.

Football... eh... not really a global thing... The USA would probably make a big deal about it being in the olympics because they are pretty much the only ones that play it. Also, in Canada, the people aren't nearly as fanatical about football as they are in America.

You pretty much answered your question yourself though. It shouldn't be an olympic sport because not enough countries play it, cuts into training, and the risk of injury.

The biggest problem aside from the lack of quality competition would be the physical nature of the game. Because of the pounding teams don't play more than once a week. They would have to have to qualify teams well before the Olympics started to narrow the field down to 8 teams. That would be 3 games to decide the gold medal winner.

HELL NO. Football is a stupid sport played by USA because we think we're to good to play soccer like the rest of the world. Its so stupid and complicated. Why play that when soccer is twice as fun. Its also boring because you get like one 10 second play and you stop, you get another 10 seconds and stop, and so on. AND then they take their gay sausage fest shower together and have their gay after parties in locker room. Football players think they're so tough when they don't have the brains do anything right. The fact that you have to put all this equipment and crap is so stupid. Why dress up like an idiot? The only good thing about football are the cheerleaders cause they're hott.

I'm telling you man, football sucks. Jocks are gay. USA needs to start taking up soccer, a REAL sport.

Football (soccer) is an Olympic sport. If any other type of Football were to be added to the Olympics, it would be Rugby Union because it has far more International Appeal then NFL.

It'll be dope. We would definitely get gold every Olympics. Imagine Peyton Manning throwing a pass to Terrell Owens or Ed Reed and Brian Urlacher gang tackling. It would be awesome to see Adrian Peterson and Ladainian Tomlinson in the same backfield. We wouldn't even have to steal signals because the other countries wouldn't know what to do. I'd like to see any country stop Tom Brady. I just want to see it so that we can see who can do better touchdown celebrations and rub it into the opponents betweet T.O. and Ocho Cinco. I want to see Ray Lewis kill someone. I'd just see it for the sole fact that we would always dominate like forever.

No. No other countries play it and I really don't want to see the British or French mincing about with a football.

Why should it be? Not many other countries out there play it. I mean it is called...AMERICAN football for a reason. So there is no reason to put American football as a sport when Americans are probably the only ones that do play it... And yes technically there is football in the Olympics but that just means soccer.