Barlborough Dec 2023

Sport
Sheffield Giants American Football
Club ready for the Olympics!
Flag Football has just been officially announced as one of five new spors
added to the Olypic progam for the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles
It’s the first me that flag football will be an
official Olympic Game, and the Sheffield
Giants are primed and ready to take the
sport into the new dawn.
We are so excited at this amazing prospect,
and hope to have some of our players
showcasing their talent at the Los Angeles
Olympic games and showing the sporng
community what the Sheffield Giants are
made of.
WHAT IS FLAG FOOTBALL
I HEAR YOU SAY?
Flag football is a non-contact variaon of
American football. Seven-me Super Bowlwinning
quarterback Tom Brady played Flag
football from elementary school through to
his first year at high school. This set him up to
go on to be an uerly amazing quarterback.
SO, HOW DO YOU PLAY IT?
The aim of the game is to score touchdowns,
just like in American Football. But you can
tackle people by removing one of their ‘flags’
which are aached to a belt around the
player’s waists, with one on each side.
Play starts at a team’s own five-yard line, the
‘centre’ snaps the ball back to the
quarterback, who can either throw the ball
forwards to a receiver, or hand off to a
running back.
The play is over when either a flag is
removed, the player carrying the ball goes
out of bounds, a forward pass hits the
ground, or a touchdown is scored. Each
team will have four aempts – otherwise
known as ‘downs’ – to reach the halfway
line. If they are successful, they have
another four downs to reach the endzone
to score a touchdown. If not successful,
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