Flag football
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Flag football or flag gridiron is a variant of gridiron football where, instead of tackling players to the ground, the defensive team must remove a flag or flag belt from the ball carrier to end a dow
A game of flag football being played by US Army soldiers in Iraq
Children playing the sport in Mexico
Player at the point of taking other player's flag at a game at Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico City
Flag football is sometimes played on sand.
American football
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American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with
Flag football
…Flag football or flag gridiron is a variant of gridiron football (American football or Canadian football depending on location) where, instead of tackling players to the ground, the defensive team must remove a flag or flag belt from…
Larry Fitzgerald (in blue) catches a pass while Cortland Finnegan (in red) plays defense at the 2009 Pro Bowl.
Walter Camp, the "Father of American Football", in 1878 when Camp was captain of Yale University's football team
The dangers associated with the sport depicted in a 1908 cartoon by William Charles Morris
A quarterback for the Kiel Baltic Hurricanes in Germany under center and ready to take the snap