The International Federation of American Football quickly found a problem when it tried getting its sport into the Olympics about a decade ago. Forget any other reasons you might be skeptical about football catching on in the Games. Just look at the math: The participation field for each Summer Olympics is capped at 10,500 athletes, which means that without serious changes to the rest of the program, there would be no way to introduce traditional football and its 50-plus-man rosters. The conversations with the International Olympic Committee stalled.
