American football, according to the Cambridge Dictionary, is a competitive team sport where the object is to score points by advancing the oval-shaped ball into the opposing team’s end zone via throwing or handing it from one teammate to the other.
This concept is summarised in the format of flag football, which is basically American football minus the hard hits - although you wouldn’t know it watching one girl from Little Ealing Primary School truck an opponent at the National Flag Football Championship in Loughborough. With the opportunity to fly to Las Vegas and represent the United Kingdom in the International Flag Football finals at the Pro Bowl on the line, her bellicose style was certainly warranted and even admired.
Flag Football is a popular format of the game for those that love to play the game but want to avoid the physical issues that come with getting thumped around a pitch for 60 minutes (officially 60 minutes - it’s more like three hours). This means it’s the perfect game for 20,000 children from 300 schools across the country to get involved.
