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Could flag football one day leapfrog tackle football in popularity?

  • Written by Josh Woods, Professor of Sociology, West Virginia University
imageYouth flag football players run drills with their coach before a game in Dayton, Ohio, on Oct. 8, 2023.Megan Jelinger/The Washington Post via Getty Images

One hundred years into the future, what if millions of people gathered every February, not to watch the Super Bowl, but to instead watch the annual world flag football championship?

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