“I certainly could envision on both the men’s and women’s side, if you wanted to sort of think into the future, every NFL team has their own men’s and women’s flag team that perhaps plays in the offseason and uses some of the branding of the parent team,” Hunt said from the site of the Super Bowl.

The NFL is "exploring very aggressively" making flag football a professional sport, commissioner Roger Goodell told reporters Monday during his annual Super Bowl week press conference. Why it matters: Investors have been rushing the field to prop up new startup sports leagues,