An NFL ad during the Super Bowl promoted girls varsity flag football. NPR speaks with NYU adjunct professor and sports writer Jane McManus about why the NFL is promoting the sport now.

The league will have a two-minute spot after the halftime show directed by Peter Berg and starring Pat McAfee, Justin Jefferson and other stars, calling for girls flag football to become a varsity ...

The NFL has used the Super Bowl to advertise flag football in recent years and is back in 2025 with a commercial calling to make girls flag football a varsity sport in all 50 states.

She said it would mean the world to win a state championship with it being her first year playing out of Kamehameha. Like most teams, the Kamehameha Girls Flag Football team will range from very ...

Featuring Pat McAfee, Marshawn Lynch and Justin Jefferson, the spot is a play on 1980s high school movies, with the boys on the football team noting "girls don't play football" and growing ...

Munoz, who plays for Texas Fury, a club team, recently committed to play women's flag football ... News that the team plans to expand its girls' flag football program to two Austin-area school ...

Three Guilford girls had an "adventure of a lifetime," according to Mya Page, as they flew down to Orlando, Florida, earlier ...

The ad itself has boys on the fictional high school football team noting that "Girls can't play football" and then growing increasingly frustrated when realizing that the girls at their school are ...

On Monday, February 10, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will host their seventh annual Girls Flag Football Preseason Classic, presented by AdventHealth. In 2025, the competition will return to the ...

Led by sophomores Tehani Shigematsu and Manahere Peters, the Pine Crest Sloan Canyon girls flag football team moved on to the ...