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The NFL Is Building a Pro Flag League: TMRW Sports Partnership and a Global Talent Search Begin
Flag football is about to get a professional home. The NFL has partnered with TMRW Sports to launch a professional flag football league for men and women, backed by up to $32 million in investment through 32 Equity, the league’s investment arm.
The ownership and ambassador group reads like a hall of fame roll call: Peyton Manning, Joe Montana, Steve Young, Larry Fitzgerald, Tom Brady, Eli Manning, Russell Wilson, Bobby Wagner and Arik Armstead from football, joined by Serena Williams, Billie Jean King, Ilana Kloss and Alex Morgan — a deliberate signal that the women’s league is a headline act, not a side project.
The plan moved from press release to pavement this fall. On October 7, the partners held their first international talent qualifier, opening the search for the players who will stock the league’s first rosters — many of them the same stars who just contested the IFAF World Championships and the NAIA and NCAA college seasons.
For elite women players, the timing is everything: a pro league arriving alongside the sport’s 2028 Olympic debut gives flag football something it has never had — a full pathway from high school fields to a professional paycheck.
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Alabama Runs Deep: Undefeated Moody, Central and Montgomery Catholic All Sit in the National Top 15
If you want to find the center of the high school flag football universe, check Alabama. Three Alabama programs sit in the USA TODAY Super 25 national rankings — and the state’s No. 2 team hasn’t lost in 30 games.
Moody (17-0) is the streak story of the fall. The defending AHSAA Class 1A-5A champions picked up their 30th consecutive win this week, are ranked No. 7 in the Super 25 and No. 8 in the MaxPreps national rankings, and recently outscored three opponents 146-0 in a single week. Sophomore Sophie White put up 472 all-purpose yards and seven touchdowns in one doubleheader. The Blue Devils’ title DNA is real: last December at Protective Stadium, quarterback Serenity Rutledge threw three touchdown passes — to Zoey Terry, White and Kennedy Hockman — and Cheyenne Moore returned an interception 48 yards for a score in a 27-18 final win over Montgomery Catholic.
Central of Phenix City (11-2) is Alabama’s No. 1 and the nation’s No. 5, powered by Savannah Sevier, who recently stacked 301 yards, four touchdowns, six flag pulls and four pass breakups in a single week. Montgomery Catholic (12-1), ranked No. 15 nationally, is right back in the hunt behind senior Hayden Fitts, who ran for three touchdowns and threw for another against Spain Park.
With Spain Park, Vestavia Hills, Boaz and Brewbaker Tech also ranked in the state Super 10, Alabama’s playoffs this winter might be the toughest tournament in the country.
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