The United States are the gold standard. There’s no denying it. The US men’s national flag football team are the reigning World, Continental and World Games champions.
The question is: can anyone dislodge them from their perch, and will a surprise come as early as the group stages at the 2024 IFAF World Championships in Lahti?
The impressive medal collection of USA quarterback Darrell ‘Housh’ Doucette includes gold mined in Israel in 2021 the last time the world’s best came together in one competition; Birmingham, Alabama, when an inaugural World Games title was won; and again on home soil in Charlotte, North Carolina, in claiming the continental crown. Housh leads a cast of familiar faces and a few squad newcomers to Finland, where the initial challenge comes from Europe and the Americas in Group A.