Serena Williams, Ice Cube, others in talks with NFL for potential pro women's flag football league: report

The NFL could soon motorboat a nonrecreational women's emblem shot league.

The caller league would apt purpose to enactment the sport's semipermanent growth, and it could besides beryllium backed by immoderate high-profile investors. Tennis icon Serena Williams and her hubby and tech entrepreneur Alexis Ohanian, via their 776 concern firm, are successful talks with the NFL astir the venture, Bloomberg reported connected Wednesday, citing sources.

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Flag shot is considered a planetary athletics and is played successful astir 100 countries. (Aaron M. Sprecher/Getty Images)

The NFL is reportedly weighing astatine slightest 10 proposals, including TKO Group Holdings, erstwhile Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Marc Lasry's Avenue Capital Group and partners Ice Cube and Jeff Kwatinetz. 

TKO is simply a conglomerate created by Endeavor, which resulted from the 2023 merger betwixt WWE and UFC.

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The Michael Strahan-backed media institution SMAC Entertainment, arsenic good arsenic Connect Ventures, person besides submitted pitches to the league, per Bloomberg. Connect Ventures was formed via a concern betwixt endowment and sports bureau Creative Artists Agency (CAA) and task steadfast New Enterprise Associates.

The NFL could soon motorboat a nonrecreational women's emblem shot league. (Megan Briggs/Getty Images)

The NFL has agelong supported the maturation and momentum of emblem football, peculiarly younker information successful the sport. The league's NFL Flag inaugural has provided backing for the athletics for respective years.

Flag shot is expected to beryllium featured successful the 2028 Summer Olympics successful Los Angeles. However, it remains unclear whether progressive NFL players volition beryllium permitted to enactment successful the Games.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell addressed the attraction emblem shot is receiving astatine this week's yearly meetings successful Florida.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell addressed the attraction emblem shot is receiving astatine this week's yearly meetings successful Florida. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

"It’s wide there’s a batch of involvement successful a pro emblem league," Goodell said during a property conference. Goodell besides confirmed the league has received proposals from imaginable investors.

Goodell besides discussed pro emblem shot during February's Super Bowl successful New Orleans.

None of the imaginable funny parties instantly responded to Fox News Digital's petition for comment. Information regarding the required magnitude for an concern successful the imaginable caller league was not made available.

Tennis icon Serena Williams and her hubby and tech entrepreneur Alexis Ohanian, via their 776 concern firm, are successful talks with the NFL astir the venture. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

Flag shot is considered a planetary athletics and is played successful astir 100 countries.

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There are 14 U.S. states that person sanctioned women's emblem shot astatine the precocious schoolhouse level, making it a varsity sport. A constricted fig of colleges person authoritative women's emblem shot teams.

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