{"id":32640,"date":"2025-02-06T15:53:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T15:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/patrick-mahomes-and-olympic-flag-football-seek-to-can-bury-the-hatchet\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T15:53:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T15:53:41","slug":"patrick-mahomes-and-olympic-flag-football-seek-to-can-bury-the-hatchet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/patrick-mahomes-and-olympic-flag-football-seek-to-can-bury-the-hatchet\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Mahomes and Olympic flag football seek to can bury the hatchet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City\u2019s quarterback and USA men\u2019s flag football star Darrell \u2018Housh\u2019 Doucette ended up in a social media furor over the new Olympic sport for the LA Games<\/p>\n<p>The NFL superstar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/patrick-mahomes\">Patrick Mahomes<\/a> and USA men\u2019s flag-football quarterback Darrell \u201cHoush\u201d Doucette Jr have sought to bury the hatchet after being pitted against each other in a social media storm over the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Both men are in New Orleans as the city prepares for Sunday\u2019s Super Bowl, where Mahomes will lead the Chiefs against the Philadelphia Eagles, and the issue has surfaced again. Doucette went viral in August after he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/article\/2024\/aug\/17\/world-flag-football-champ-ready-to-fight-nfl-talents-for-us-olympics-spot\">told<\/a> the Guardian that it was \u201cdisrespectful\u201d for the public to assume that Mahomes and fellow NFL signal-callers like Joe Burrow and the Eagles\u2019 Jalen Hurts \u201cautomatically assume\u201d they would be able to oust him from his spot on USA\u2019s flag-football team\u2019s quarterback ahead of the sport\u2019s Olympic debut in Los Angeles in 2028.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/feb\/06\/patrick-mahomes-darrell-housh-doucette-bury-hatchet\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City\u2019s quarterback and USA men\u2019s flag football star Darrell \u2018Housh\u2019 Doucette ended up in a social media furor over the new Olympic sport for the LA Games The NFL superstar Patrick Mahomes and USA men\u2019s flag-football quarterback Darrell \u201cHoush\u201d Doucette Jr have sought to bury the hatchet after being pitted against each other in &#8230; <a title=\"Patrick Mahomes and Olympic flag football seek to can bury the hatchet\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/patrick-mahomes-and-olympic-flag-football-seek-to-can-bury-the-hatchet\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Patrick Mahomes and Olympic flag football seek to can bury the hatchet\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}