PLAY CALLED: Two Vietnam Flag Football League teams square off. Photo courtesy of VFFL By Peter Cowan At about 6.30am Việt Nam time on Monday February 8, the Super Bowl will kick-off in Tampa, Florida, pitting Patrick Mahomes’ defending champion Kansas City Chiefs against six-time winner Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. While the NFL season’s climax is taking place more than 15,500km away from HCM City and all the glitz, otherworldly athleticism and violence of American football barely makes a blip on the Vietnamese sporting radar, a safer version of the game is slowly gaining a foothold in HCM City. Flag football does away with the bone-jarring hits that full-contact football has become infamous for and ball carriers are instead tackled by removing a flag hung on their belt. Two flag leagues have popped up in the southern metropolis over the last year, keen to spread the love of the game and show that Vietnamese athletes can do anything … [Read more...] about Flag football touches down in HCM City