The Tribune

By TENAJH SWEETING

Tribune Sports Reporter

tsweeting@tribunemedia.net

THE National Football League (NFL) Flag Bahamas’ team commuted to New York to appear on Fox News yesterday morning.

The team, along with the Minister of Youth, Sports, and Culture Mario Bowleg, Adriana Fox, co-founder of the Fox Foundation along with six children, flew out to the Big Apple to talk about The Bahamas being the first Caribbean country selected to join the NFL Flag.

Chris Prudhome, head of NFL Flag Bahamas, talked about the league’s expansion to the Caribbean country.

“The NFL obviously wants to expand it on a global capacity and flag football is certainly the way young girls are involved and everyone’s involved so we are pretty enthusiastic about that, so we are excited to be the gateway to the Caribbean and The Bahamas,” Prudhome stated.

In his appearance on Fox News, Minister Bowleg said The Bahamas’ borders are open to all international sports as it is the place for “Sports in Paradise”.

“We welcome it, the government welcomes it and we are providing land so that we can make sure that we get the necessary facilities.

“We are happy to be the first in the Caribbean,” Bowleg said.

Minister Bowleg added that NFL is a brand, The Bahamas is a brand, and the combination is going to make NFL Flag Football Bahamas great in the country.

Fox talked about the role the foundation played in the launch of NFL Flag Bahamas. “We played a pivotal role in the launch of the NFL Flag Football and we believe in helping the young Bahamians.

“We want to better the Bahamas. We want to encourage all students, females and males, to participate in this sport and wherever we can help, we will help them in getting the job done,” Fox said.

According to Prudhome, NFL Flag Bahamas will look to expand to other Caribbean countries in the future.

But the organisation has pledged to work on helping The Bahamas first.

Next week Tuesday, NFL Flag Bahamas is scheduled to host the first-ever flag football clinic in the Bahamas at the Thomas A Robinson stadium.

The clinic will allow for the youth and adult participants to showcase their flag football skills and test their agility.

Following the flag football clinic, the season is expected to begin for kids and adults in late August.

The cost for the flag football clinic is $100 for the youth and $115 for adults.

Interested individuals can sign up at www.nflflagbahamas.com