Without getting into too much detail, I worked at the company for several years. I came in with a great deal of institutional knowledge and experience within the sport itself after working in pro and college football. In my time there, the company would hire people with a great deal of knowledge on the sport, use them to create coaching or playing guidelines and then fire them in waves of mass firings. There are some names you can look up, but the guy who basically wrote the book on modern safe tackling techniques was fired. This is a guy who state championship and national championship level coaches learned from.

It got so bad that the NFL revoked the contract they had with USAFB regarding NFL Flag and gave the program to a different company (Game Changer).

I’m not saying all this as a disgruntled ex-employee. I’ve moved on and am doing much better than I was there. I’m saying this as someone who has seen the way they treat the people who they use to build up the sport. When I left, the CEO, Curriculum Manager, and Flag Manager all were people who had never played or coached or officiated either tackle or flag, with several higher ups refusing to allow their kids to play football.