The president of Showtime Flag Football, Azeez Amida has served up a strong hint that the outfit’s vastly popular weekly league matches could move to more venues in days to come, Sports247 reports.
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While acknowledging that Showtime Flag Football League (SFFL) currently takes place at a single venue and the games hold only on Sundays at their base in the Lekki area of Lagos, Amida admitted there is a need for expansion.
With the outfit now fully and officially affiliated to Nigerian Federation of American Football (NIFAF), of which he is the new vice-president, Amida also agreed that the nature of their very popular abd glamorous weekly games at the high-profile Showtime Arena is bound to grow in value.
“The rules will improve, the players will get better and the standard will be higher. Our aim is not to change the game, but to keep on doing what we know how to do and do it better.
“We’ll always try to do it better, and we hope to keep on improving. We’ll keep learning the nuances, fix what needs to be fixed and keep driving the league forward with the best of what we’ve got.
“For now, we have only one arena but, as time goes on, we’ll start expanding to more venues and see how things go from there,” Amida told Sports247.
He went on to urge media outfits and personalities to come forward with partnership ideas that would move flag football to higher ground in Nigeria, even as he also reasoned that their affiliation to NIFAF has added new attractions to the sport.
Amida retorted, “Publicity for us is a never-ending game. We keep running after it every now and then, because we know its importance.
“We’ve been doing it from time-to-time, and we’ll keep doing it in order to improve the game. We really do love media coverage.
“So, we’ll keep partnering as much as possible. We hope that people in the media will come to watch our games, and we’ll keep pushing for more coverage in all directions that we can.”
He also noted that the recent affiliation of his group with NIFAF has not only brought unity into the Nigerian flag football sector, it has also opened the door for government recognition, with fresh sponsorship opportunities following.
