The last sport to move through the program was women’s wrestling, which was approved last month to be the NCAA's 91st championship sport.

“I certainly could envision on both the men’s and women’s side, if you wanted to sort of think into the future, every NFL team has their own men’s and women’s flag team that perhaps plays in the offseason and uses some of the branding of the parent team,” Hunt said from the site of the Super Bowl.

Goodell also spoke on a potential 18-game season, electronic first downs, Tom Brady and other topics Monday at his Super Bowl news conference.