Petersburg, Fla., started playing tackle football at 6 years old. He advises against that now, preferring kids play flag football until they learn the fundamentals of tackling in high school.

“We know they’ve got a lot of track stars there, but these kids just have a blast and it really changed their lives through playing flag football,” NFL global ambassador Phoebe Schecter said ...

Petersburg, Fla., started playing tackle football at 6 years old. He advises against that now, preferring kids play flag football until they learn the fundamentals of tackling in high school.

19,500 kids were playing flag football last year, and its hoped that by March next year that figure can balloon to 100,000, and over 500,000 by the beginning of 2027. Offord said that the NFL was ...

That includes everything from growing youth participation, from getting more opportunities for girls and boys to play flag football, working really closely with the clubs because they drive a lot ...

These are the ones their children — Macey McCutcheon and ... home from school one day with a bright idea: she wanted to play flag football. Lucky for the junior wide receiver, her mom was ...