American Youth Football (AYF) was established in 1996, as an international youth football organization that promotes the development of youth through their association with adult leaders in the sport of American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

. Rules and regulations are established to ensure that players are in a safe environment with a competitive balance between teams. The National Football League

National Football League

The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...

 (NFL) has made AYF a national youth football partner. The President of American Youth Football is Joe Galat

Joe Galat

Joe Galat was born in Painesville, Ohio and has extensive experience in professional football as a player, coach, general manager, broadcaster, and youth executive. He is best known as a former college and professional football coach who starred at Miami University as a player...

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AYF allows local members to govern themselves while remaining non-intrusive. AYF is a fast growing youth organization in America

United States

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 and in 12 years has reached 50 states and six countries with more than 500,000 documented participants. AYF admits everyone, regardless of financial capabilities, location, participation. AYF programs range from financial grants

Grant (money)

Grants are funds disbursed by one party , often a Government Department, Corporation, Foundation or Trust, to a recipient, often a nonprofit entity, educational institution, business or an individual. In order to receive a grant, some form of "Grant Writing" often referred to as either a proposal...

 to leagues who need help, shoes for kids programs sponsored by Nike

Nike, Inc.

Nike, Inc. is a major publicly traded sportswear and equipment supplier based in the United States. The company is headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, which is part of the Portland metropolitan area...

, field development in conjunction with FieldTurf

FieldTurf

FieldTurf is a brand of artificial turf playing surface. It is manufactured and installed by the FieldTurf Tarkett division of Tarkett Inc., based in Calhoun, Georgia, USA. In the late 1990s, the artificial surface changed the industry with a design intended to replicate real grass...

, and Rising Stars football camps which send inner-city kids to football camp.
There is a football leauge out in Washington called the West Coast Football Leauge.It was founded January 27,2009, by a wealthy man named Greg Jones.The league consists of 20 teams,each from a different area of the state.The first game took place on September 2,2009 between the Bremerton Colts and Poquoson Patriots.The Colts won the game 42-3 and continued on the entire season going 16-0 and winning the state championship.The passing leader for the season was the Colts Derek Johnson who passed for 4,563 yards and 36 touchdowns.The rushing leader was Santonio Green who rushed for 1,346 yards and 10 touchdowns.The receving leading was Quinn Meidel who had 155 receptions for 3,492 yards and 20 touchdowns.

Giving Back

With his time spent coaching and managing professional and college football teams, Galat volunteered some of his time to attend youth football league functions. When he became president of American Youth Football, Galat’s strategy was simple: change the rules and traditions of the game creating unlimited weight divisions and restrict older kids from playing younger age kids. The National Football League works with AYF as a National Youth Football Partner on making the game better for the kids. New England Patriots

New England Patriots

The New England Patriots, commonly called the "Pats", are a professional football team based in the Greater Boston area, playing their home games in the town of Foxborough, Massachusetts at Gillette Stadium. The team is part of the East Division of the American Football Conference in the National...

 wide receiver Randy Moss

Randy Moss

Randy Gene Moss is a former American football wide receiver. He was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in the first round of the 1998 NFL Draft...

 is also giving back to the game as a spokesperson for AYF. He has recently established a non-profit organization

Non-profit organization

Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...

 to help needy youth football programs buy new uniforms and equipment for youngsters.

“Randy is a true champion of our cause and has taken the mission of giving back into his own hands”, stated AYF President, Joe Gala

stepped up as a leader; his work is going to help a lot of kids.”

Randy Moss is not the only NFL player to contribute to youth football. Other NFL players that are involved with American Youth Football include Tedy Bruschi

Tedy Bruschi

Tedy Lacap Bruschi is a former professional American football linebacker. He was drafted by the New England Patriots in the third round of the 1996 NFL Draft...

, Adam Archuleta

Adam Archuleta

Adam Jason Archuleta is a former American football safety. He played college football at Arizona State, and was drafted by the St. Louis Rams 20th overall in the 2001 NFL Draft....

, Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila

Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila

Muhammed-Kabeer Olanrewaju Gbaja-Biamila , commonly referred to as "KGB", is an American football defensive end who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the fifth round of the 2000 NFL Draft...

, and Braylon Edwards

Braylon Edwards

-Cleveland Browns:-2005:Edwards began his rookie season as Cleveland's third wide receiver – he would have started higher, but a hold-out caused him to miss the beginning of training camp. Early in the season Edwards revealed that he had a staph infection, and missed a few weeks as a result of it....

, in addition to college football coach Pete Carroll

Pete Carroll

Peter Clay Carroll is the head coach and executive Vice-President of the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League. He is a former head coach of the New York Jets, New England Patriots and the University of Southern California Trojans football team.-Early life:Carroll attended Redwood High...

 and TV personality Cris Collinsworth

Cris Collinsworth

Anthony Cris Collinsworth is a former American college and professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League for eight seasons in the 1980s. He played college football for the University of Florida, and thereafter, he played his entire professional career for...

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Other nations

American tackle football is currently being played in Israel. For the first time ever, in 2007, Israeli players and teams are putting on the pads
and helmets to play American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 in a competitive league. This was made possible by the joint efforts of American Youth Football and
the league sponsor, FieldTurf. The teams in the league are located in Jerusalem (stadium is named the Kraft Family Stadium after Robert Kraft

Robert Kraft

Robert K. Kraft is an American business magnate. He is the Chairman and was the Chief Executive Officer of The Kraft Group, a diversified holding company with assets in paper and packaging, sports and entertainment, real estate development and a private equity portfolio...

, the New England Patriots owner), Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...

, Haifa

Haifa

Haifa is the largest city in northern Israel, and the third-largest city in the country, with a population of over 268,000. Another 300,000 people live in towns directly adjacent to the city including the cities of the Krayot, as well as, Tirat Carmel, Daliyat al-Karmel and Nesher...

 and the Sharon

Sharon

Sharon can be a female name which can be spelled with one "r" or two . It also refers to several places in the world.It derives from a Israelite place name meaning "forest" in Hebrew, referring to a fertile plain near the coast of Israel. This gives its name to a type of flowering shrub, the rose...

. American Youth Football has donated equipment for the kids to be able to play in the league.