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It's the culmination of three months of hard work, games and effort. This is why the lights will be burning bright Wednesday night at Lampson. I think our little Harley has her game face on as will the rest of all the players, and is ready.

Over the years, we've heard and seen the occasional story about a girl who plays football. A few years back, a kicker for the Willamette University Bearcats near Portland became the first female to kick a field goal and extra point in a college game. It's been done in high school. But right here in the Tri-Cities, there's girls playing all sorts of positions, including quarterback.

During last nights Kennewick Grid Kids Super Bowl games at Neil F. Lampson stadium,   the Kennewick Grid Kid Cheerleaders made a great donation to the Tri Cities Cancer Center Foundation. (Photo courtesy of Kennewick Grid Kids website)

If you enjoy watching kids pour their hearts into a sporting event, and exciting action under the lights,  tonight marks the annual Kennewick Grid Kids Super Bowl games at Lampson stadium.

Who needs million-dollar overpaid athletes, when you can watch youth football leaving it all on the field?

Never mind the idea girls aren't supposed to play football!

Kids wanting to be just like their athletic heroes is nothing new, but a Pop Warner football coach emulating the New Orleans Saints' "Bountygate" program, where players were paid extra to injure members of the other team? That's a twist. A very upsetting twist, if you ask the parents of the 10- and 11-year-olds who got the short end of this deal. Reports made earlier last week allege tha

It's not just college, NFL and high school football that's back -- the 'little' folks are hitting the fields, too.