Arizona Cardinals First NFL Team To Broadcast Girls Flag Football Games

The Arizona Cardinals Football Club, State Farm and Arizona’s Family unveil a new partnership that will bring the ‘Cardinals High School Girls Flag Football Game of the Week presented by State Farm . ’ This will be the first time an NFL team will air high school girls flag football games on a weekly basis.

A family sports channel in Arizona will broadcast eight games this season beginning Tuesday, September 17 when Hamilton (Chandler) High School face Xavier (Phoenix) High School at 7:00 PM. The rest of the games will be played on Tuesday or Thursday night, until November 7.

Every match-up will be a live, fully staged ninety minutes game broadcast featuring play-by-play, analysis, sideline reporting and will be on AZFS, Arizona’s Family Sports. Matches will also be rebroadcast in Arizona’s Family Sports on Satellites each period of the season. AZFS is a broadcast sports network on a statewide basis in Arizona and this started in March 2023. AZFS highlights are watched with the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals and the High School Championships sponsored by the Arizona Interscholastic Association; it is a station that can be viewed locally through the network’s over-the-air signal as well as through cable, satellite and online live stream facilities throughout the state of Arizona.

“We are glad to be working with State Farm and AZ’s Family to bring this largest platform for young talented girls in high school flag football in Arizona,” said Michael Bidwill, Cardinals owner. The game of flag football has literally grown out of control not only in our state and definitely in our country but throughout the entire world As an organization, we are proud to be able to fuel the interest even more and to bring attention to those athletes who compete at such a high level right in our own back yard.

“We are quite convinced that local sports are the binding factors for any community,” said Debbie Bush, Vice President, and General Manager of Arizona’s Family. “This chance makes it possible for us to draw everyone’s attention to young women in different Arizona cities who are real pioneers in the sport of the flag football while motivating some new generation girls to start playing the game too. We are blessed that the Arizona Cardinals and State Farm make it possible for the girls to have equal chance on the field.

“Being part of Cardinals girls flag football game of the week is the best thing ever,” said Samaya Taylor-Jenkins, of Hamilton H. S the 2023 Arizona Cardinals Girls Flag Football Offensive Player of the Year. I believe all the girls deserve this kind of achievement and given how fast our sport is developing, we take any and all attention and popularisation with open arms, The Cardinals have done more than they can imagine in helping make flag Football what it is today by hosting events and just making it seem so special to be a part of The first-ever OPOY award I received was such a privilege and next, our games will be aired live on TV –

”We at the AIA are grateful once again to be partnered with the Arizona Cardinals together with Arizona’s Family and State Farm for this effort to highlight girl’s flag football within the state,” expressed David Hines, Director of the Arizona Interscholastic Association (AIA). “For select games of the week to be aired across the states, it is a great opportunity that can help these tremendous female athletes be recognized affair We cannot thank the Cardinals enough for their support which has been greatly instrumental in the exponential growth of girls flag football in the state of Arizona. ”