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FILE – Ashlea Klam, right, tries to evade a defender during a training session for her flag football team at Keiser University in West Palm Beach, Fla., Nov. 30, 2023.

Quincy Williams and his neighborhood buddies would get together and play football games wherever they had some room to run while growing up in Birmingham, Alabama.

Williams has since been living out his childhood dream in the NFL as a playmaking linebacker for the New York Jets , an example for the kids now playing on those fields. And he's excited that girls — maybe someday even his young daughter — are finding increasing opportunities to play football.

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“When I was younger, we had females who wanted t

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