Originally conducted in Sacramento, California for a single year in 1987, the Western Division of the NYFC was moved to its permanent home of Las Vegas, Nevada the following year and has remained there ever since. At the urging of several teams who attended the event from California and other western states, SNI began the National Youth Football Championships - Western Division in 1987. Both the football and cheer competitions were over-full each year and many quality football teams were being turned away. SNI then moved its main event venue to Daytona Beach in late 1982, bringing the NYFC football competition to the mid-sized beach town.Īfter several more years, the NYFC event had exploded to maintain roughly 90 football teams annually. The number of teams literally exploded and within one short year, SNI soon found itself without the facilities it needed to expand. THE MODERN ERA BEGINS - In 1982, SNI moved the NYFC to Cocoa Beach, Florida and changed the name of the competition to the now familiar National Youth Football Championships (at the "urging" of the NFL!) This move was a turning point in the event. SNI felt certain the future of the event should be built around a smaller beach city where attendees could come and have a wonderful, beach family vacation weekend, play in the ocean for free and then travel to the nearby theme parks if they wished. Around this same time, many of our teams felt the event had lost something moving to such a large city as Orlando. The event grew rapidly to host roughly 20-24 teams. Also, the name of the event was changed to be the National Junior Super Bowl. SNI decided to move the event to Orlando, Florida in 1979 to ensure all of the attendees could easily find a place to stay. With few hotels located in then tiny Plantation, Florida. Sports Network International was truly begun around this time to handle the rising costs associated with producing this enormous youth football competition. The growth of the event both honored and humbled our founders. The number & quality of fields, officials and hours of set-up needed to host this competition was growing. The Little Yankee Bowl competition hosted 8-12 teams each year as more and more teams continued to spread the word about the fantastic football weekend. Named the Little Yankee Bowl, that early four-team football tournament formed the humble beginnings of the National Youth Football Championships. That initial competitions held in 1972 was played on two dirt baseball diamonds marked out as football fields with four youth football organizations attending from Alabama, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Florida. SNI BACKGROUND - Begun in 1972 in Plantation, Florida, a small group of Optimist International members decided to work together to host several Northern youth football teams to play Thanksgiving youth football bowl games in a warm, sunny climate. Working with the four branches of the military as civilian contractors for some of their biggest high school athletic competitions, as well as serving as the event manager for the largest single-seekend football spectacular in large cities from coast to coast, SNI maintains its headquarters facility in sunny Daytona Beach, Florida. Over the past four decades, SNI has grown to become one of the oldest & most prestigious companies in North America involved in the production of national sports and sports-related competitions for youth. (SNI) began as a small, family run company organized with the intent of producing first-class, youth athletic competitions throughout the United States. INTRODUCTION - Sports Network International, Inc.
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