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VERO BEACH — Finally, they picked it. On the Your Call Football app, it’s simply titled, “Pass: WR PASS TO QB.” I had picked the play every time the option was given during Thursday’s night’s game at Historic Dodgertown, but this was the first time the other fans playing the game agreed with me.

Montgomery native KD Humphries is part of a new pro football league that feeds into a fan’s belief that he or she knows more than the coaches. Your Call Football gives fans an opportunity to call plays for cash prizes. The games are played at Historic Dodgertown in Vero Beach, Florida, but you don’t have to be there to play.

If you listen to postgame radio call-in shows, it is clear many football fans believe they would do a better job calling plays than the coaches of their favorite teams. Now, thanks to 21st Century technology and a new start-up football concern, fans can walk their talk by calling the plays in real-live football games.

On July 13, 1980, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported on the big news the previous night: Fans used cable boxes tethered to their TVs to call the offensive and defensive plays of a semi-professional football game between the Columbus (Ohio) Metros and the Racine (Wisconsin) Gladiators.

For all the talk of new football leagues launching in coming years, little attention has been paid to one already in its first training camp with two teams featuring roughly 90 players, including past Super Bowl winners: Your Call Football, in which fans call the plays through a mobile app.

With the growing popularity of eSports and video games, could the future of professional sports incorporate a combination of both? Leagues are in search of innovative ways to increase fan interaction and appeal to a younger generation. Your Call Football (YCF) has the technology to embrace the modernization of sports. YCF president, Julie Meringer, and former ESPN analyst, Merril Hoge (Q&A listed below), spoke exclusively to Barrett Sports Media about the new venture.

Some dreams never die. Just ask Bernard Pierce. “Just because you’ve reached a goal doesn’t mean you should give up on your dreams,” he told me the other day at Historic Dodgertown. “I want to be able to leave on my terms. I don’t want to have somebody else tell me, ‘Oh, he can do this or he can’t do that.' "

Your Call Football announced the on-air talent for its inaugural competitions on May 3, 10 and 17. The YCF on-air lineup will include former NFL cornerback and Super Bowl champion Jabari Greer, FOX Sports’ Jennifer Hale and Justin Kutcher, and veteran producer Joe Whelan.

NEWTON, Mass. - Your Call Football (YCF), the gaming technology startup behind the innovative, fan-controlled, live play-calling game, begins preseason today at Historic Dodgertown in Vero Beach, Fla. – just four weeks before fans, for the first time, get to call the offensive plays in real, live football games.