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Now playing at Metlife Stadium

| 21 Dec 2014 | 03:18
    Warwick Youth Football Division 1 offense in purple facing off against the D1 defense in gold with members of the Washington football team watching the action.
    Warwick Youth Football Division 1 offense in purple facing off against the D1 defense in gold with members of the Washington football team watching the action.
    Warwick Youth Football Mighty Mites offense in gold running a play against the Mighty Mites defense in purple as Josh Brown, the New York Giants' place kicker, cheers them on.
    Warwick Youth Football Mighty Mites offense in gold running a play against the Mighty Mites defense in purple as Josh Brown, the New York Giants' place kicker, cheers them on.
    The Mighty Mite offense as seen on the stadium's "Jumbotron."
    The Mighty Mite offense as seen on the stadium's "Jumbotron."

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Imagine you're a youngster between the age of six and eight and you're an enthusiastic football fan and team member in Warwick Youth Football.

Then imagine you and your teammates have been invited to head down to Metlife Stadium to play the halftime show for the Giants-Washington game.

But that was no daydream. It really happened.

On Sunday, Dec. 14, at the invitation of the New York Football Giants, 49 of Warwick's youngest youth football players, six to eight year-olds from the Mighty Mite and Division 1 teams, boarded a bus outside the Warwick Valley Middle School.

And later that afternoon they were scrimmaging on the Metlife Stadium field during half time at the Giants-Washington game.

Two exhibition scrimmages took place with the Mighty Mites playing in one end zone and Division 1 playing in the other end zone at the same time.

"We had been preparing for this all season, but most notably in the previous 10 days as information from the Giants started to flow through," said Geoffrey Green, one of the head coaches.

He explained that the other head coach, Dr. Dominick Berlingieri, arranged for this opportunity through a friend who works at in the Giants organization.

Warwick Youth Football and Cheerleading is an affiliate of the Orange County Youth Football League, and as such, follows National Federation of High Schools and Section 9 football rules with some age appropriate modifications or exceptions to these rules.