![Eight-year-old Austin Little demonstrates his game face Monday after football practice. Little is one of approximately 400 kids to sign up for Coeur d'Alene Jr. Football this fall amid the COVID-19 pandemic. "With everything that’s happened this year," Caitlin Hazard, Austin's mother, told The Press, he needs football to have some normalcy." (CRAIG NORTHRUP/Press)](https://hagadone.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/1017480954%20Austin%20Game%20Face_t1170.jpg?5cc718665ab672dba93d511ab4c682bb370e5f86)
Eight-year-old Austin Little demonstrates his game face Monday after football practice. Little is one of approximately 400 kids to sign up for Coeur d'Alene Jr. Football this fall amid the COVID-19 pandemic. "With everything that’s happened this year," Caitlin Hazard, Austin's mother, told The Press, he needs football to have some normalcy." (CRAIG NORTHRUP/Press)
August 20, 2020
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