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By Steve Williams
The Battle in Rocky Top youth football tournament turned 15 years old this season and “it’s really grown,” said Josh Jones, who started the tourney in 2006.
Jones, a former longtime local youth coach who now is the quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator at Powell High, went on to call it the “largest youth football tournament in the United States” based on the most teams.
The tournament is played annually the weekend before Thanksgiving.
The inaugural tourney had 80 teams from 12 states. In 2019 it had quadrupled in size, with a field of 320 teams from 18 states.
“According to Visit Knoxville, the local tourism group, it’s an over $5 million economic impact to the local community,” said Jones.