Members of the recreation department staff and area officials will team up Saturday to take on coaches of teams in the Selma Recreation Department’s youth football league.

The flag football game will take place at around 4 or 4:30 p.m., following a day of bowl games set at Memorial Stadium.

“I’m looking forward to that because the coaches are talking a lot of noise about what they are going to do to us,” said football director Terry Jackson. “I want to show them we have played the game just as they have played the game.”

The bowl games are set up so that teams in each age division can play another team for a quarter, giving every player a chance to get on the field in a jamboree atmosphere.

“That’ll tune them up for the playoffs for Monday,” Jackson said of the bowl games.

The only age group that won’t participate in bowl games is the 5-and 6-year-olds, who will start the playoffs on Saturday at 9 a.m.

Other age groups will start playoff games next week, with championship games set for Saturday, Nov. 20.

Jackson said only three undefeated teams remain going into the playoffs — the 49ers in the 11-and 12-year-old age range, the 9-and 10-year-old Bears and the 5-and-6 year old Jr. Dolphins.

“I’m expecting a nice crowd for Saturday because they usually come out for the bowl games,” Jackson said. “More people usually come out for the playoffs too.”

It’s been a good year for football, as only one night of games has been canceled due to weather. Jackson said he’s hoping the season ends before seasonally low temperatures hit the area, like it did last year during the playoffs.