KISSISMMEE, Fla. — It’s a Monday evening in Kissimmee, and Joe Day Field is packed.  

“Stay tight to the cone — go!” Chad Mascoe senior yells to members of his 10-under football team. Mascoe is the head coach of this group and also a first-year commissioner of Osceola Kowboys youth sports.

“In Osceola County, youth football is the one thing that can make everybody get along,” Mascoe said.

Prior to this season, the county had two youth organizations: the CFA Mustangs and the Osceola Panthers.

“We had cousins on each team,” former CFA Mustangs President Dwight Pinellas said. “We might have a brother over here and a brother over here, things of that nature... We did it so we could bring the city together.”

“We finally decided we need to do what’s right for the kids in the community,” said Josh Day, former president of the Osceola Panthers. “So we said instead of playing against each other, let’s put them on the national stage playing together.”

Day and Pinellas are now co-presidents of the new organization, with Mascoe as commissioner.

“I think the benefit is for the kids to get to play together at the youth level and it transitions to the high school level,” Mascoe said.

Mascoe is also the new offensive coordinator of the high school team. One son, Chad Mascoe Jr., is the team's starting quarterback, and another son, Bo, is a starting defensive back.

“For the ones that end up at Osceola, I think it’s an advantage,” new Osceola varsity coach Eric Pinellas said. “You know the language they use for their offense is kind of the same that we still do offensively and defensively, so from that perspective, I think it’s an advantage.”

Football is life in Osceola County, but these men also want to make sure their youth know the importance of giving back.  July 24th and 25th the youth organization is putting on the Feed the Homeless Classic at Jones High School in Orlando.  40 teams are participating from Osceola to Jacksonville to Atlanta.  They are not charging fees for each team, they just ask that everyone bring a non-perishable item to donate.

“We just want to give back,” Mascoe said. “Everything can’t always be about collecting money we want to give back and we want to show these kids the art of giving back now so when they get older and we are dead and gone they can carry on the tradition and continue to give back in the community.”