Coach William Santell, a former coach for Blue Jay Football invented a game for the football players to challenge themselves in the off season. All that is needed is two tractor tires, a football and kids who want to play.

Santellball is a mixture of a few sports such as football, basketball and ultimate frisbee. The goal in Santellball is to score into the tire. You are allowed to take as many steps as you can take and it is two hand touch. Therefore, once you get touched you turn the ball over to the other team. Each team consists of runners and a goalie, if the ball is thrown to you and you catch it and you immediately stop moving, you will have five seconds to get rid of the ball or you will be tagged. But if you catch the ball and then start running then you are capable of being tagged. Another rule is when you run towards the tire and you jump into the goalie you will not be pronounced down. But the goalie can swat the ball away to not let the opposing team score. Usually each game is played to five and teams have to win by two. If one team had four points and the other had five, the team with five would have to score six to win that game.

Santellball has been around for a few years now and will hopefully stay alive for many Jackson-Milton Football players to come. A few seniors, Tyler Phillips, Steven Yuhasz, Marty Mckinney, Joe Burnside, and Justin Rentz try to play the game just about every day after school through rain, snow and whatever mother nature has to throw at them.