Even if you’re years beyond your prime and walked away from the game decades ago, Gridiron Alumni is looking to give you one more shot to lace up the cleats and pop some pads.

Based out of California, Gridiron Alumni Football travels the nation providing full-contact football games for alumni of area high schools, and is potentially eyeing a trip to Selma.

Chris Hall, owner and senior event coordinator of Gridiron Alumni, said his company gives former players who didn’t make it to the next level after high school or college one more chance to put on the pads.

“It’s a company that I started in 2010, and what we do is we travel across the nation giving guys a chance to play football one more time,” Hall said. “Almost every sport you play in high school, when you’re done with it you can transition to a similar sport. Like if you play basketball, you can go play city-league basketball, if you play baseball you can go to softball.

There’s no way for people who play football to keep playing football. There are semi-pro leagues and stuff like that, but a lot of people don’t want to commit to 10 to 12 games a year, so this way they play one game.”

Since its founding, Gridiron Alumni has held games in California, Louisiana and Georgia, and is looking to hold games this year in Louisiana, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, California and Nevada.

Hall said there’s a possibility an alumni game will be played in Selma and anyone interested in an alumni football game happening in Selma can sign up at gridironalumni.com, but first there needs to be interest and at least two teams with 25 players on each.

“If they go to the website and sign up, that’s the best way to do it,” Hall said.

“That’s how we start building our list, that’s how we kind of like spread the word even further. The other thing I’d tell people to do is be active about it. If they want to play, they’ve got to start calling people (who also want to play).”

Hall said there’s no age limit on who can play and the safety of players is a top priority.

“We don’t put limits on the age because we kind of let people decide for themselves how healthy they are,” Hall said. “It’s 18 and up as far as we’re concerned. We’ve had guys that are 77 years old that just want to go in for one play and we’ve had a guy in California who was 60 years old and played defensive line the entire game.”

Hall said players are required to be alumni of schools in the area in order to prevent teams from bringing in ringers (players from outside the area brought in for the purpose of gaining an advantage), but there is an exception for players Hall calls transplants—players who live in the area due to having raised a family there, but did not attend school there.

Hall said he would like to know if anyone in Selma is interested in an alumni football game within the next two weeks because a game date would have to be set for about six weeks after that.

“We’re looking for games in March and April, so we kind of need guys to sign up in the next couple of weeks because we like to give them six weeks at least just to run around because some of these guys haven’t been off the couch in a while,” Hall said. “Once they get a team of 25 on each side we set a date and we try to set it six weeks away. The goal is to make it an annual thing. If people have a good time this year, they’ll want to do it again next year.”