Flag football received a ratings boost Tuesday night thanks in part to the Arizona Cardinals.

The Cardinals became the first NFL team to broadcast and fully produce a girls high school flag football game, doing so at The Swamp, the home of the Xavier Prep Gators. Arizona’s Family Sports televised Xavier’s game against Hamilton to kick off their season and the Cardinals’ Game of the Week flag telecasts.

Arizona Cardinals tight end Trey McBride did the coin toss honors to help kick off the flag football season. (Jose Garcia photo/AZPreps365) 

The talented and entertaining play-by-play team of the Cardinals, Dave Pasch and Ron Wolfley, called the game along with sideline reporter Dani Sureck. Year 2 of the Arizona Interscholastic Association’s flag football season is surely off to a roaring start.

Ron Wolfley and Dave Pasch were perched up high at The Swamp, the home of the Xavier Prep Gators. (Jose Garcia photo/AZPreps365) “It’s amazing,” Xavier coach Michael Patterson said. “The atmosphere was cool. The Cardinals brought everything out for us. It was great. It was fun. What an honor. (Xavier Prep athletic director) Sister Lynn was so happy we made history. We take it as a win.”

The owner of the Arizona Cardinals, Michael Bidwill, attended Tuesday's game. Bidwill congratulated Hamilton and Xavier for making history. (Jose Garcia photo/AZPreps365)

Xavier’s young and inexperienced team (Fourteen of the 26 players are new.) hosted a program that featured one of the nation's elite flag players, junior wide receiver Samaya Taylor-Jenkins.

The Hamilton Huskies scored on every first half possession en route to a 48-14 victory. Taylor-Jenkins scored four touchdowns, including a pick-6, and was rewarded with a postgame big hat for her big game.

Hamilton's Samaya Taylor-Jenkins (Jose Garcia photo/AZPreps365)

“(Taylor-Jenkins) is such a playmaker, and she is just someone who is so reliable,” Hamilton quarterback Marlie Phillips said. “I couldn’t have asked for more out of her.”

In her varsity debut, Phillips had herself a game as well.

Only a freshman, Phillips showed off her poise and strong right arm on a couple of downfield throws.

She finished the night with five touchdown passes to three different receivers.

"I’ve been playing football for eight years,” the freshman said. “I’ve been watching Hamilton, and I decided last year that’s the school that I want to be at. That’s the school I want to make a 6A champion.”

Hamilton quarterback Marlie Phillips did a great job of directing traffic during her team's victory. (Jose Garcia photo/AZPreps365)