I don’t know about other parts of the country...but there is no shortage of youth playing organized football here.
Same around here. Friday night HS football is a big deal in my part of PA. Local TV and radio stations broadcast the games, there are traffic jams. In the town square of the little Lancaster County town I work in, they put posters of the local HS football team players on the street light posts, most of the players are white FWIW. The first time I drove through town and saw one of the posters, I thought it was a missing child poster, then I saw another and another.. : )