The ‘future of football’ was in the Bay Area last week. It wasn’t the Super Bowl.

SAN FRANCISCO — Inside the same convention center where Steve Jobs unveiled some of Apple’s latest and greatest inventions, a public address announcer came over the speaker system last week and declared, “What you just watched is the future of football.”

Whether or not flag football becomes as ubiquitous as the iPhone, one of the country’s fastest-growing sports was front and center during Super Bowl week in the Bay Area.

Team Pink's Gigi Torres (5) of Manteca High, celebrates her...