Editing Flint, Michigan (section)

===American football===
There is [[Semi-professional|semi-pro]] football at Atwood Stadium with the Flint Fury. Atwood is an 11,000+ seat stadium in downtown Flint which has hosted many events, including baseball. When [[artificial turf]] was installed, it was no longer able to host baseball games.{{why|date=March 2016}} The Flint Fury have been in action since 2003, and are currently a part of the [[Great Lakes Football League]]. The team was founded by two of its players; Charles Lawler and Prince Goodson, who both played for the defunct Flint Falcons semi-pro team. The team is now solely owned by Lawler.

The 2009 [[Heisman Trophy]] winner [[Mark Ingram II]], born and raised in Grand Blanc, attended his final year of high school at Flint Southwestern Academy. He won the Heisman with 1304 total votes. Ingram attended the [[University of Alabama]] and is their first Heisman winner. He was a member of the National Champion [[2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team]].