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The regular season is winding down for the Palo Alto Knights' football program, but that doesn't mean the players are getting ready to put away their equipment. In fact, all five teams are headed to the playoffs.

The Knights will wrap up the regular season on Sunday at Palo Alto High with a slate of five games against the Oakland Dynamites, starting at 9 a.m.

The Cadets head into their finale with a 4-3 record, the Jr. Pee Wee team is 5-2, the Pee Wee squad is 5-2, while the Jr. Midgets are 4-3 and the Unlimited squad is 7-0.

This is the first season that Palo Alto has offered an "unlimited" All-American team with mostly eighth graders and a few ninth-grade students. The team has 23 players with its offensive line averaging 240 pounds. In addition to being 7-0, the Knights have allowed only four touchdowns.

The Palo Alto Unlimited team will enter the playoffs as the No. 1 seed and the favorite to advance to the National Championships in Orlando, Fla..

The first round of the playoffs will be at Palo Alto High on Sunday Oct. 30.

Stanford football great James Lofton, a 2003 Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee, will host an autograph session on Friday to help benefit the Palo Alto Knights' youth football team.

Lofton will sign items at the AT&T Wireless store at 2825 El Camino Real from 5-8 p.m. during an ESPN Tailgate party. The event will include ESPN Radio, the XBox 360 Kinect booth, free food, games, and a chance to win great prize.

Attendees will have a chance to enter a raffle for a chance to win an X-Box 360 system w/ Kinect! (you need to be present to enter). Visit www.touchdowninparadise.com for more information and enter for a chance to win an all-expense paid vacation to Hawaii.

— Palo Alto Online Sports

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