The Front Line Kids are an integral part of the Lombardi Award™ and, for 50 years, have attended the event as our special guests.

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It is a memorable time when our four finalists, the nation's top college linemen, and other celebrity athletes visit Texas Children's and MD Anderson Pediatric Cancer Centers.

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Thanks to fantastic progress in cancer research, overall survival rates for childhood leukemia are now 90% compared to less than 20% fifty years ago. However, other cancer survival rates remain low.