Celebrity Sons Teamed Up for Entertaining Football Games

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., Dec. 15, 2009— -- Seconds into Friday's championship game between two 13-0 teams, quarterback Montana threw a spiraling, 73-yard Hail Mary down the wet field. It was a touchdown.

Legendary San Francisco 49ers quarterback Joe Montana clapped calmly in the bleachers as the crowd around him went wild. His son, Nick Montana of Oaks Christian School in Westlake Village, Calif., had just started the rainy Northwest Division high school finals off with a bang.

Camera flashes popped around the spitting image of his father.

"I've gotten used to the media attention," said Nick, the 6-foot-3, 195-pound senior who is headed to the University of Washington on a football scholarship next year.

"I guess it's a little more comforting having Trevor and Trey out there with me. Especially Trey. He gets most of the attention because of the movies and stuff."

Trey is Trey Smith, 17, the son of actor Will Smith. Trevor is Trevor Gretzky, 17, the son of NHL Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky.

The sons of two of the greatest athletes of all time and one of the most recognizable actors of this generation played side-by-side this year on the same high school football team.

Their dads' presence often created a game-time buzz that threatened to overshadow or, at least, distract the sons who have enough trouble navigating their place in a world full of non-celebrity offspring.

"One celebrity kid on one team is one thing," said Julie Albright, a sociologist at the University of Southern California. "A constellation of three celebrity kids on one team means their stars shine pretty bright."

While some people have nicknamed Oaks Christian "Hollywood High" because of the trio of famous football fathers, the boys didn't quite understand what all the hubbub was about, insisting that their families were just like any others in the stands.

"I guess some people are star-struck a little bit but my dad is a normal dad and we're just normal kids," Nick, 17, said of his eight-time Pro Bowler father who won four Super Bowls, three of them as most valuable player.

Oaks Christian School is a private, non-denominational school that's an hour's drive from Hollywood. Tuition is just under $30,000 a year.

Its 10-year-old football team has won six district championships and boasts 120 victories, 12 losses and one tie.