When they both began their college careers, the two made sure to encourage one another with quick text messages here and there.

"We'd just tell each other to keep it going," Singletary said. "Being from the same area we'd keep up with each other."

"All we'd say to each other was to ball out," said Jackson. "We knew what each other was capable of, so that's all we'd really tell each other to do was ball out."

Jackson did that with much greater fanfare and media attention at Louisville, winning a Heisman Trophy in the process. Singletary meanwhile, set school records at Florida Atlantic.

Now 13 years later the two South Florida football products face one another on an NFL field, something neither of them imagined back at the age of nine.

"I can't even tell you that it ever crossed my mind that this would happen," said Jackson. "We had a lot of the same friends and some had the same kind of ability. And we thought a lot of them would make it. So to see us as the only two playing in the league right now, I would've never thought that."

"It's definitely all a part of God's plan for sure," Singletary said.

So coming off that nip-and-tuck game back in 2006, what would be the perfect outcome for the rematch? For those that know them from back home they'd like to be reminded of the youth football days.

"We want to come up with the 'W' definitely," said Singletary's mother. "But I would like to see them play the game that I watched them play in the past, where they're going back and forth. Both of them doing great and having a great game. I'd like to see both of their athletic abilities on display and the competition between both of them that I remember seeing all those years ago."