{"id":4327,"date":"2025-07-18T23:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T23:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/4327\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T23:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T23:02:10","slug":"maryland-youth-flag-football-team-heads-to-nfl-flag-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/4327\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland youth flag football team heads to NFL flag championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Some of the world&#8217;s best youth flag football players are competing for a championship this weekend, including a team from Waldorf. &#8220;What makes it so special is you take a homegrown kid, somebody who didn&#8217;t see this going past their county, and now they get to go out and represent for their local football team as a flag football player,&#8221; Jordan Reynolds said. Reynolds, general manager of Southern Maryland Youth Flag Football League, says it&#8217;s been rewarding to see youth flag football grow over the years, but what&#8217;s really taken him by surprise is how many young girls are embracing the sport. Over 800 kids participate in his league, with roughly 200 of them being young girls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some of the world&#8217;s best youth flag football players are competing for a championship this weekend, including a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,6095,6094,6096,593,85],"class_list":["post-4327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-flag-football","tag-football-players","tag-group-of-kids","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}