{"id":397381,"date":"2026-09-11T23:36:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T23:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/397381\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T23:36:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T23:36:22","slug":"tpd-and-tfd-set-to-face-off-at-battle-of-the-badges-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/397381\/","title":{"rendered":"TPD and TFD set to face off at Battle of the Badges Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTH TALLAHASSEE, FL (WTXL) \u2014 The Tallahassee Fire Department is looking to defend its title against Tallahassee Police Department at the third annual Battle of the Badges Flag Football Game.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH FULL REPORT BELOW:<\/p>\n<p>TPD and TFD set to face off again at the third annual Battle of the Badges Saturday<\/p>\n<p>Tallahassee police and firefighters will go head-to-head in a flag football game Saturday at Gene Cox Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Gates open at 10:45 a.m., and kickoff is set for 11:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The event not only gives one responder group bragging rights over another but represents unity and their commitment to protecting and serving the community.<\/p>\n<p>The event is free to the public and will feature food trucks and a live DJ.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Want to see more local news? Visit the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTXL ABC 27 Website. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wtxlabc27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Instagram <\/a>and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abc27\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTH TALLAHASSEE, FL (WTXL) \u2014 The Tallahassee Fire Department is looking to defend its title against Tallahassee Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[242,16819,509,6286,80129,16822,39890,232,9251,16817,234,233,6049],"class_list":["post-397381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-abc-27","tag-battle-of-the-badges","tag-big-bend","tag-first-responders","tag-flag-football","tag-gene-cox-stadium","tag-south-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-events","tag-tallahassee-fire-department","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-tallahassee-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}