TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Bragging rights are staying with Tallahassee firefighters for another year after a flag football showdown against the Tallahassee Police Department drew a big community crowd.<\/p>\n
The Tallahassee Fire Department said it beat the City of Tallahassee Police Department and will keep the trophy for another year. \u201cGreat game against City of Tallahassee Police Department and an even better crowd,\u201d TFD said, thanking \u201ceveryone who came out, along with our sponsors, vendors, community partners, and the Rickards High School band and cheerleading team for helping make it a great day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tallahassee police also thanked supporters after the rivalry game, saying, \u201cTPD hit the field against TFD today for another flag football showdown!\u201d Police said they did not win this year, adding, \u201cWe may not have brought home the win this year, but that just adds a little more fuel to the fire for next year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Both departments highlighted community support and participation from Rickards High School. TPD thanked \u201cour sponsors, the announcer Greg Tish and the Rickards High School drum line and cheerleaders for bringing the energy,\u201d along with residents who attended.<\/p>\n
TFD summed up the result simply: \u201cWe\u2019ll hang on to the trophy for another year. The rivalry continues!\u201d TPD added, \u201cEnjoy the win, TFD. We\u2019ll see y\u2019all next year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Bragging rights are staying with Tallahassee firefighters for another year after a flag football showdown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-399429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399429","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=399429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}