{"id":573198,"date":"2023-01-25T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=573198"},"modified":"2023-02-04T08:54:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T08:54:13","slug":"nfl-sanctioned-flag-football-league-has-planted-its-flag-in-sarasota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/nfl-sanctioned-flag-football-league-has-planted-its-flag-in-sarasota","title":{"rendered":"NFL-sanctioned flag football league has planted its flag in Sarasota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SARASOTA &#8211; They&#8217;re close enough that letters in their names form Sarasota&#8217;s entry into flag football with the backing of the NFL.But should the BFL Flag Football League succeed, Mike Bruno and Ian Fydell just may become BFFs.&#8221;It all starts here (for future players),&#8221; said Bruno, one of the league&#8217;s co-owners with the wife of Fydell, who serves on the board. The two coached flag football in New York, moved to the area, and decided to start a league in Sarasota under the auspices of NFL FLAG, the official flag football program of the NFL.With more than 500,000 youths playing on close to 1,700 team in all 50 states, NFL FLAG in the largest youth flag football league in the country. It&#8217;s also the only league in which players can wear official NFL gear. But NFL FLAG mandates that at least 10 miles separate individual leagues; with sanctioned leagues already operating in Bradenton, Lakewood Ranch and Venice, Bruno and Fydell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SARASOTA &#8211; They&#8217;re close enough that letters in their names form Sarasota&#8217;s entry into flag football with the backing of the NFL. But should the BFL Flag Football League succeed,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nfl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}