The Beach Football League is hoping to make a home in Hermosa Beach.
And on Saturday, May 10, two-time Super Bowl champion Tully Banta-Cain, who spent six seasons playing for the New England Patriots, brought the newly formed league to the sand with a daylong event on The Strand.
The Hermosa Beach event featured a high school tournament, exhibition adult flag and tackle games, and a kids zone.
Kids participate in tryouts and warm-ups at the Beach Football League event at Hermosa Beach, CA on May 10th, 2025. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)
Super Bowl champion Malik Jackson (left) and Los Angeles Rams safety Quentin Lake (right) help lead kids through drills at the Beach Football League event at Hermosa Beach, CA on May 10th, 2025. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)
Los Angeles Chargers linebacker Denzel Perryman helps lead kids through drills at the Beach Football League event at Hermosa Beach, CA on May 10th, 2025. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)
Los Angeles Chargers linebacker Denzel Perryman helps lead kids through drills at the Beach Football League event at Hermosa Beach, CA on May 10th, 2025. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)
Super Bowl winner Malik Jackson helps lead kids through drills at the Beach Football League event at Hermosa Beach, CA on May 10th, 2025. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)
Super Bowl winner and BFL founder Tully Banta-Cain helps lead kids through drills at the Beach Football League event at Hermosa Beach, CA on May 10th, 2025. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)
Los Angeles Chargers linebacker Denzel Perryman helps lead kids through drills at the Beach Football League event at Hermosa Beach, CA on May 10th, 2025. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)
Los Angeles Rams safety Quentin Lake helps lead kids through drills at the Beach Football League event at Hermosa Beach, CA on May 10th, 2025. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)
Kids participate in tryouts and warm-ups at the Beach Football League event at Hermosa Beach, CA on May 10th, 2025. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)
Kids participate in tryouts and warm-ups at the Beach Football League event at Hermosa Beach, CA on May 10th, 2025. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)
Super Bowl winner Malik Jackson helps lead kids through drills at the Beach Football League event at Hermosa Beach, CA on May 10th, 2025. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)
Kids participate in tryouts and warm-ups at the Beach Football League event at Hermosa Beach, CA on May 10th, 2025. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)
Super Bowl winner and BFL founder Tully Banta-Cain helps lead kids through drills at the Beach Football League event at Hermosa Beach, CA on May 10th, 2025. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)
Super Bowl champion Malik Jackson (right) and Los Angeles Rams safety Quentin Lake (middle) help lead kids through drills at the Beach Football League event at Hermosa Beach, CA on May 10th, 2025. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)
Los Angeles Rams safety Quentin Lake helps lead kids through drills at the Beach Football League event at Hermosa Beach, CA on May 10th, 2025. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)
Los Angeles Rams safety Quentin Lake helps lead kids through drills at the Beach Football League event at Hermosa Beach, CA on May 10th, 2025. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)
Los Angeles Chargers linebacker Denzel Perryman helps lead kids through drills at the Beach Football League event at Hermosa Beach, CA on May 10th, 2025. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)
Los Angeles Chargers linebacker Denzel Perryman helps lead kids through drills at the Beach Football League event at Hermosa Beach, CA on May 10th, 2025. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)
Super Bowl champion Tully Banta-Cain is bringing the Beach Football League to Hermosa Beach on Saturday, May 10. (photo by Michael Hixon/SCNG)
Super Bowl champion Tully Banta-Cain, pictured left, is bringing the Beach Football League to Hermosa Beach on Saturday, May 10. Banta-Cain is pictured April 4, 2025, next to the Hermosa Beach Pier with Hermosa Beach Councilmember Raymond Jackson, BFL co-founder Adam Cyril and BFL business development intern Robert Isetta. (photo by Michael Hixon/SCNG)
The newly formed Beach Football League will come to Hermosa Beach on Saturday, May 10, 2025. The first official league event, pictured, took place in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, in 2024. (photo courtesy Beach Football League/Rachel O’Brien)
The newly formed Beach Football League will come to Hermosa Beach on Saturday, May 10, 2025. The first official league event, pictured, took place in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, in 2024. (photo courtesy Beach Football League/Rachel O’Brien)
The newly formed Beach Football League will come to Hermosa Beach on Saturday, May 10, 2025. The first official league event, pictured, took place in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, in 2024. (photo courtesy Beach Football League/Rachel O’Brien)
Kids participate in tryouts and warm-ups at the Beach Football League event at Hermosa Beach, CA on May 10th, 2025. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)
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Kids participate in tryouts and warm-ups at the Beach Football League event at Hermosa Beach, CA on May 10th, 2025. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)
Banta-Cain, now retired, was joined by multiple NFL players, including Quentin Lake and Neville Gallimore from the Los Angeles Rams; Denzel Perryman and Shawne Merriman from the Los Angeles Chargers; and other Super Bowl champions with the Denver Broncos, T.J. Ward and Malik Jackson.
The idea for the BFL developed in 2021 when Banta-Cain and cofounder Adam Cyril lived in the South Bay.
When Banta-Cain moved to the East Coast, they hosted the first official event in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, in 2024.
Now the BFL has eight approved locations, beginning with Hermosa Beach. Other locations will follow, including Wildwood, New Jersey; Santa Cruz; Oceanside; Coney Island, New York; Newport, Rhode Island; Hampton Beach; and the American Dream mall in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
For more information, visit beachfootballleague.com.
Originally Published: May 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM PDT