{"id":47959,"date":"2025-05-13T23:15:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T23:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/47959\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T23:15:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T23:15:35","slug":"hermosa-beach-welcomes-beach-football-league-daily-breeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/47959\/","title":{"rendered":"Hermosa Beach welcomes Beach Football League \u2013 Daily Breeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Beach Football League is hoping to make a home in Hermosa Beach.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The Hermosa Beach event featured a high school tournament, exhibition adult flag and tackle games, and a kids zone.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Kids participate in tryouts and warm-ups at the Beach Football...\" class=\"size-article_inline\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>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)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Super Bowl champion Malik Jackson (left) and Los Angeles Rams...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TDB-L-BEACHFOOTBALL-0411-1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Los Angeles Chargers linebacker Denzel Perryman helps lead kids through...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TDB-L-BEACHFOOTBALL-0411-2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Los Angeles Chargers linebacker Denzel Perryman helps lead kids through...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TDB-L-BEACHFOOTBALL-0411-4-1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Super Bowl winner Malik Jackson helps lead kids through drills...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TDB-L-BEACHFOOTBALL-0411-13.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Super Bowl winner and BFL founder Tully Banta-Cain helps lead...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TDB-L-BEACHFOOTBALL-0411-7.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Los Angeles Chargers linebacker Denzel Perryman helps lead kids through...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TDB-L-BEACHFOOTBALL-0411-8.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Los Angeles Rams safety Quentin Lake helps lead kids through...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TDB-L-BEACHFOOTBALL-0411-9.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kids participate in tryouts and warm-ups at the Beach Football...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TDB-L-BEACHFOOTBALL-0411-10.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kids participate in tryouts and warm-ups at the Beach Football...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TDB-L-BEACHFOOTBALL-0411-17.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Super Bowl winner Malik Jackson helps lead kids through drills...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TDB-L-BEACHFOOTBALL-0411-15.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kids participate in tryouts and warm-ups at the Beach Football...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TDB-L-BEACHFOOTBALL-0411-14.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Super Bowl winner and BFL founder Tully Banta-Cain helps lead...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TDB-L-BEACHFOOTBALL-0411-6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Super Bowl champion Malik Jackson (right) and Los Angeles Rams...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TDB-L-BEACHFOOTBALL-0411-16.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Los Angeles Rams safety Quentin Lake helps lead kids through...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TDB-L-BEACHFOOTBALL-0411-12.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Los Angeles Rams safety Quentin Lake helps lead kids through...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TDB-L-BEACHFOOTBALL-0411-5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Los Angeles Chargers linebacker Denzel Perryman helps lead kids through...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TDB-L-BEACHFOOTBALL-0411-20.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Los Angeles Chargers linebacker Denzel Perryman helps lead kids through...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TDB-L-BEACHFOOTBALL-0411-19.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Super Bowl champion Tully Banta-Cain is bringing the Beach Football...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TDB-L-BEACHFOOTBALL-0410-6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Super Bowl champion Tully Banta-Cain is bringing the Beach Football League to Hermosa Beach on Saturday, May 10. (photo by Michael Hixon\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Super Bowl champion Tully Banta-Cain, pictured left, is bringing the...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TDB-L-BEACHFOOTBALL-0410-5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The newly formed Beach Football League will come to Hermosa...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TDB-L-BEACHFOOTBALL-0410-1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019Brien)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The newly formed Beach Football League will come to Hermosa...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TDB-L-BEACHFOOTBALL-0410-3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019Brien)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The newly formed Beach Football League will come to Hermosa...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TDB-L-BEACHFOOTBALL-0410-2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019Brien)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kids participate in tryouts and warm-ups at the Beach Football...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TDB-L-BEACHFOOTBALL-0411-11.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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)\n<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 24<\/p>\n<p>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)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailybreeze.com\/2025\/04\/09\/super-bowl-champ-brings-beach-football-to-south-bay\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Banta-Cain, now retired, was joined by multiple NFL<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>The idea for the BFL developed in 2021 when Banta-Cain and cofounder Adam Cyril lived in the South Bay.<\/p>\n<p>When Banta-Cain moved to the East Coast, they hosted the first official event in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/beachfootballleague.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">beachfootballleague.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: May 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM PDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Beach Football League is hoping to make a home in Hermosa Beach. 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