VIDEO: Charity game between NYPD and FDNY devolves into bench clearing brawl

On Sunday at Nassau Coliseum the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) and the New York City Police Department played their annual charity game. With the score knotted at three goals apiece, the two sides engaged in a classic bench clearing brawl:

Here's some footage closer to what we might accurately describe as the brouhaha: 

This is something straight out an episode of Rescue Me (though, hopefully, without some sort of drawn out infidelity angle).

The Police ultimately won the game by a final score of 8-5, snapping a five game losing streak against the Fire Fighters.

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