A brawl broke out during an annual charity hockey game between New York City's police officers and firefighters on Sunday afternoon.

The incident occurred during the second period of the game. The refs jumped in the middle to stop the fight, but that proved to be a difficult task, as it took them 25 minutes to break up the whole thing.

The New York Post talked to an NYPD officer who said he’d never seen anything like it. “It was reminiscent of the old-time Rangers-Flyers games in the mid-70s... I was waiting for [legendary Philadelphia Flyers enforcer] Dave Schultz to come out on the ice,” said one NYPD cop who was at the game at Nassau Coliseum.

The players didn’t seem to be the only ones divided. During the struggle, fans in the stands stuck to their guns, with some of them chanting "FD sucks, FD sucks."

Luckily, no one was seriously injured in Sunday’s showdown. The NYPD went on to win the game 8-5.

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