If The First Academy’s football season ended on Friday night, it was a pretty incredible way to cap off a two-year stretch of turmoil and chaos.

TFA, banned from the playoffs for two seasons by the FHSAA, pulled off an incredible comeback to knock off Lakeland 35-28 in two overtimes. The victory could be the end of the season for the Royals, who would finish 5-5 if a last-ditch effort by TFA parents to get the team’s playoff eligibility reinstated turns out to be unsuccessful.

Darren Heitner, the lead attorney for Heitner Legal out of Fort Lauderdale, said Friday his firm has filed paperwork seeking an injunction , on behalf of TFA football players, to get the courts to force the FHSAA to lift its current playoff ban on the team.

TFA's eighth-grade quarterback Anthony Woods Jr., who i

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