{"id":11968,"date":"2009-01-28T15:55:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T22:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=11968"},"modified":"2015-08-17T14:35:32","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T21:35:32","slug":"u-bet-haeger-wagers-on-cardinals-victory-with-pa-counterpart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/u-bet-haeger-wagers-on-cardinals-victory-with-pa-counterpart\/","title":{"rendered":"U bet: Haeger wagers on Cardinals victory with Pa. counterpart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAU President\u00a0<strong>John Haeger<\/strong>\u00a0has entered into a friendly wager with Saint Vincent College President Jim Towey over the outcome of this weekend&#8217;s Super Bowl game in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>The game pits the Arizona Cardinals against the Pittsburgh Steelers. NAU has hosted the Cardinals&#8217; summer training camp since the team arrived in Arizona in 1988. The Steelers have called Saint Vincent home since 1966.<\/p>\n<p>Haeger and Towey each agreed to wear the winning team&#8217;s college jersey on the first day of training camp this summer. Haeger intends to see Towey sporting an NAU Lumberjacks jersey, while Towey hopes Haeger will don the Bearcats jersey.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the first friendly rivalry between the two institutions.\u00a0<em>Sports Illustrated<\/em>\u00a0ranks Saint Vincent, located about 50 miles from Pittsburgh, as the No. 1 training camp in the NFL, while NAU is ranked third.<\/p>\n<p>The Arizona Cardinals Super Bowl run started six months ago on the practice field on the campus of Northern Arizona University.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nau.newtier.com\/index.php?module=pnNews&amp;tid=18&amp;sid=2742\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/u-bet-haeger-wagers-on-cardinals-victory-with-pa-counterpart\/\">NAU President\u00a0John Haeger\u00a0has entered into a friendly wager with Saint Vincent College President Jim Towey over the outcome of this weekend&#8217;s Super Bowl game in Tampa. The game pits the Arizona Cardinals against the Pittsburgh Steelers. NAU has hosted the Cardinals&#8217; summer training camp since the team arrived in Arizona in 1988. The Steelers have&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":11969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}