{"id":26498,"date":"2013-09-13T11:36:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T18:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=26498"},"modified":"2013-09-20T10:25:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T17:25:24","slug":"football-returns-to-the-skydome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/football-returns-to-the-skydome\/","title":{"rendered":"Football returns to the pines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><em>By Jerome Souers,<br \/>\nHead Football Coach<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Coachsouers\">@CoachSouers<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NAU_Football\">@NAU_Football<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On behalf of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nauathletics.com\/sports\/fball\/index\">NAU Football<\/a>, I would like to welcome back all our returning students, faculty and staff, and send a special greeting to those joining us for the first time. I can assure you, you\u2019re going to love\u00a0your experience at Northern Arizona University!<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what you can look forward to as football returns to the Skydome this month:<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #61003d;\"><strong>Traditions<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/show-your-pride-on-nau-true-blue-fridays\/\">True Blue Fridays<br \/>\n<\/a>In Lumberjack Country, we wear blue on Fridays. I encourage all those on campus, in the community and beyond to proudly wear your navy on Fridays, and blue and gold on game days.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.10151262410059809.535723.124617604808&amp;type=3\">Running of the Freshmen<br \/>\n<\/a>This is my favorite NAU tradition. At the first home game of the season, the newest Lumberjacks paint themselves in blue and gold, dress up in their best NAU garb and run on to the field just ahead of the football team. It\u2019s truly a rush for our students and football players to kick off the season as one.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nauathletics.com\/sports\/fball\/2013-14\/schedule\">Game Day<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/a>Never in the history of the Big Sky Conference has the football competition been so strong. We return a great team led by veterans who are looking not only to improve upon last year\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nauathletics.com\/sports\/fball\/2012-13\/releases\/20130107g81zky\">8-win season<\/a>, but to win the Big Sky Conference championship and compete in the National Championship Playoff.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-26613\" alt=\"Football\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Football-.jpg\" width=\"671\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2013\/09\/Football-.jpg 3000w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2013\/09\/Football--300x60.jpg 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2013\/09\/Football--1024x204.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 671px) 100vw, 671px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As your hometown team, we need your support. Our first home game of the season is <a href=\"http:\/\/nau.ticketforce.com\/eventperformances.asp?evt=288\">Saturday, Sept. 21, vs. South Dakota<\/a>. If you are able to be here, we need you. Every person plays a part in supporting our program and our players. From the Lumberyard to the end zones to the bleachers, help fill the Dome, make some noise and give us that home field advantage.<\/p>\n<p>This will be a great year for NAU Athletics. Come out early to get your game day started at FanFest and then cheer on your hometown team. It\u2019s time for college football!<\/p>\n<p>Go Jacks!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/football-returns-to-the-skydome\/\">By Jerome Souers, Head Football Coach @CoachSouers @NAU_Football On behalf of NAU Football, I would like to welcome back all our returning students, faculty and staff, and send a special greeting to those joining us for the first time. I can assure you, you\u2019re going to love\u00a0your experience at Northern Arizona University! Here\u2019s what you&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":26684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[459,460,461,458],"class_list":["post-26498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views-from-nau","tag-nau-athletics","tag-nau-football","tag-school-spirit","tag-true-blue-nau"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26498","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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}