{"id":2023,"date":"2013-12-07T14:16:29","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T19:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2013-12-07T14:16:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T19:16:29","slug":"smu-scoreboard-shows-fireplace-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/2013\/12\/07\/smu-scoreboard-shows-fireplace-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"SMU scoreboard shows fireplace (photo)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/10\/BlakeBortles.jpg\" alt=\"BlakeBortles\" width=\"548\" height=\"317\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/10\/BlakeBortles.jpg 548w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/10\/BlakeBortles-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s unusual weather in Dallas and thus fans have stayed away from Saturday&#8217;s game between the SMU Mustangs and the UCF Knights.<\/p>\n<p>UCF is looking to win over SMU to a BCS bowl but fans are simply not in attendance even with a decision to let them in for free.<\/p>\n<p>So what did the stadium staff at SMU do? They displayed vide of a fireplace on their scoreboard.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>RT <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/osmattmurschel\">@osmattmurschel<\/a>: SMU uses Jumbotron fire to warm up fans. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23ucf&amp;src=hash\">#ucf<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/80IEeFxWPQ\">http:\/\/t.co\/80IEeFxWPQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Paul Tenorio (@osknights) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/osknights\/statuses\/409393155989962752\">December 7, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Now that&#8217;s great. With some considering Blake Bortles the No. 1 QB in the draft it will be interesting to see how the UCF signal caller handles the cold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s unusual weather in Dallas and thus fans have stayed away from Saturday&#8217;s game between the SMU Mustangs and the UCF Knights. UCF is looking to win over SMU to a BCS bowl but fans are simply not in attendance even with a decision to let them in for free. So what did the stadium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"coauthors":[7],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaafb-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}