{"id":630265,"date":"2023-02-03T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T20:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=630265"},"modified":"2023-02-13T20:49:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T20:49:06","slug":"birmingham-bulls-continuing-to-reach-new-generation-of-hockey-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/birmingham-bulls-continuing-to-reach-new-generation-of-hockey-fans","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham Bulls continuing to reach new generation of hockey fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ( WIAT ) &#8212; The night before his wedding, Matthew Ford was at the Pelham Civic Complex, cheering on the Birmingham Bulls as they faced the Pensacola Ice Flyers. Ford is a lifelong hockey follower and was one of the first fans to buy season tickets for the current Bulls franchise when they started in 2017. He found a clever way to not miss his local hockey franchise while preparing for his wedding. On December 28, 2018, Ford&#8217;s party rented out the complex&#8217;s corporate suite so they could have their rehearsal dinner and watch the game. He&#8217;s not the only Bulls supporter to make the franchise an important part of their life. The rise and fall of Rex Vulcan: How the bitter cold ended Birmingham&#8217;s Mardi Gras Kevin Deerman proposed to his girlfriend on January 28, 2022, when the Bulls matched up against the Roanoke Rail Yard Dawgs. The Bulls front office made sure a camera was pointed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) &#8212; The night before his wedding, Matthew Ford was at the Pelham Civic Complex, cheering on the Birmingham Bulls as they faced the Pensacola Ice Flyers.&#160; Ford<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nhl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}