{"id":727588,"date":"2026-06-10T14:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/727588\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T14:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:47:09","slug":"scottish-national-team-experiences-american-football-with-the-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/727588\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish national team experiences American football with the Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was also the general vibe around the two-hour practice that caters to an offseason 90-man roster. World Cup rosters <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/story\/_\/id\/48757621\/2026-world-cup-squad-lists-players-announced-all-48-teams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">consist of 26 players<\/a>, and the average MLS roster is 20-30 players.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Honestly, I didn&#8217;t really know what to expect, but it was nothing like what I expected,&#8221; admitted Hirst.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just the music going off, the different teams and the different sides of the game, it&#8217;s completely different to f\u00fatbol in so many different ways. But all the guys that we&#8217;ve met have been so nice, chatty, friendly, it&#8217;s been wicked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>OK, so the Bojangles is a new twist, and the weather and general structure of a football practice were different. Surely, though, a group of athletes who kick a ball for the entire game would feel more comfortable kicking, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was also the general vibe around the two-hour practice that caters to an offseason 90-man roster. World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[38807,64,63,596,1347,85,13093],"class_list":["post-727588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-app-news","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-latest-news","tag-sports","tag-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}