{"id":279024,"date":"2025-11-12T21:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/279024\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T21:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:51:09","slug":"bills-just-signed-an-nfl-veteran-who-owns-a-french-bulldog-that-won-the-national-dog-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/279024\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills just signed an NFL veteran who owns a French bulldog that won the National Dog Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NFL teams sign new players all the time. The bottom portions of rosters are always shifting.<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes, an interesting detail catches the eye. That&#8217;s what happened when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/buffalo-bills\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Bills<\/a> signed Morgan Fox to the practice squad on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Fox is a 6-foot-3 defensive end who has played in 120 NFL games and recorded 27.5 sacks. Not a bad addition.<\/p>\n<p>But tucked into the information packet the Bills put out on Fox was this:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Co-owner of a French bulldog named Winston, who competed in numerous shows. He won Best in Show by the American Kennel Club at the 2022 National Dog Show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well that&#8217;s pretty darn cool.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Winston:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">WINSTON THE FRENCHIE WINNING THE 2022 NATIONAL DOG SHOW IS SO DESERVED I LOVE YOU WINSTON <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jU5dfnThWn\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/jU5dfnThWn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 charlotte \ud83e\uddf8 (@buckysackles) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/buckysackles\/status\/1595854345899212801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/new-york-giants\/news\/jameis-winston-sings-hamilton-lyrics-1st-qb-start-new-york-giants\/c4e37416722461fe76b94f89\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jameis Winston sings &#8216;Hamilton&#8217; lyrics before first start with New York Giants<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Winston was 3 years old when he took home the national title.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is a show dog with personality and beauty and a perfect fit for the breed,&#8221; said Vicki Seiler-Cushman, the best in show judge, in a statement when Winston won. &#8220;He has a razzle dazzle that says, &#8216;I am here to win tonight.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/article\/2022\/11\/25\/winston-the-french-bulldog-has-won-the-national-dog-show\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">According to Oregon Public Broadcasting<\/a>, Fox helped raise Winston as a puppy, and during the show, an announcer said that Winston &#8220;runs like a little linebacker.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Does any of that matter to Fox&#8217;s NFL career and chances of helping the Bills? Probably not.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s awesome.<\/p>\n<p>More NFL news:<\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL teams sign new players all the time. The bottom portions of rosters are always shifting. But sometimes,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-279024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}