{"id":920751,"date":"2026-10-04T21:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T21:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/920751\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T21:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T21:40:09","slug":"benson-retrieves-opening-kick-tee-at-bills-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/920751\/","title":{"rendered":"Benson retrieves opening kick tee at Bills game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m running out on the field today to grab the kickoff tee, so hopefully I don\u2019t trip,\u201d Benson joked in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BuffaloBills\/status\/2106814546459472017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">social media video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His new mohawk even got a compliment from Bills offensive lineman Spencer Brown.<\/p>\n<p>When the time came, Benson jogged out onto the field, looking like a pro, to grab the tee. No trips.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/ukko-pekka-luukkonen-8480045\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/konsta-helenius-8484797\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Konsta Helenius<\/a>\u00a0joined Benson at Sunday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p>Benson and the Sabres will move back to the ice on Tuesday when they host the Minnesota Wild (7 p.m. ET; MINNHL, Wild+, MSG-B).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m running out on the field today to grab the kickoff tee, so hopefully I don\u2019t trip,\u201d Benson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":920752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-920751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920751","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=920751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}