Peterson said when he was learning about Ipswich “it was a bit like looking into a mirror” with his local American football team, the Nebraska Cornhuskers.<\/p>\n
“They’ve got that Tractor Boys nickname, and coming from a big agricultural state like Nebraska, that immediately clicked.<\/p>\n
“It’s a blue-collar, hardworking identity that isn’t trying to be something it’s not. <\/p>\n
“When I was watching [the pitch celebrations and parade highlights], it was obvious to me just how much that club means to the people over there. <\/p>\n
“I can definitely identify with that level of passion and loyalty.”<\/p>\n
He also recently wore his Town top to a family birthday party, which led to many questions and him being able to share the club more widely. <\/p>\n
Asked if he would be flying across the pond to watch a match next season, Peterson said he was not sure, but would not turn down the opportunity if it did arise. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peterson said when he was learning about Ipswich “it was a bit like looking into a mirror” with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-579466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}