{"id":433413,"date":"2026-08-15T03:10:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T03:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/433413\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T03:10:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T03:10:21","slug":"47-year-old-man-joins-san-jose-city-college-football-team-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/433413\/","title":{"rendered":"47-year-old man joins San Jose City College football team \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A South Bay pastor made his college football comeback at the age of 47.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Buzzard, 47, joined the San Jose City College football team, the Jaguars.<\/p>\n<p>Buzzard was inspired to try after seeing a social media video of a man in his 60s playing football in the East Coast. He reached out to a coach at SJCC, and after giving it some thought, he decided to go for it and he made it.<\/p>\n<p>Buzzard joined NBC Bay Area\u2019s Raj Mathai to talk more about his new path. Watch the full interview in the video above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A South Bay pastor made his college football comeback at the age of 47. Justin Buzzard, 47, joined&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-433413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}