{"id":143212,"date":"2026-03-19T22:54:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/143212\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T22:54:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:54:19","slug":"readings-new-arena-football-team-finalizes-schedule-adds-first-two-players-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/143212\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading\u2019s new arena football team finalizes schedule, adds first two players | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

READING, Pa. – Things are heating up for Reading’s new arena football team.<\/p>\n

The Pennsylvania Benjamins gave an update on the team today.<\/p>\n

Their schedule is officially set… and will include 12 games — six at home and six away.<\/p>\n

The first is planned for April 26th at the Santander Arena.<\/p>\n

The team will consist of 30 players — two were announced today.<\/p>\n

\"Pennsylvania<\/p>\n

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WFMZ-TV | Jace Codi<\/p>\n

The linebacker and wide receiver both played football for West Chester University.<\/p>\n

The team says it’s ready to start making an impact on the community.<\/p>\n

“You’re gonna see a lot more of us in the city… once everything get settled,” says Gregg Fornario, General Manager for the Pennsylvania Benjamins.<\/p>\n

The Benjamins will host another try-out this Sunday at Alvernia at noon.<\/p>\n

Season tickets are on sale now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – Things are heating up for Reading’s new arena football team. The Pennsylvania Benjamins gave an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[65518,61923,736,128,130,129,12565,65519,65521,65520,12916],"class_list":["post-143212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-arena-football","tag-pennsylvania-benjamins","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-santander-arena","tag-season-tickets","tag-sports-schedule","tag-try-out","tag-west-chester-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}