{"id":176025,"date":"2026-04-25T19:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T19:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176025\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T19:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T19:55:09","slug":"pittsburgh-close-to-breaking-all-time-nfl-draft-attendance-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176025\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh close to breaking all-time NFL Draft attendance record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tVisitPittsburgh and Pittsburgh Regional Transit are urging residents and visitors to make their way to the North Shore as the city inches closer to breaking an all-time attendance record at the NFL Draft. RELATED: Football fans flock to Point State Park for final day of NFL draft in PittsburghIn an email sent to Pittsburgh&#8217;s Action News 4, VisitPGH said as the city approaches the end of the draft, they are making a &#8220;final call-to-action&#8221; to get one final surge of fans to attend and set a new record. &#8220;This is a moment Pittsburgh can own \u2014 together,&#8221; VisitPGH said. Pittsburgh Regional Transit said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, &#8220;We need YOU to get on the T, a Football Flyer, or your local bus route and get your butt down to the North Shore so we can break the all-time NFL Draft attendance record!&#8221; On the first day of the NFL Draft, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced that 320,000 people attended the first day of the Draft in Pittsburgh.Looking for more news in your area | Subscribe to the WTAE YouTube Channel\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tPITTSBURGH \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>VisitPittsburgh and Pittsburgh Regional Transit are urging residents and visitors to make their way to the North Shore as the city inches closer to breaking an all-time attendance record at the NFL Draft. <\/p>\n<p>RELATED: Football fans flock to Point State Park for final day of NFL draft in Pittsburgh<\/p>\n<p>In an email sent to Pittsburgh&#8217;s Action News 4, VisitPGH said as the city approaches the end of the draft, they are making a &#8220;final call-to-action&#8221; to get one final surge of fans to attend and set a new record. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a moment Pittsburgh can own \u2014 together,&#8221; VisitPGH said. <\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh Regional Transit said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, &#8220;We need YOU to get on the T, a Football Flyer, or your local bus route and get your butt down to the North Shore so we can break the all-time NFL Draft attendance record!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>On the first day of the NFL Draft, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/nfl-draft-pittsburgh-crowd-record\/71114648\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">320,000 people attended the first day of the Draft<\/a> in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for more news in your area | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WTAE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe to the WTAE YouTube Channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VisitPittsburgh and Pittsburgh Regional Transit are urging residents and visitors to make their way to the North Shore&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[900,894,78791,14827,68087,40026,77391,3537,14131,73,75,74,2187,78792,33982,4628,24378,2707,78790,8445],"class_list":{"0":"post-176025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-action-news","9":"tag-allegheny-county","10":"tag-city-inch","11":"tag-email","12":"tag-final-day","13":"tag-first-day","14":"tag-football-fan","15":"tag-nfl-draft","16":"tag-north-shore","17":"tag-pittsburgh","18":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","19":"tag-pittsburgh-news","20":"tag-pittsburgh-regional-transit","21":"tag-pittsburghin","22":"tag-point-state-park","23":"tag-prt","24":"tag-visit-pittsburgh","25":"tag-visitor","26":"tag-visitpgh","27":"tag-visitpittsburgh"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176025","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=176025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}