{"id":270156,"date":"2026-08-22T12:36:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T12:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/270156\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T12:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T12:36:27","slug":"fred-biletnikoff-continues-tradition-of-giving-back-to-erie-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/270156\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Biletnikoff Continues Tradition of Giving Back to Erie | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erie native and NFL Hall of Famer Fred Biletnikoff never forgets about his alma mater this time of year.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"ice cream.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1151\" height=\"571\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>As the Erie Royals wrapped up football camp, Biletnikoff once again provided ice cream treats for the team, courtesy of Smiley\u2019s Ice Cream Truck.<\/p>\n<p>After weeks of hard work and preparation, the sweet treat gave players a chance to cool off and celebrate \u2014 while being remembered by one of Erie\u2019s greatest football stars and the MVP of Super Bowl XI.<\/p>\n<p>The Royals will open their regular season one week from today at Erie Veterans Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erie native and NFL Hall of Famer Fred Biletnikoff never forgets about his alma mater this time of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,113943,77637,99464,40942,113944,113946,113945],"class_list":["post-270156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-erie-royals","tag-football-camp","tag-fred-biletnikoff","tag-ice-cream","tag-nfl-hall-of-famer","tag-smiley","tag-super-bowl-xi-mvp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270156","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=270156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}