{"id":119487,"date":"2026-01-12T00:55:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T00:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/119487\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T00:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T00:55:18","slug":"local-official-makes-bet-on-steelers-playoff-game-with-houston-area-judge-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/119487\/","title":{"rendered":"Local official makes bet on Steelers playoff game with Houston-area judge \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH  \u2014 One local official has made a friendly wager with a Houston-area official ahead of the Steelers playoff game against the Texans on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato and Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo are in on the wager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">If the Steelers win on Monday, Judge Hidalgo will have to dress in Steelers\u2019 gear and send County Executive Innamorato a NASA jacket. If the Texans win, County Executive Innamorato will don Texans\u2019 merchandise and send Judge Hidalgo a Steel City jacket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re excited to welcome the Texans to a rowdy Acrisure Stadium on Monday night. As you undoubtedly saw when we defeated the Ravens, the Steel Curtain is ready for anything the Texans throw at us,\u201d Innamorato said. \u201d I\u2019m confident Judge Hidalgo will enjoy wearing some black and gold in the near future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Judge Hidalgo feels just as confident about her team. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s great that the Pittsburgh Steelers think they have a shot against our Texans in the Wild Card Round! I look forward to seeing County Executive Innamorato in blue and red at a public address,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Channel 11 will be the best place for live pregame and postgame coverage as the Steelers return to the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">We will be live, getting fans ready for the first home playoff game in five years, starting at 4 p.m. Monday. Then we\u2019ll be live again after the game ends with postgame coverage starting at 11:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 One local official has made a friendly wager with a Houston-area official ahead of the Steelers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[52128,545,300,40305,56,58,57,404,23510,52131,12759,52127,10245,4842,52130,52129],"class_list":["post-119487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-allegheny-county-executive","tag-bet","tag-football","tag-harris-county-judge","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-lina-hidalgo","tag-nfl-playoffs","tag-pgh","tag-playoffs","tag-sara-innamorato","tag-steelers","tag-texans","tag-wager","tag-wildcard-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}