{"id":6705,"date":"2014-05-07T06:49:37","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T10:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=6705"},"modified":"2014-05-07T08:41:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T12:41:19","slug":"emmitt-smith-loves-the-dukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=6705","title":{"rendered":"Emmitt Smith Loves the Dukes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Pro Football Hall of Fame RB Emmitt Smith has a luxury box in Bridgeforth Stadium. His wife is a JMU alum <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23JMUfacts&amp;src=hash\">#JMUfacts<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/KsGOklc2b6\">pic.twitter.com\/KsGOklc2b6<\/a> \u2014 JMU Facts (@JMU_Facts) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JMU_Facts\/statuses\/463773054573608960\">May 6, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Emmitt Smith is the NFL&#8217;s all time rushing king. The former Dallas Cowboys and Arizona Cardinal running back rushed for\u00a0a record 18,355 yards in his 15 year career. He&#8217;s also married to a JMU alum and apparently a die-hard Dukes fan. And by die-hard Dukes fan, we mean that he has a luxury box at Bridgeforth Stadium. Or at least that&#8217;s what we read on Twitter. And it&#8217;s a Wednesday in May, and we have nothing else to discuss, so let&#8217;s just go with it. This particular little nugget comes to us via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JMU_Facts\">@JMU_Facts<\/a>. Obviously we did nothing to verify the claim because that would be hard. We can vouch for the fact that @JMU_Facts tweets things that are usually interesting and funny.\u00a0A few of them might even be true. If this one isn&#8217;t and we get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n0yIqeURE2o\">debacled<\/a>\u00a0for spreading it, so be it. We can at least vouch for the fact that Emmitt Smith has been spotted in Bridgeforth and around the &#8216;burg on JMU gamedays. We even have a great story about a friend of ours asking Emmitt a rather odd\u00a0question about Moose Johnston&#8217;s, um, \u00a0locker room presence. It&#8217;s completely inappropriate and un-bloggable, but ask us about it at a tailgate and we&#8217;ll tell you over a beer. In any case, if nothing else this entire post really serves to remind us all about one very important fact, that the Cowboys suck.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D6705&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro Football Hall of Fame RB Emmitt Smith has a luxury box in Bridgeforth Stadium. His wife is a JMU alum #JMUfacts pic.twitter.com\/KsGOklc2b6 \u2014 JMU Facts (@JMU_Facts) May 6, 2014 Emmitt Smith is the NFL&#8217;s all time rushing king. The former Dallas Cowboys and Arizona Cardinal running back rushed for\u00a0a record 18,355 yards in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1213,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=1213","url_meta":{"origin":6705,"position":0},"title":"Quick Thoughts on Meet the Dukes Day","date":"August 22, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I made the trip back to the 'burg on Saturday for \"Meet the Dukes Day\". It was a fun day and I was happy to get my first look at the Bridgeforth improvements and the 2010 Dukes. Here are some quick observations in no particular order. 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