  {"id":99177,"date":"2024-12-04T21:47:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T21:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=99177"},"modified":"2024-12-04T21:58:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T21:58:25","slug":"friday-send-off-saturday-watch-party-how-you-can-cheer-on-rhody-footballs-fcs-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2024\/12\/friday-send-off-saturday-watch-party-how-you-can-cheer-on-rhody-footballs-fcs-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday send-off, Saturday watch party: How you can cheer on Rhody football\u2019s FCS run"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Dec. 4, 2024 \u2013 Rhode Island\u2019s historic football season continues Saturday when the Rams\u2014who are 11-2 on the season and ranked 10th in the country\u2014travel to Georgia to play No. 7 Mercer in the second round of the national FCS playoffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rhody fans are invited to a team send-off Friday at 9:30 a.m. at the Ryan Center Ram Lot, and to a game watch party at the Ryan Center on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The football game between äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ and Mercer will kick off at 2 p.m. and be televised on ESPN+.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to the football watch party, the äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ men\u2019s basketball team will play its highly anticipated game against in-state rival Providence College. Fans with a ticket to the men\u2019s basketball game can remain in their seat following the conclusion of the contest to partake in the football game watch party. Those without a men\u2019s basketball game ticket will be able to enter the Ryan Center for the watch party immediately after the basketball game has ended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Football Team Send-Off<\/strong><br><strong>&#8211; <\/strong>Friday, Dec. 6<br><strong>&#8211; <\/strong>Ryan Center Ram Lot<br><strong>&#8211; <\/strong>9:30 a.m.<br><strong>&#8211; <\/strong>Show your support for the football team as it departs campus for its second-round game. Wear Rhody colors and cheer on the Rams as they board the bus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Game Watch Party<\/strong><br><strong>&#8211; <\/strong>Saturday, Dec. 7<br><strong>&#8211; <\/strong>Ryan Center<br><strong>&#8211; <\/strong>Kickoff is 2 p.m. The watch party will begin immediately following the conclusion of the home men\u2019s basketball against Providence College. The watch party is free and open to the public. Concession stands will be open for the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fans are encouraged to enjoy a full day of Rhody pride. A limited number of tickets for the men\u2019s basketball clash with PC are still <a href=\"https:\/\/uritix.evenue.net\/list\/MBB\">available for purchase<\/a>. The Rams are off to an 8-0 start as they enter the annual battle for Ocean State bragging rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Dec. 4, 2024 \u2013 Rhode Island\u2019s historic football season continues Saturday when the Rams\u2014who are 11-2 on the season and ranked 10th in the country\u2014travel to Georgia to play No. 7 Mercer in the second round of the national FCS playoffs. Rhody fans are invited to a team send-off Friday at 9:30 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":99178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99181,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99177\/revisions\/99181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}