{"id":110565,"date":"2026-09-04T20:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T20:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=110565"},"modified":"2026-09-04T20:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T20:00:21","slug":"uri-football-welcome-back-game-sept-12-faculty-staff-discount-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2026\/09\/uri-football-welcome-back-game-sept-12-faculty-staff-discount-available\/","title":{"rendered":"URI Football Welcome Back Game, Sept. 12: Faculty\/Staff discount available"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Sept. 4, 2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2026\/09\/Rhody-Football-Graphic-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-110566\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.799801632715343;width:419px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2026\/09\/Rhody-Football-Graphic-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2026\/09\/Rhody-Football-Graphic-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2026\/09\/Rhody-Football-Graphic-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2026\/09\/Rhody-Football-Graphic-364x455.jpg 364w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2026\/09\/Rhody-Football-Graphic-500x625.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2026\/09\/Rhody-Football-Graphic.jpg 936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dear Faculty and Staff,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Welcome back to campus! We invite you and your family to join us for URI Football\u2019s <strong>Welcome Back Game on Saturday, Sept. 12, at 12 p.m.,<\/strong>&nbsp;as the Rams take on Elon at <strong>Centerville Bank Stadium in Pawtucket<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following back-to-back CAA Football championships, the defending conference champion Rams are ready to kick off the 2026 season, and we want our URI community there to cheer them on!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are offering <strong>discounted tickets to all URI faculty and staff<\/strong> for the Welcome Back Game. Bring your family, friends and fellow Rams and help us pack Centerville Bank Stadium for the season opener.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uritix.evenue.net\/promotions\/URIFS\"><strong>Use this link to purchase your discounted tickets.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We hope to see you there and start the new academic year by cheering on Rhody Football!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Go Rhody!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">University of Rhode Island Athletics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 4, 2026 Dear Faculty and Staff, Welcome back to campus! We invite you and your family to join us for URI Football\u2019s Welcome Back Game on Saturday, Sept. 12, at 12 p.m.,&nbsp;as the Rams take on Elon at Centerville Bank Stadium in Pawtucket. Following back-to-back CAA Football championships, the defending conference champion Rams are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[1857,1858,1856],"class_list":["post-110565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-message","tag-audience-faculty","tag-audience-staff","tag-audience-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110565","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=110565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110567,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110565\/revisions\/110567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}