{"id":8128,"date":"2023-02-13T14:18:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T19:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=7875"},"modified":"2023-02-13T14:18:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T19:18:50","slug":"nick-bolton-scores-first-mizzou-super-bowl-touchdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2023\/02\/13\/nick-bolton-scores-first-mizzou-super-bowl-touchdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Bolton scores first Mizzou Super Bowl touchdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/img_19983493.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/img_19983493-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Nick Bolton scoring a touchdown in the Super Bowl.\" class=\"wp-image-7878\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Nick Bolton&#8217;s Super Bowl touchdown (photo credit: Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to Nick Bolton, who became the first Mizzou Football alum to score a touchdown in the Super Bowl. Bolton\u2019s scoop-and-score helped the Kansas City Chiefs tie the game against the Philadelphia Eagles. Bolton finished with a game-high nine tackles \u2013 ultimately propelling the Chiefs to victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kansas City is just down the road from Columbia. The connections between Mizzou and Chiefs football run even deeper:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Head coach Andy Reid was the offensive line coach at Mizzou from 1989-91.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Assistant head coach and special teams coordinator Dave Toub was an MU coach for more than a decade.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Assistant special teams coach Andy Hill was a longtime assistant coach.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tight end Kendall Blanton is on the Chiefs practice squad.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/1020_fb_vsMEM_cl_2335-scaled-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Nick Bolton playing for Mizzou Football.\" class=\"wp-image-7915\" srcset=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/1020_fb_vsMEM_cl_2335-scaled-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/1020_fb_vsMEM_cl_2335-scaled-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/1020_fb_vsMEM_cl_2335-scaled-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/1020_fb_vsMEM_cl_2335-scaled-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/1020_fb_vsMEM_cl_2335-scaled-1-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bolton as a Tiger.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is also the third consecutive year a former Tiger has played on a Super Bowl championship team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I applaud Bolton \u2013 and all of Chiefs Kingdom \u2013 for a historic win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014 Mun<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Nick Bolton, who became the first Mizzou Football alum to score a touchdown in the Super Bowl. Bolton\u2019s scoop-and-score helped the Kansas City Chiefs tie the game against the Philadelphia Eagles. Bolton finished with a game-high nine tackles \u2013 ultimately propelling the Chiefs to victory. Kansas City is just down the road from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}